News Eve Memorial for DAD and MOM

This year it was even more special to take the candles to the cemetary and light them as it was in honor of both my DAD and my MOM. Mom passed away in May of 2009. I took the traditional little christmas tree (the one that mother always put on the grave for dad) and also a couple of candles. Pauline and Randy brought up the beautiful wreath. It is pretty cool to ride up there at night and see the candles burning and all lit up. We love Mom and Dad.

17 YEARS

It has been 17 years ago on
12 31 09 that my dad passed away.

We have always tried to take a candle
up and light it on New Years Eve in rememberance
of his passing. Jim is seen here trudging thru the snow and
lighting that candle. There was about three times more
snow the year that he passed away. I miss you Dad and
love you very much.

NEW TRADITION "CHEX"

This is something new that I tried this year. There are a ton of different Chex Mix recipies.
I made the traditional one first. You know the one with the garlic, worchestershire sauce, and nuts and things.
Turned out pretty yummy!
Then I tried this special K cereal thing that really did not look good, but it sure got eaten up pretty quickly.

Then I tried a new fruity type of chex. It consited of craisins, corn chex, yogurt covered raisins, dried apples and had a sweet kind of sticky stuff over it. It was actually pretty good. I really liked eating it and running into a dried, fruity, crunchy apple.

Thanks Chex for the awesome recipies.....go online to find more.....

CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATING

Contrary to some people's belief, I did put up a Christmas Tree this year.

Treyson and Rylee did the decorating. We used all of the ornaments that Jims aunt has given us over the year.

Aunt Marion gives each family an ornament each year and I have saved them all and put them on this year. It was a beautiful tree. Thanks for the tradition Aunt Marion.

Rylee is pretty proud. He really likes to decorate the tree.

Treyson also strikes a pose.

Just as a side note. See the pumpkin sticking up above the picture in the back?

Treyson was more than a little concerned that Grandma Shirlee still had some

Halloween stuff up. Oh well Halloween will be back next year, right?

Boys (and girl) night out

We were able to get some Weber State Basketball

Tickets from some friends of our (Thanks Patti and JD).

So Rylee took a friend and we headed out to the game.

It Started out at Wingers where the boys ate the big person

dinners and Jim and I shared an appetizer.

Then on to the game. The seats were awesome, about 6 rows up just behind Weber's team. As you can see the boys were pumped..

This was the score at half time. Weber did an awesome job.

Unfortunatley I let Rylee have the camera for a little bit.

This is his idea of a Basketball game.

Oh well we had a great time. Thanks again for the seats

and thanks for coming with us, Bridger.