Christmas Gift Suggestions

SIMPLE & TRUE GIFTS

To your enemy, forgiveness

To an oppenent, tolerance

To a friend, your heart

To a customer, service

To all, charity

To every child, a good example

To yourself, respect

A Future Leader ?????????

My handsome man was Flag boy last week @ his school. He did a great job holding that flag high and proud. He said to me " MOM I am the leader and everyone must follow me". He is really loving school.
xx
Erin

Sunglasses and all he still looks like a darn good leader.......................

Mountain Time

We decided after the hard work and the feast we had it sounded great to get away & relax. So we headed up north for the long Thanksgiving weekend with my Mom, Dad, Sister & her family and of course the turkey left overs. It was so beautiful and cold. The Valley has been very warm so it was a treat. We pulled up to our cabin to be greeted by 3 deer chilling out in the open lot right next to our front door. What a way to start a weekend. Seeing wildlife is always so fun. Dylan gets so excited. This lot used to be full of trees but as you can see it is open now due to a fire that almost took our cabin. We had a great visit. You know me always on the go and busy, I did not relax that much. I ended up giving 4 pedicures,1 color & 3 haircuts. We had yet another feast of turkey leftover's on Friday and had a delicious prime rib dinner thanks to my brother-in-law Dave on Saturday evening. Food was muum muum yum. Jeff & Dave cut down our huge mesquite tree that we lost from the fire and then yes Sunday came and we had to come back to reality. I sure do miss the sound of the pines swaying in the wind.

Prime Rib Feast

Michael driving Mr Dylan-they thought they were the bomb 4x4 ing tractor style.

Cutie pies

Our poor tree-one last photo

the boy's taking a breakfrom the out doors


I still have more to come-I'll be baaaack.....

I'M A SLACKER.... So much to catch up on.........

Where to start...... Thanksgiving we hosted dinner at our house for 11 people. Had a lot of family come & go, at one point I had 20 people in my house. Normally I would be saying I need a bigger house but not this time. It was nice to see everyone in the same room and everybody visiting together. I said to my self "SELF" "the size of the house you live in is not what is important it's the love the fills the home and the comfort your guest feel in your home is what makes it special". It was a beautiful day and I hope that everyone had a good time. We were so glad Devin & Colton could visit-it was so nice to see you both.

The Host's

Table & Flowers

The Turkey Carver's (Jeff & brother-in-law Dave)

THE GUEST

Dylan with his Nana. G

Nana. L & Michael (my nephew)

Erin & Maura w/our boys

Dylan & Devin(my nephew from Alaksa)

Colton (my nephew from Alaska)
Ryan & Brennan(my brother-in-laws)

Ryan, Linda & my Dad

As you can see we were all so stuffed from dinner no one had the energy to take photos after dinner, wish I would have thought to catch one of the crowd of 20. Oh well maybe next year!

I will be back to post more.

xx

Erin

BUBBLE FUN

Dylan & I making bubble faces during bath time.

Thank goodness tomorrow is Friday-it has been a long week!

:) Erin

Sunday @ the Bowling Alley w/Nana & Poppie

On Sunday we went bowling with my parents unfortunately Jeff could not be there he had to fix a leaky tiolet at his Mom's house. :( Dylan did really well and had a lot of fun. We made sure they had the bumpers up so no gutter balls. Believe it or not Dylan did really good throwing the ball down the center, but I will say the bumpers helped my Mom & I out only a couple of times. We shared good laughter and had a lot of fun. Enjoy my snaps.

Dylan ready to knock'em down!

Nana patiently awaiting her turn

Dylan had a blast getting our balls for us- He is such a great helper!

Yes Dylan had a split and did a great job bumper free at getting the 2 pins down

Coach Poppie aka: The Peanut Gallary-Thanks Dad for all the Pointers and laughs. Your the bomb!

No lie on my part about my handsome man throwing down the center.

The bowling gang minus Mom.

Thanks Nana & Poppie for a fun day. Hope everyone is having a great week.

xx

Erin

Happy Birthday Mom/Nana

Wishing you many many more. We hope you have a great day and awesome year. You are the best in every way. I truely feel blessed & lucky to have such a wonderful Mom. You are my Mother, My Friend & My Hero Thank you for your love, support and all that you do for us.
We love you so much,
xoxoxo
Erin, Jeff & Dylan