2006 Favorite pictures!!!

These are some of my favorite pictures I have taken this year:

Jayda and the camera

Jayda grabbed grandma's camera and she was busy taking New Year's Eve pictures. She took pictures of SNUGGLES (the elderly cat who has 10 lives), JAKE (the blind fox terrier who keeps falling in to the neighbor's window well) GRANDMA (who was caught scrubbing the floorts) and JAYDA herself--her own self portrait!

Christmas2006

OK--I am never in the pictures, because I am the one who takes them. Here are a few scenes of the day. On Christmas day we had a big breakfast--using my new electric griddle. We all took a nap and then later went to the Wimmer's for Christmas dinner. We had ham, rolls, jello, funeral potatoes, etc. I was glad when it was over--as I was really tired. The frame shop was VERY busy with last minutes customer's who wanted"just a mat". DUH--time is up. Some people just never learn. "Well, what am I going to do?" I just have no answer to that one.....

Jayda's 5th Birthday Party

Jayda turned five years old---December 20th. We had the family over to celebrate with birthday cake and ice cream. She had really grown up fast.

Murphy Clan Christmas Party 2006

The Belliston's are certainly getting a work out when it comes to entertaining. We had the Murphy Christmas Party at their house. We had soups and salads and deserts, exchanged presents, visiting and went home!

Temple Square

We managed to squeeze in a short visit for Temple Square this year. It was very cold! We ate at the Training Table before we went to Temple Square. Natalie was at her Burn Unit Christmas party.

Thanksgiving @ Ashleigh's

Ashleigh had Thanksgiving at her house this year. What a relief for me--that relieved me from all of stress! I cooked the dressing, sweet potatoes, and cranberries. Jenny and Eric did the turkey and gravy, Ashleigh did the potatoes, and Natalie attempted to do the rolls.........

Ashleigh and Jenny made the pies. It was great.

Jayda's Halloween costume

This is one of many Jayda's Halloween costumes--Tinker Belle. She also has Ariel. She is getting ready for trick or treating......

Jennifer's 34th Birthday

October 29, 2006

Today we celebrated Natalie's belated birthday and Jenny's birthday. We had a spaghetti dinner at Ashleigh and Randy's house Sunday evening. Everyone exchanged gifts, and we had birthday cake with ice cream. Joel and I left early to get home to watch "Desperate Housewives". A great time was had by all. Natalie celebrated her 26th birthday in Palm Springs. I know--it's a hard life.

OH MY GOSH--Jenny's Halloween Party

OK--this was the best party yet! Everyone was dressed up, and Joel got the award for the best costume--he was the tooth fairy. He was not real happy about his costume-but he refused to go to the store with me to get an outfit. Randy was the mafia guy, Ashleigh was Medusa, Chloee and I were witches, Jenny was a 90's girl, Parker was Drucula and Olivia was a pony. Oh yeah-- How could we forget Natalie? She was Wonder Woman. Great food and fun was had by all!

Pumpkin Patch

Jenny, Joel, and I took the grandkids to the local pumpkin patch. The kids picked out their own pumpkins. Jayda missed her pre-school pumpkin patch visit because she was in California. The other grandkids had not gone yet--so it was perfect for us all to go.

Palm Springs

On Friday, we visited Becky one more time, and then had to leave to pick up Natalie at the Palm Springs airport. Her plane was on time, and Jayda was glad to see her and spend the weekend with her. We spent the weekend with the "Palm Springs boys"and had a wonderful time. The weather was in the high 80's, and we spent some of the time in the pool. I know, it was hard to take, but we made the best of it. We took Dave and Glenn to lunch at our favorite Japanese resturant for lunch on Saturday, and later that night we had a birthday dinner for Natalie, who spent her birthday by herself, as we were gone! We just relaxed and swam on Sunday, and we got ready to head home the next day. But Uncle LeRoy had to come over and do Joel's hair--with the highlights to cover the grey. The next day we drove to St. George, Utah to spend the night with my dad and Martha.

California Trip w/ Jayda

On October 18, we left for California to visit friends and relatives that we had not seen for quite a while. We arrived that night and stayed in Buena Park, right next to Knott's Berry Farm--which we did not have time to go to. The next day we went to see aunt Becky, who lives in an assisted living center, with husband Garland, who is in the rest home side of the facility. So was so happy to see us! We took her to lunch at Dukes, that is right on the shores of Huntington Beach. She had never been there before, even though she had lived in the area all her life. The food was yummy, and she was so glad to get out. Later that evening we went to visit Julie Brown in Cypress. She was glad to see us too. We talked about old times, family, and books, and how much we had all changed!