Happy Thanksgiving!

Our Thanksgiving holiday was great, we ate and spent time with both families and it was really fun. Here's the one picture we got of the entire event. Notice J's AWESOME mustache (which I'm so glad he shaved later that night). Oh, and I have changed my hair color, so this is the first picture of the dark-haired Karen.

More Tito Antics

Okay, so maybe our Boxer isn't the smartest dog around. We found him like this the other night. It may not be very clear from the picture, but Tito is actually stuck in the slipcover of our couch. See, it has/had a medium sized hole in it from Tito's younger days and he somehow got trapped in that hole. Poor thing, doesn't he look embarrassed!

What My Kitchen Looked Like on Sunday

My husband worked all day on Sunday to get the kitchen to this point.



Needless to say we ate out all weekend long. But it feels so much better, you probably can't appreciate that unless your kitchen, too, felt like it was a cave.

I love that my husband knows how to do all this stuff. He's the best! And with any luck we'll have a new ceiling before December :)

What My Kitchen Looked Like on Saturday

Our home was built in 1978 and for some reason there was a trend of building dropped ceilings to accommodate the ultra-hip flourescent lighting. Well, we are no longer trendy by the 1978 standard.



My husband spent all day Saturday tearing out the drywall & framing and rewiring all the electrical in the ceiling. It wasn't finished by the time he quit at 9 PM Saturday.

Heritage

We celebrated my grandmother's 80th birthday this month. This is a picture of (from right) my grandmother, mother and me.

This is a picture of (from left) my husband, me and my grandmother.

In the background is a quilt that my mom and her sisters had made with pictures of my grandmother and her offspring. It was a great night and I'm glad to have such a talented grandmother to look up to.

Catching Up

Here's a movie we took of Hikia on the trampoline ride-thing at Circus Circus. You probably can't tell from the clip, but the guy tells her it's time to get off and she keeps jumping :) That girl is adorable.

Catching Up

These are photos from when we went to Las Vegas to meet Kevin & Sara and the girls when they visited this summer. We met up with Paula & Adrien for dinner one night. We also went to the Circus Circus Adventurdome with the girls. The Adventurdome is built out of pink glass, that's why the photos at the bottom have that pinkish tint.

Catching Up

This is a picture from when Spencer was in Primary Children's Hospital after taking a tumble down the mountain. He broke his jaw and had to have it wired shut for a few weeks, but he's perfectly fine now! This happened a week or so before his birthday so he didn't get to eat any cake on his actual birthday. After they took the wires out my mom (grandma to Spencer) asked him what kind of cake he wanted now that he could eat. He asked her for "that Mexican sheep cake you make", turns out he meant "Texas sheet cake". I guess he was close enough! Cute.


We're so thankful he recovered well and was so strong through the whole thing. We love you, Spencer!

Fall

We took a drive through the canyon a few weeks ago and these are some pictures we took. Isn't Utah beautiful in the fall? We kind of missed the bright fall leaves, but the mountains are gorgeous no matter the season.

The Result

So this is what the end result looked like. I'm not the best photographer, especially when taking pictures at night, so sorry if these are blurry. I wished the white of the spider web was more noticeable, and all the big spiders fell down after they were taped up, so I'll have to figure out a solution for that next year. But I think it turned out well. What do you think?