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A fun night at the Bellevue Botanical Garden!  We had a great time with David and Rebekah and the girls!

Thanksgiving 2011

Yeah!  New place for Thanksgiving!  Davids new house worked out perfect!  I see a new tradition in the works. Lots of room, big oven, and you can shoot out the back window!  Really! 

Great looking bird!  

The cooks in the kitchen working hard! 

Nothing better than a good game of Operation! 

Vincent working hard on a bench for the dinning room table!  Just in time!  

Happy bunch with a lot of food to eat!  It was so yummy!  David made some awesome gravy that had caramelized onions in it!  YUM!  He stuffed the Turkey with onions and it made it so juicy! 

Of course the hit of the night was the Janet Rolls. It was fun seeing on face book all my relatives around the country posting that they made Janet rolls also for dinner. Janet will never be forgotten!  Love you Janet!  

 David lives out in the country- well Northbend....close enough. Vincent and Gary brought a few pellet guns to shoot at David's house.  But there was a bad rain storm and it was crazy windy. So Vincent put out a few targets in Davids back yard and then went back inside and opened the window and started shooting. David said "Well why not?" and they all had a good time shooting out the window. 

Later David and Vincent and Rebekah went to try out Davids new 22 gun. The took a walk in the rain and went to a deserted area and shot a few rounds off. I think it was Davids first time shooting his new gun. Don't they look tough! 

We then made a big mess in the clean dinning room making gingerbread houses. I had to give up on mine, it would not stay put together!  Ugh!!! The candy was good. :-) 

Rebekah made a really good dessert. It was a whipped light lime goodness!  Very yummy!  Good job Rebekah! 

David also made a really good apple pie and pumpkin pie. The crust was awesome!  He used Vodka in it...Humm...

Nice work Natalie and Tiffany and Andrew! 

Time for a nap!  That means it was a good Thanksgiving!  

Very thankful for being able to spend the day with some of my family! I missed the rest but we were able to Skype with some of them. 

What did you do on 11-11-11?

11-11-11

Ashley and Scott got married!  

What a great time we had celebrating with them on the happy day. 

Ashley looked so happy and so Beautiful!  Just as I imagined!  Truly the Bell of the Ball. 

It was fun to see all my syblings at the party!  I love getting together with them all!  Too bad we are so far away from everyone!  

Grandkids together for a photo

Todd and Sharolyn

Scott and Jenn

Westra Family!  

David and Rebekah

Julie and Gary

The Reception!  

Allison hired a decorating company to dress up the church gym. Looks pretty good!  Best I have seen yet. even a chandelier in the middle!  

 They served cookies and milk at the party. 12 different types of cookies I think and then plain milk and chocolate milk. They were so good!  And they displayed the cookies so cleverly and cute. Good job Allison and Ashley! 

Red Velvet Wedding Cake was great!  

Ashley and Angela!  

Cindy Angela Steve

Daddy and Daughter

The crews after decorating the truck!  Very cool dudes....

We wish Ashley and Scotty a happy life together!  They have a great start for sure with lots of family support. Love you both!  

While we were in Vegas we also took the kids to the  Beatles "Love" show. It was awesome!  The boys loved it.  Andrew listens to the Beatles all the time on his iPod. I am so glad we were able to fit the show in. 

North Bend Views

Here are a few of my favorite photos from our trips to North Bend. 

The fall colors were great. 

I wish I could live down this lane. How fun would that be. I bet it looks great in the summer and winter also. I am sure the gardener is not too happy with the clean up he will have. 

 Rebekah met me and the boys for a quick family photo. I mean quick. It was a last minute idea to do this. They were not too happy with me. What else is new. 

Grandma and Grandpa loved the colors also. 

 Grandma really likes this little moss bump. It is cute. 

I took this photo with my phone of the same moss bump.