Friday was Thanksgiving Feast at the kids school. We brought rolls and they were so yummy! It was multi-cultural so it was fun to try all the different food that families brought. Grammy even came to feast with us! :)

Friday night I went to the temple with the youth and when I got home my whole family was sleeping! I felt like such a party animal! :)

Saturday morning it was raining and we served! Jake was in charge and I have to admit he did a great job, ran so smoothly and we accomplished our goal of clearing off the ivy on the fence line at Placerita very quickly. Teamwork!

Jacque's shower was in the afternoon. She's having a GIRL! :) Sophi, Lucy, mom, Sierra and I went and enjoyed yummy food and company! I loved having Sierra there with me, she's so grown up! She is such a love! When we got home I needed to run to the store to get food for Sunday dinner. Mom said she would go with me and Ashton wanted to go too! He was SO happy the whole time! I think it was great that he had time alone with his dad! Time with daddy is so important!
Made pumpkin bread for my beehives. Taught them today! I love them!
Had Janelle, Terry, mom, Miriam and Melanie over tonight for dinner. Jake even started a fire in the fireplace, the first one of the season. It's been raining today, I LOVE IT!

Olympics 2010

Tonight I had a Young Women's activity to help at. My kids were good sports and joined me because Daddy is gone skiing in Mammoth. Ashton got to take part in the Luge and had a great time. Sierra got to also and they went much faster with her but she went later in the night and I didn't get a shot of her. She was all smiles though! :)

Light Painting...

Tonight I had the privilege of taking pictures of the Mia Maid's Light Painting. Bro. Brad Smith taught me how to set up my camera. I had half the girls and Bro. Smith took pics for the other half. It was so fun! The girl's were so clever! Here are a few...

Opening Social, Beach Party!

Today was the Young Men, Young Women Opening Social, Beach Day! We all went to Carpinteria and we had a beautiful day! The weather was on its best behavior today, not one cloud in the sky. We had so much fun!!! Love working with the youth, they always have the most fun! :) My assignment was to go early and get us a spot on the beach. My good and supportive husband came with me along with my children and we set up a couple of Easy Ups and blankets and got us a great spot. The Garcia's met us there to play and the Bartley's came too, along with the Almond's, Darrow's, Thompson's, Keil's...the activity was a great success...tons of families, youth leaders, youth...tons of fun! We played at the beach and several of the youth along with adults went on a 14 mile bike ride. I was going to go with the girls but one of the boy's didn't have a bike so I gave up my ride for him, so glad he could go and do it, so fun for these kids...so good for these kids. We just stayed at the beach and played and when they got back Brother Schramm fired up the BBQ and he and Kathie, other leaders and mom's contributed food and made dinner for everyone.

Roman buried the girls and then turned them into mermaids and then smashed their mermaid bodies by laying on top of them.

Have you ever seen a dirtier dad, he does not seem to mind being so dirty, so fun for the kids!

Elijah, Ashton, Asher

Tatiana, Ali, Sonora, Sierra and Brynn (quite the bathing beauties!) :)

We left about 7:00pm, right when everyone was getting ready to eat. We had been there since 12:00pm so we were ready, we got Carl's Jr. on the way home, not as good as a BBQ on the beach but we filled our tummies and straight to bed for kiddos when we got home.
WHAT A GREAT DAY!!!!