Aren't they soooo cute!
That's my real sister Jen and all her kids and hubbie. Kraig is about to graduate from med school and become a real doctor. My dad sure lucked out with one daughter having a husband as a doctor and the other potentially having a husband as a dentist. They will be moving soon so that he can go into specialty school as a radiologist. Tons more years of schooling left! Poor guy (but not in the long run!). Hopefully we'll end up close to them, too.

 

That's me and Herb! He's such a sweetheart. His wife is my role model. They are my grandfather's siblings, so that makes Herb my great-uncle. But him and Carlynn are more like grandparents to me.

 

This is my dad, Robby, and step-mom, Trish. My dad looks like a goof-ball, but Trish looks really beautiful. They're a very handsome couple. And they're both very talented musically and totally into baseball (well, it's more like the Giants. But that's the only baseball out there! Right Dad?)

 

My dad is such a nut!
The top photos are him pretending to warm-up for his performance by imitating Jon's warm-ups before high jumping. It was hilarious! The bottom photos are of him singing a song about us for our reception. He did a really good job. He even got me to cry (but that's not too hard for him).

 

This is our first Christmas tree together. We love it. It smells wonderful and looks beautiful. And amazingly enough, all the decorations were bought at the dollar store. It was great!

 

These were all the attendants for Thanksgiving dinner: Jeff & Jon (who got some football video games in), Dorsey & Rachelle, Eric & Lincoln, & Romeo. It was a great group of loved ones.

 

What a marvelous Thanksgiving dinner it turned out to be! Jon and I are really starting to get the hang of this. It's been fun hosting it for the last two years. This is what we had: before snack was quiche (Dorsey); dinner had turkey (Jon), gravy (Rachelle & Eric), mashed potatoes (Eric), stuffing (Jeff), cranberry sauce (Dorsey), candied yams (Rachelle), green bean casserole (Rachelle), rolls (Eric), sparkling apple cider (Eric); and dessert included pumpkin pie (Jon), wonder bars (Dorsey), and chocolate peanut butter bars (Eric). I miss it already!

 

Lincoln's first Thanksgiving. He was bummed cuz he could only have milk!

 

Here's the fam for Halloween! Jon & I had matching shirts that had Snoopy and the gang all dressed up for Halloween on them.

 

Lincoln was the cutest pumpkin for Halloween! Our ward celebrated Halloween by having different groups of people decorate rooms in the church building and have the kids go from door to door trick-or-treating. It was a lot of fun. Jon's the secretary of the Yound Men's Presidency and they and their wives (who did most of the work) had their own room.

 

Lincoln's still trying to get used to baths, though he seems to be getting better with each one. He was about a month and a half in this one. The last picture is hilarious because as I started draining the tub, his fire hydrant started spraying all over the place. So, I tried stopping the spray attack with my hand!