Thanksgiving 2009

Our family on Kylie's second Thanksgiving

Grandpa and Kylie waiting for dinner

"The Gray Gang" enjoying on our delicious dinner

Kylie enjoying her turkey

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving yesterday. We traveled over the pass and went to my Aunt Dana's house in Everett. The drive was a little wet, but it was really warm so not driving problems. My mom and dad, along with Ryan, Kylie and I, and then two of my brothers were left from Ellensburg around 9 am. We missed you Nick and Courtney. The dinner was fabulous, Kylie especially enjoyed herself. The drive was hard on our 15 month old, but she did really well. We of course looked through the ads, had pumpkin pie ad got to visit most of the afternoon. It was a great day. We headed out around 5 pm and we ended up in Royal about 8:30. We hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Kylie and I are going to enjoy resting and relaxing for the next couple of days. I can't believe that I am not out there on black Friday shopping up and storm, but I have to say I am going to enjoy being all snuggled up, watching a movie, and having a cup of coco later.

Ky with her Daddy

She just lover her Daddy

Kylie loves to do whatever you are doing. This is just one fun things that she loves to do. She tries to play the guitar when her daddy is practicing. She is a spit fire and our lives are not boring anymore. We love ya Kylie Rose!

Ladies Weekend

We painted a pumpkin wall hanging, which says "Harvest Blessing"
My mom, Aunt Sharon, and Aunt Teresa baking up a storm
Aunt Tammy and I scrapbooking

Last weekend was so much fun. My mom and I headed to my Aunt Teresa's in Pasco for a day of fun fall baking, scrapbooking, painting, and wonderful food. We had the best time. Kylie stayed home with her daddy and had a fun time bonding. We were able to get a lot done. I was able to get twelve scrapbook pages done, thirty Christmas tags, and an entire tray of fall baked goodies. We also enjoyed some really delicious meals. The best was Sunday night before we had to head into town to run a couple of errand we were able to have a dinner ,which included my mom, Aunt Teresa, Uncle Dirk, Aunt Tammy, cousin Danielle, Uncle Dan, Uncle Joe, Aunt Sharon, and myself. It was a fun dinner and it was great to get to see them and visit. Thanks Teresa for having us, it was a great time!

Happy Birthday Matt!

My brother Matt's birthday was a week and half ago and unfortunately we was unable to make it because Kylie was sick with a fever for about a week. We ended up in the ER with 105 fever that I just could not get down with Tylenol or Motrin. It was a long couple of days, needless to say we wanted to wish my sweet brother Matt a very happy birthday and say that we wish we could have been there. Love ya Bro!

Happy Halloween!

We had a wonderful evening of Tricks and Treats! We started off by choosing the costume this afternoon. We had tried out the lion costume last week. I tried to take pictures for a Halloween card that I was going to send, but we had to settle on a pumpkin picture instead. She just would not smile and the mane was a bit unruly and kept hanging in her face. We tried on the baby bear costume this afternoon for the first time and she walked over to the mirror and smiled. Thanks to Courtney, my brother's girlfriend, we found the perfect costume. Courtney's mom made the bear costume for Courtney on her second Halloween.

We ate dinner and then headed out to our first house right down the road to Grandma Shirley's. She makes the best carmel corn. Next, down the road to Larry and Anita Sather's, Kylie loves her princess microphone. Then back up the hill to Uncle Don and Aunt Shannon's for some more cool treats. Then ended with Nany and Ba's. We let Kylie run wild with her cousins, which included Jace as a skeleton, Caden as a Ninja Turtle, and Maddie the cutest witch. We had a very fun Halloween. Thanks everyone for the great treats!

Pumpking Carving

We had a really fun afternoon getting ready for Halloween. We got two beautiful pumpkins from my Dad's garden and today was the day to carve them. Kylie got in on the action of cleaning out all of the guts and my talented husband, who is so artistic carve them both for us. I was ready with my patterns, but he didn't need them. He was able to free hand cut them both out. They are beautiful and we will have them lit for the rest of the month. Thanks Daddy!

Fishing

Ryan has started another hobby this summer, FISHING! He has been down on the creek at least a couple times a week. He loves fishing, the gear, the shows, etc. I am glad that Ryan found another hobby that is relaxing. A couple of weekends ago he went with Justin, Ted, and Larry down to the Columbia and caught a couple of Salmon and a Steelhead. It was a fun time. We love you Mr. Fisherman!