Pilgrims and Indians

Cali wanted everyone to dress up as an Indian or Pilgrim for Thanksgiving.  So we did!

I found a cute pattern on line for some pilgrim hats so Cali and I put some together.  Cali also made some fun Indian feather headbands.  Along with some great items from Aunt Teresa's dress up box the kids - big and little - looked great!

Thanksgiving Eve

Tuesday evening Jim and I flew to Utah to spend Thanksgiving with the kids and Jim's family.  Clark picked us up from the airport and we headed down to Highland where we were staying with Wynn and Emily. The girls drove out that evening and spent the night too.


We headed out first thing Wednesday morning to do the grocery shopping for Thanksgiving dinner as we were hosting dinner.  We got it done and then headed back to Emily's to start cooking.  With all my helpers (Jim, Emily, Cali and Tessa) we got it done in no time but we did make a big mess!

Wednesday evening we went to dinner with all the "grown up" Wilkes - which was just about everyone 16 and above.  David treated us all to a delicious dinner at LaJolla Groves at the Riverwoods.  Thank you David!!

It was so fun to all be together - we are thankful for our family!!

After evenings like this we always wished we lived closer but are grateful we get to visit often!

After dinner we walked down to the Provo Beach Resort where Logan treated everyone to ice cream!

As we walked down to ice cream we saw Santa sitting all by himself in his little house so we stopped to say hi and have a picture!

Then it was back to Wynn and Emily's and time for bed because we had a lot more cooking to do the next day!

A Little More Halloween

The Saturday before Halloween we went a fun party at our neighbor The Balzar's.

Here are the host and hostess!

Fortunately Bill doesn't look like that when he is at work as a motorcycle cop for the Portland Police Department!

There were lots of fun costumes.  Our neighbor's the Adams came as a football player and a football!

Neighbor Doug was pretty creative - he came as Occupied Portland.

Here are some of the neighborhood girls - Olivia, Shannon (Hannah's friend) Hannah, Lauren Sommers and Molly Quillin.

And some of the mom's (I don't know Glinda, she was a friend of the Balzer's)

But I have to say my favorite costume's was Debbie.  She came dressed up as me.  It was so hilarious!

She had the apron, camera, candy corn cookie, scrapbooking stickers and a bag of essential oils and even the hair!!  All my favorite things  Too funny!!!