CONCERTS & DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS

CHRISTMAS IS A COMIN

SALLY BYTHEWAY CONCERTS

DECEMBER 9th, 10th & 11th

Libby Gardner Hall, Recording Session

Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Road Home Benefit Concert

The Assembly Hall on Temple Square

LIBBY GARDNER HALL

THE ASSEMBLY HALL

WALKING AROUND TEMPLE SQUARE LOOKING AT THE LIGHTS

Shannon and the boys came for the concert

DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS
CARLEE DECORATING HER CAKE

Pretty sad when Grandma Donna has her granddaughter frosting her own birthday cake!

LARRY'S PARTY

It was a great party, I made the last half hour of the party after my concert

COLE

Cole came for Christmas so we had a cousin birthday party for him

THING IN A JAR/GRANDMA & PTA

WILLOW CANYON ELEMENTARY REFLECTIONS

LOGAN WITH AN HONORABLE MENTIONS AWARD

One of the activities that I have been involved with these last few years is the PTA. I helped with the Halloween Festivities and also helped organize Reflections. There have been a few of us Grandparents who have enjoyed the PTA, in fact our PTA president this year is a Grandparent, he is a wonderful leader. The school principal called me "The Grandma of the Year", that made me feel good. While working on reflections I brought home some play doe and funny eyes, Logan was over to my house so I handed him the materials and told him to create something for Refection's. He loved it, and new exactly what he wanted to do. He saw this "Thing in a Jar" (octopus) at his dad's work. He began creating his creatures. The theme was "Together We Can", he had the Octopus's holding hands. He said it represented him and Braden because they were best friends. His mom put it on a board and Logan wrote down the theme. Pretty cool for a last minute project. Shannon said that Logan is already excited about doing this again next year.

TWO RIBBONS! One for participating and the Honorable Mention ribbon

CONGRATS!

THANKSGIVING DINNER & SUNDAY DINNER WITH BIRTHDAY CAKE

THANKSGIVING DAY IN EPHRAIM
WOW, WE STILL HAVE OUR TAN FROM HAWAII

RELAXING BEFORE THE BIG DINNER

John, Grandma Ellen & Natalie

Grandpa Bill

Bill & Jay

Sydney at the stairs in the old farm house Collin anxiously waiting at the table for dinnerGrandma Ellen getting the turkey out of the ovenJohn and Ellen carving the turkeySydney setting the table

Natalie and Sydney

THANKSGIVING DINNER IN EPHRAIMSUNDAY DINNER AFTER THANKSGIVING & A NOVEMBER BIRTHDAY
HOMEMADE CLAM CHOWDER, POTATO & BROCCOLI SOUPS
YUM!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SHANNON

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21st

SUNRISE TO SUNSET

THE END OF A WONDERFUL VACATION
Before the sun came up we were awakened by crowing roosters, and then they were replaced by the sound of birds singing and and pounding waves, The reality that our vacation was coming to an end, hit us hard. We layed in bed and watched the morning sky change colors as the day approached. There was a small tug boat just coming into port as the night sky was changing into a beautiful morning sky. You can see the lights between the trees if you look closely. The tug boat was towing a large barge full of huge trailers.

MORNING HAS ARRIVED

I loved this vase at the hotel so I had to take a picture of it. Can you guess what was painted on the vase?

ROOSTERS!

SAYING GOODBYE

Leaving Kauai and heading back to Honolulu for our flight home.

Waiting at the airport in Kauai.......ask John why we had to wait so long.
5 HOURS

We had a few hours before our flight home in Honolulu so we hung out at the Navy Exchange.

Yup, that's Santa

We had lunch up in the food court where we sat outside on the balcony to enjoy the weather.

We decided to drive over to Hickem Air force base to enjoy the sunset before our flight, they had a beach where we took tuns of pictures. We visited with a resident and her son at this beach, the water was very shallow in this area. She told us that in this particular area when evening came small sharks would swim around. We didn't see any sharks, but we did see a breath taking sunset.

WE COULDN'T THINK OF A BETTER WAY TO END OUR VACATION!