Saturday, November 28, 2009

Thanksgiving Day And Christmas Pics!!!!!

I hope everyone had a Joyous and fun Thanksgiving. I baked all day Wednesday and cooked my Cranberry Sauce Thursday Morning. As a family we watched the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade cause that has been a tradition since I was a little girl. Afterwards we went over to Aunt Diane's house for a great Thanksgiving Dinner with tons of Yummy foods and some wonderful time with our family which we always love seeing and spending time with cause it makes for a very awesome and fun day. we later enjoyed Dessert. I made a Glazed Chocolate Pumpkin Cake which everyone who had it seemed to like and of course my famous Chocolate Cheese Fudge and yes it has cheese in it. Of course that was everyones favorite and I am always happy to share recipes for anyone who wants one or wants me to make some to try. That evening we had our white elephant exchange which is always fun if not funny.Of course we all looked and planned our Black Friday shopping games of attack. What a fun day Thanksgiving was I always enjoy this time of year.



Black Friday we were up at 5:00 a.m. to head out amongst all the shoppers to get in on some great deals. We got a brand new Christmas Tree which I will take Pics and Post later. Also got some great deals at some places we put on layaway for Christmas and some we bought that day. There were all kinds of Deals and it was so much fun to go shopping as a family with Mom!!! We had a nice lunch and a tired fun filled day once again and I hope all of our family got what they were looking for or found their own great deals but most of all had fun spending time together.



Today Saturday we went to see my Best Friend and my Kids godmother Bonnie who is a manager for JC Penny Portraits and we got the 2009 Family Christmas Pics. We will be sending out Christmas cards Next Weekend so I need adresses for those in the famiy I do not have.But for now besides the new Family portrait on this blog are some of the little ones since of course this is Jaces's 1st Christmas and he is now 5 months old and looking cute as ever. Of course we can never forget Princess Ashtyn who likes to take Pictures and is still talking about all her fun she had seeing Santa Claus Yesterday and her Day at Aunt Diane's which she loved. So we hope you enjoy and we will be posting santa Pic later with Tree pic and will be emailing copies of Santa pic as well. Hope everyone whom we did not see over the Holiday and the weekend had a great one!!











Thursday, November 12, 2009

Hectic Veterans Day!!!

Well folks if any of you got to watch the News at all from yesterday morning on to last night you would have seen the major story of the day involving a FIRE on 78th st and Baseline. Well my family and all others were very Blessed and Thankful to have Heavenly Father watching us cause that is my next door neighbors house that went up in flames and almost could have taken out the neighbor to the North's House and our House as well. At 3:10 yesterday morning I was awoken by 2 loud pops and what sounded like someone was breaking into my vehicle or shed and was on my property. When I woke Todd and he looked out the front he saw a light in our yard when he opened the doorhe saw our neighbors home up in at least 20 ft high flames and yelled for me to call 911. After waiting 15 min to get through to 911 The police and fire showed up at around 3:30 but before they did there were plenty more loud explosions of propane and gas and even higher flames as the fire spread fast and over to our trees and the explosions blew out the other neighbors house as well as one gentleman was cut badly on both arms after jumping on the roof to keep that house from going too. Another neighbor hooked up a hose to our water to soak our trees and shed etc to help keep that frie froming coming intoour yard. Firemen got everything hooked up and started to put out the fire sending everyone back into their homes except us and the other neighbor we were told to evacuate as far away as we could so after all of that and already having some of our most precious Valuables and the kids in the car we had to unload our stroller and the kids and take off on foot down to baseline to avoid the smoke leaving our car nad home behind for the firemen to use our yard to fight the spreading fire. We of course woke Kelsey to come get us and in th emeantime other neighbors walked down to bring us water and offer diapers etc. We were told by police it would be daylight before we could come home. At 7:30 we arrived home. There was fire and smoke damage to our trees on their backsides our yard soaked in mud and our porchway as well. Our car and House wreaked of Smoke really bad and our whole area still does and probably will for a while. Our neighbor whose house was condemned for years lost everything including a camper parked up against our wall on her side and some of her valuables she had yet to put in storage. I was interviewed by channel 12 news and was recorded while talking to the other Neighbor and some nearby neighbors about the events as we heard and seen them for fox 10. This Fire is still under investigation as to what was the cause but again we were all blessed to be safe and watched over and that no one was killed and the injured neighbor is doing well minus the 60 stiches he has in his arms.Again a hectic and scary Veterans Day and one none of us will forget for a long time. I hope everyone had a nice Holiday and got to do something nice and fun. We are Thankful for our Family and for the nice Neighbors that came together and look forward to the upcoming Thanksgiving. I hope you all enjoy the rest of your week but most importantly Thank Heavenly Father for his Love and Watchful eye.