Catching Up... Service Auction, Thanksgiving, and other fun!

Just wanted to catch up... I think my problem is that I take too many pictures!!

I took some pictures at the church by my Mom's house... I love when the leaves change!!

 Thanksgiving was up at the cabin this year!!!  Yea for the snow melting just in time so everyone could drive up!!  (now hopefully it will snow from now until March!!)  Since my pictures are out of order... shocker.. the centerpieces came from my ward service auction (i was in charge of decorations.. so it is ALL from pinterest... my addiction!!)  My mom was AWESOME and made little cornicopia's for each place setting out of little sugar cones, and Alana stuffed them with runts!! (I can attest that they were delicious!)

When there were only 5 of us at the cabin.. there were a total of 4 Ipads... we are all FREAKS!!  haha and we kept mixing up whose was whose!!

Mom really steped up the meal this year and added a chafing dish... meaning a lit flame at the table!!

Surprisingly no meltdowns!!! Just Smiles!!

Mom and Grandma

Grandpa making the gravy

Lori always takes good care of all the little kids!

Joni made it up even after her Turkey race!!

Dad and Avery baby... I have to add the 'baby' part on!

Cindy and Amy even came up for a day so they could see everyone!

We love ABBY!! (however she cleans a little better than the rest of us.. so I think the cleaning standards are being raised... :}

HA!!  this is my Dad's friend away from home.. no joke my parents have neighbor friends that they hang out with up at their cabin...

Beautiful time of year!!

 So my ward does a 'Service Auction' every year.  Everyone donates a service and then we get together, eat dinner and auction everything off!!  Then we take the money (we made over $5,000!!!) and donate it to making kits for the Road Home!!  Cool right?!  And this year I got to be one of the 4 people in charge... yea...  Luckily for me the other 3 were really organized and focused and helped me focus so it turned out really well!!

Recognize these... yep these were what was made for the centerpieces..

Melissa Bishop

Cody, Freddie, Callie and Chris

Callie and I- she is the most organized person EVER!!

We had over 80 people there!!  Made our 5 hour shopping trip worth it!!

 I got to babysit Alana and Ellie the other night and we had sooo much fun!!  We made a fort/tent, Alana cooked all by herself pumpkin chocolate chip cookies for the service auction!!  She is so great!!

Ellie coloring.. Ha!  I am so mean and make her sit in the highchair to color... You would understand if you saw the walls in her room :)

Silly Glasses



Then we watched a movie on my Mom's projector... perfect because Alana and I could watch and Ellie could run around and dance!

Dancing!

And to end with... beautiful sunsets!!! One of my most favorite things about fall!!