Thanksgiving

This year we had the Schulthies reunion for our Thanksgiving.  There were about 175 people there.  It was bigger than a ward party.

Hayley's family...Ezra, Brooke, Kate and Mick. 

Grandma Joan with Brandon's newest addition.

Brielle amazed us all on how fast she picked up on making these bracelets.

Aunt Elaine and Uncle Brent Schulthies

Aunt Shelley and Uncle Neill Goodfellow

Brady, Braxton and Blake

Weston and Lori

Grandma, David and Nancy Mccune

Nicole and Bryan DeGroff with their daughters

Pam and Scott Adams

Working on a name search

working on bracelets 

Aunt Launa and Uncle Rod Frahm's family

Kacie, Mckinley and Hanna

EJ, Rosie, Caleb and Stoney

working on wreaths made from coffee filters.

Stephanie, Derrick and Ryder Munn

Uncle Vaughn and Aunt Barbara

Stoney and Maria

Uncle Preston and Aunt Sheryl did a great job organizing the reunion.  He shared some fun facts about our family.  I can't believe we now have over 350 people in our family.

Van and Susan's family

Uncle Brent and Dad

Anthony, Brett and little Harper Allred

We were helping Aunt Berniel with a Relief Society project she was working on.  Making little plastic canvas temple packets for their temple workers.  They have a white temple on front and they will use them to carry names.

Brady and Juliene

Miss Sadie Lady, love her!

Love these three Aunties of mine...Launa, Shelley and Berniel

Amazing people in that picuture...love them all!

Shayla with Brady

Tara, Liam and Bobby working on Bracelets 

Friday night our family all went to see Frozen.  

It was such a cute movie. 

 Dad and Ruben stayed home with Brandon.  

These two were so cute carrying around EJ and Rosie's new puppy.

Reid and Chad

So it was pretty frustrating that Friday I started getting sick and then Scott got it Saturday and then Brady on Sunday.  Scott was really upset he didn't get to see Nyssa play in the 3A State football Championship game with his brothers.  (They lost 41 to 6 against Cascade Christian)  During the double V reunion Saturday, Dad helped me take Brandon home.  I sure hope he didn't get it too.  He was super talkative but none of it made any sense, however Kacie got some good entertainment out of it.  While we were taking a picture at the double V he said, "Brady, I don't like you very well." and then I said, "Brady he said your name!" I don't think he even knew what he said or at least I hope he didn't.  It was funny.

Sure love my family!!!

Piano Festival

Today was the Snake River Piano Festival.

Kacie and Ryan were able to play in the recital later at 3:00 for their levels since they both got the rosette.  

All the rosette winners.

Ryan was level 1

Kacie was level 9 and played Cowboy Song.

So happy that Kacie is continuing to develope her talents.

Taylor got really nervous otherwise I think she would have got it too because she knew it really well.  She was in level 10.  I felt bad for her.

Our Veteran's Day Adventure...

 Brady really wanted to go on another adventure so today we went out to find the Honeycombs past Three Fingers Rock.  It was a beautiful day but it was really hazy so it was hard to get good pictures.

 We stopped for a little bit at Succor Creek.  Brady and Scott had fun feeding the fish in the creek.  They must have been hungry because they went for anything that was thrown at them.

 We love it out here.  

That rock is so beautiful to see out in the middle of the desert.

 Scott thinks this is about where he got shot 35 years ago when he was nine years old.  He said it still creeps him out.  It is amazing that he even lived through that being how far out they were.  He said his Grandma Phyllis drove them while his mom held on to him.  He remembered this one steep part where Ron had to put their scout into 4-wheel drive so they could get out and he also had to navigate for them.  Pretty amazing since he was only seven.  I just can't even imagine going through that looking at Brady who is currently nine.

 This was at the beginning of our four mile hike into the honeycombs.

 Brady thought this grass looked like party streamers.

 I love how inquisitive Brady is.

 Brady is not a bad photographer.

 See how the rock looks like a honeycomb.

  Can't believe we hiked past that juniper tree on the horizon.  

We never quite made it to the canyon of honeycombs because we were afraid of running out of daylight so we will have to try again with an earlier start.

 Stopping for a little snack before we head back home.

 On our way back Scott told us at this one spot that it would be our last glimpse of Three Fingers but Brady kept telling him no its not and sure enough Brady was right and we got to see it one more time.  Scott told Brady he should know better not to believe him.  Brady also impressed us with how well he could spot the deer.  Twice he saw them way before Scott did.

We were pretty excited to see this monster.
There were about 20 to 30 head of deer all together at this point.
There were some other bucks too, but nothing like this one.