On Frenchman Mountain

Over the past few years, we’ve decided to celebrate winter solstice on the actual date. This year, it was Monday, Dec. 21. Our tradition includes opening presents in the morning, a formal dinner [PDF menu] around 2 p.m., followed by a board game and dancing in the evening. The kids love celebrating earlier since it gives them [...]

At a visit to the local saloon, we got someone to snap our photo for our annual holiday cards. From left to right: Katelyn (age13), Jeremy, Amy, and Sandra (age 10). Happy holidays!

For our annual holiday photo, the girls asked if we could do old time photos again. It had been about seven years since our last one. In addition to the family photo, we had separate shots done. We are so lucky to have such beautiful girls!

For the first time, we hosted Thanksgiving at our house. My sister and her family drove from Denver to enjoy the four-day weekend with us. As part of our fun, we enjoyed the following: Thanksgiving dinner Twilight – the movie Twilight – New Moon, the movie and Gameworks The Tournament of Kings – a dinner [...]

It’s not February It’s not May It’s the best holiday You give out presents to everyone You’ll even maybe go under the mistletoe You’ll meet someone new You’ll meet someone old Why don’t you have some cookie dough We will open presents here and there Now it is the New Year

During the four-day Thanksgiving weekend, we took the kids to Gameworks. Caden played so hard he passed out and slept under the table. I happened to catch Rissa in a fantastic pose.  

Our garage haunt for the year is done, and I have a few pictures and videos up at my blog: http://gristleandsmoke.blogspot.com/2009/11/halloweed-2009-pic-dump.html It was a fun night. No incidents, about 350 visitors, everything pretty much worked as planned. The haunt ran for about 4 hours. Next year, who knows…no more room to expand in the garage, [...]