Fall/Thanksgiving

I didn't take my camera for Thanksgiving dinner, but it was nice. It was our family, my parents and little brother, P and her son C, who are practically family, and then some family friends, who are empty nesters and had no one else to spend thanksgiving with. In all, it was 11 people there. Crowded, but there was lots of good food and company. Later that evening, Nana and Bop-bop Staheli and Uncle Jar came down. And no, I never got a picture with all of us. But, I did get some pictures of the kids playing with the leaves. Thanks Bop-bop Staheli for raking them up... over and over and over and over.




So there isn't much of a fall here. Seriously... the first time I went to Utah in October and drove through a canyon, I told my dad, "I didn't think trees really turned yellow, red, orange, or purple." Here they go from mostly green to dead really quick. This year however, I took the time to notice our tree out front as it started turning. It was so beautiful! It turned this really brilliant orange color that really stood out against the intesne blue sky. Here is a picture, but it doesn't do it justice. I wish I knew how to work photoshop so I could show you guys how it looked to me.

Haircut

So a couple weeks before Thanksgiving, I cut my hair. Most of you have either seen me, or seen the picture on facebook, but not everyone. So here is my haircut. It was about 6 inches cut off in places... maybe more.

Vegas Baby!!

So the weekend before Thanksgiving, we spent in Vegas. My Uncle and Aunt (Uncle whom I haven't seen since I was itty bitty, and my Aunt, whose been married to my uncle for 16 year but I have never met) came for some conference. He's a doctor, so it was some medical something. Anyway, we decided to go so I could actually meet them. It was way fun. For those of you who don't know, I also have a brother and his family there. Friday night when we got there, we all had dinner together. It was 12 of us at the olive garden. Once I thought we should have someone take a picture of us, but we never did do that. That was the only time we were all together like that, so I was kinda bummed that we didn't make it. Saturday we went to the Shark Reef Aquarium. Jordan and Liam had tons of fun!! Here are some pictures....


Liam loved looking at the fish!! When one would come up in front of him, he'd get a huge grin, giggle, and try to grab it. It was priceless.

I love how it looks like the shark is coming down to eat my little brothers head. LOL :)
This is a pool where you could touch the stingrays. Jordan was too scared to touch them, though she did touch the water once.
Liam just wanted to jump in the pool and splash around.
I got up the guts to touch them. Towards the center of their backs, they are hard... almost shell like. The farther out towards the tips of their wings (???) they get soft and squishy.

This octopus was soooo cool to watch move!

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