Viewer Discretion Advised. . . it's real cheesy

Here we are roasting our ward and its members at our ward Christmas Talent Show. Sorry, most of you won't get the inside jokes but on the whole if you are affiliated with our church you might get a laugh out of it.

On The First Day of Christmas in our Ward We See:

1 Our Bishop handing out candy (played by our Bishops wife)

2 absent home teachers

3 "greetings and salutations" (as our 2nd counselor in the Bishopric repeats EVERY time he conducts)

4 Please be reverent (hard to do in a ward with over 100 primary children, over 50 nursery kids, and over 30 pre-nursery children. . . with no end in sight)

5 NURSERIES (no joke)

6 weeks of dinners (with the arrival of new babies monthly, this is a task for sure)

7 emergency preparedness (comes in handy when you live on the gulf coast)

8 Enrichment evites

9 million meetings

10 ward split rumors (ya think)

11 sleeping residents (our ward is primarily made up of doctors, resident doctors, med students, law students and lawyers. Why all the children you ask?)

12 pregnant ladies (hence the nurseries)

It was fun to perform but most of the fun was in the making of it! Nice job ladies.

Thanksgiving 2008

This year we had Kyle's family in town for Thanksgiving. His sister Jasmine flew in with her 4 kids for almost a week. Shane (husband) is currently deployed to Afghanistan, which allowed for the visit as they would normally be living across the sea in Japan but are living in Utah with family while he is away. We were just so glad to have them for as long as we possibly could. In fact here are Jaden and Ty's top ten reasons why they were so excited for the "cousins", as they call them, to visit:
1. because you are you
2. fun
3. hot dogs
4. movies
5. sleeping on tramp
6. staying up late
7. making pizza
8. donuts
9. forts
10. plays

The day before Thanksgiving Kyle's Dad and wife Geralyn flew in for the "meal." We spent the entire day in the kitchen and loved every minute of it. We tried a new turkey recipe (thanks Miriam) that required: injecting the turkey, using flavor injectors, (yes this was a first for me) with a special recipe of flavor, stuffing it with butter and peeled, sliced apples and throwing it in the oven the night before Thanksgiving Day! It baked for 12 hours! It was so nice to have that process completed when we woke up Thursday. I am convinced that is the way to do it. The turkey was delicious and it literally fell of the bones.
We stuffed ourselves over and over that day. We were so thankful for everyone that visited and are grateful for all we have been blessed with.

Reese gets her first taste of Great Grandma Lavonne's famous homemade rolls. She devoured them!

Reese Lynn hanging with Grandpa Lynn. Just as Reese warmed up to Lynn it was time to go! Let's hope they can pick up where they left off at the next get together.