Sutherland Family Reunion in Breckenridge!

Words can't express how great it was to be with the Sutherland family last week. We were so bummed to be missing Dallin, Erin, Caitlin & Billy.

The whole crew who was able to come.

Once again we had a bbq dinner and a show by Two Below Zero. Loved those guys!

The Sheriff and Dan. Dan is made the new deputy.

 Kelly, staring as Daisy May!

Rock climbing!

White water rafting!

The best part of the week were the devotionals by the grandkids, and the family home evenings by our generation. Grandpa has established as our family motto "No Empty Chairs at our Celestial Table." We all talked about how we plan to make that happen. I love our family!

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day wouldn't be complete without a Valentine's mailbox to take to school.

Making valentines...

With candy, of course!

 Love making Valentine's treats!

And love putting hearts all over the house...you can't really tell in this picture, but we put them everywhere!

And, roses from Mark, of course!

Christmas Memories 2013

Caitlin and Billy came to spend the Christmas holidays with us. They went on a double-date to Christmas Card Lane with Cody and Cambrie. So fun!

We love using our Christmas dishes! Jayson made the napkin rings!

Travis and Cami came to have Christmas Eve dinner with us. Love these two!

 We love getting ready for Santa! Jayson gets everything ready.

And all ready for the kids to come downstairs!

Our tradition of everyone waiting on Mom and Dad's bed until everyone is awake...then the whole crew can come downstairs to see what Santa brought!

A favorite part of Christmas is Pennie unwrapping her gifts.

Look out, Cody got a gun for Christmas!

 The boys wanted to take Billy and Caitlin to experience Sky Zone, a trampoline place in Chula Vista. We had a great time, but everyone got super tired!

Cody is a dodgeball master! He has to be careful not to hurt anyone.

Tyler and Rifka's Wedding in December

One of the benefit of having a big awesome family is enjoying seeing the next generation, my nieces and nephews, make wonderful choices. Tyler chose Rifka and they were married in the San Diego temple on December 18th.

My sister and I did all the flower arrangements for the tables. We had a table arranging party in our garage the day before the big day. I think they turned out great!

The day was super rainy, so we didn't get any pictures at the temple. I mean it was SUPER rainy! Like more rainy than it ever, ever is in San Diego. But, the luncheon venue couldn't have been more beautiful. It was right on the water and every view was breathtaking.

Every detail was beautiful. Check out the cute cupcakes!

We recommended they use the same lady who made Caitlin's cake, and no one was disappointed! It was beautiful AND so so yummy!

It was fun to have Casey come for a few days! And the place was so fancy...

Even with fancy food, that we couldn't figure out how to eat.

The newlyweds. 

 So happy for them!

And so thankful to enjoy the blessings of being a close family!

Finishing up November

I have been out of the blogging world for a while since I started working full time and am still trying to finish up my bachelor's degree. But, I haven't quit! I'm going to try to get caught up over the next week or so, so I can get back on track!

November highlights:

Cody finished up his Eagle Project (although he isn't officially an Eagle, yet)

This is the trash/recycling receptacle.

This is the compost bin.

And we always take a pre-Thanksgiving dinner snapshot -

We had dinner with the Beebe's. So fun!

Derek sent us this funny shot with a caption that read "This is not Pennie!"

It does kind of look like her!