Thanksgiving 2011

Each year since anyone can remember my dad's family has gotten together for a family reunion. Some years we have taken over parks, and other years we have all fit into a house. This year we decided to try to take over the parks again. We had about 30 people. Not bad and we did make a big impact at the little park we were at.


Right side of the table: Clayton and his friend (sorry dude, never caught you name, I was too busy running around chasing a 2 year old!) Bobby (my dad's cousin), Scott (My brother's friend)
Left side: Nancy, Debbie (my dad's cousin's), Beka, Nate (My brother's friends).




Right side: Michael (Jen's [Jack's girlfriend] son), Clark, Clint, Karen (My soon to be cousin!)
In the background, My dad and Shelby being master cooks!
Left Side: Larry, Tammy (my dad's cousins), Dawn (My SUPER Cousin)




Clint's beautiful Grandma, Barbara and Mom, Diane!




Jen, her mom and Jack





Shelby and my dad and Mike (Jack's friend in the background).


The centerpieces I had been working on for this day: I painted twigs and die cut the leaves. The idea is to have everyone write what they are thankful for and put their name and year on the leaves. Each year we will add to them and can read them for years to come. :)



Various pictures from the night:
Jack and Scott holding Amber and Jack. Kori (The kids' mom)


Jen and Jack and their moms! I got you mom! You couldn't escape my camera today! Muhahaha. :) She hates me posting pictures of her, but I have to share my beautiful mommy with you all.







Every year we also celebrate Dawn's birthday. Come years her birthday falls on the day of our reunion.


Lastly I'm sure you saw the hung monkey in many of the previous pictures. Nate HATES USC. This is a USC monkey that joined our festivities for the day. :) Why it was allowed, no idea...

What Happens When Your 2 Yr Old Gets The Camera

The other day Clark got a hold of my camera and went around the house taking pictures of his toys. :) Here are some of the pictures he took:











Can you tell what I'm doing here?

Pumpkin Patch and Halloween 2011

The weekend before Halloween we went to the Pumpkin Patch at Irvine Park. Unfortunately we picked a CRAZY insane weekend to go. Along with the pumpkin patch the park was also having a 5k run event and the little zoo was having a halloween special going on. We had to park almost a mile away from the patch. Thank goodness we grabbed the stroller!

Waiting for the train ride and on the train:






Clark wanted to take all the pumpkins with us.





He also doesn't want to smile "normally" but I like his "funky" smiles. :)






The park also had these little boards that you can stick your face into the hole. Clark decided to stick his entire head into the hole, and then got stuck!






Getting ready for trick or treating!






Clark really got the hang of things once he realized the idea of what trick or treating was all about. He even realized that most people didn't mind when he grabbed a giant hand full of candy!




Making the rounds in the neighborhood:





As you can see Sponge Bob visited our neighborhood and Merrik was way excited about it. I think Clark got excited because Merrik was excited.

*Again I'm sorry that the order of my pictures aren't correct. I have yet to figure out Blogger's new system. They use to upload in the opposite order in which you clicked on them to download. Now it doesn't seem to matter which order I click on it. So if any of you know how to upload the pictures in the correct order, pass on the secret!