Ryker the photographer

Ryker likes to take photos and he took about 115 pictures of various things here are a few of them.

USU @ the Idaho Potato Bowl

We headed out early on Saturday, Dec 15th, to the Idaho Potato Bowl.  We met my parents in Brigham City and they took Ryker and Alana to Logan, UT for a sleepover with them.

We continued on the long trek to Boise, ID.  We met up with Bart and Megan Bowen for a little pregame fun and then they headed up to their box seats and we went down to the bleachers.

 We had a great time at the game it was pretty close going into the 4th quarter it was 13-6 for the Aggie's against the Toledo Rockets.  Then the Aggie's started gaining momentum and finished with a score of 41-15.and take home the Potato Bowl trophy.

To celebrate the Aggie's win we headed over to Big Jud's. Chris ordered the 1 lb. burger with bacon, sauted mushrooms and onions. It was massive! Greg also ordered a 1 lb burger but didn't get a bun so it is still huge but not quite as imposing. I ordered a regular bacon burger with a heavenly huckleberry shake, yummy! Chris was able to finish 1/2 his burger and Greg was about the same. We had excellent service even though they were really busy!

We headed to the hotel and enjoyed the hot tub and then went to bed.  We got up the next day and headed to Logan to get the kids and spend time with my family. It had snowed there so we had a fun snowball fight, then ate sloppy joe's and cake with homemade chocolate fudge ice cream to celebrate my sister KaraLee's birthday. It was a great weekend!

Mountains and helpers

We enjoy having mountains for breakfast. For those of you who might not know mountains are also known as German pancakes. They are delicious! Alana and Ryker both like to help me cook. Alana was a little too quick to give me an egg and broke it on the counter and on her.  To clean her up I took off her pj's and put them in the washer.  She was not with this but cheered up once she got to push the button to start the washer.

Thanksgiving in Tooele

We went toTooele to the Mascherino's to have Thanksgiving Dinner.  It was wonderful we had a deep fried and regular cooked turkey and all the trimmings and the desserts were amazing! This is the only picture I took- I am not sure how that happened but it is a cute one of Alana giving baby Daemian a hug.

Alana is 2

 Alana turned 2 today and we had a party with family, presents and a chocolate monkey cake with vanilla ice cream!  Alana received a doll house and baby high chair,baby car seat and baby carrier, and a denim purse from Grandma Susan.  We were able to Skype with the Putman Grandparents so they could join in on the fun.