Memorial Day with the Zeh's

We had a lovely day up Millcreek Canyon on Memorial Day. Good food, good friends, good day.

It's the weekend. Hurray!

The weekend is finally here.

This means I get to sleep in, and enjoy my mornings in one of my favorite places.. my bed. Oh and it's Mother's Day this weekend. Bob and I are pretty lucky to have such great mamas. Have a great Mother's Day everyone.

We Heart Pioneer Day

Had such a nice weekend. Grateful to live in such an awesome state.

Easter Weekend 2011

We spent our holiday in Moab this year. It was nice to get away for a bit. More pictures to come.

Black and White New Years Partay

Yes, I am finally posting about New Years. What can I say? I've been busy.

Thanks to Gavin and Jessica who hosted a great New Years bash. In honor of their theme, I changed all of the pictures to black and white.

Here's to a great 2011!

Happy New Year!

Happy 1-1-11! (what's strange is I happened to look at my phone today at 1:11) I am feeling excited for what this new year will bring.

Christmas 2010

We ate.

We exchanged.

We laughed.

We celebrated.

We got very little sleep.

It was lovely as always. So it's almost 2011.. where does time go? It has zipped right past my eyes. Which I am not complaining about, since this year has had it out for me from the beginning. Can't wait to ring in the new year. Can't wait for my three day weekend to get started tomorrow night.

Santa & Rudolph wish you a..

{So would this make us Santolph? Maybe we should just stick with Merry Christmas! xo, BobCat}

Merry Christmas Eve 2010

Hope tomorrow is magical, memorable, and filled with loved ones. Happy Christmas Eve!

I Spy?

My mom collects nativity scenes. She has a variety of gorgeous nativities. Old, new, small, large. She even has a plastic one that the grandkids can play with.

Well if you ever peek in on my moms living room in December, you might see something like this..

My sneaky brother (okay and sometimes me) like to move the baby Jesus or substitute it, to see if my mom notices. My brother will also hide the babies around my mom's house.

We don't mean any disrespect. We just think it's funny to see my mom's reaction. Does that make us bad people? Don't answer that. Merry Christmas in just 3 days!

Christmas is a comin'

I had every intention of putting up some very glee-ish, merry-ified pictures of what we have been up to so far this holiday. But of course my week is still busy. I know I said this last week, but if I can just make it to this weekend, I think next week will be a breeze, and I can enjoy the holidays, and get into the spirit a tad more. Anyway, enough complaining. This picture will have to suffice for now. Isn't he cute? He's always hiding out under my tree guarding our presents.

Thanksgiving this year..

Tom and Celeste were kind enough to host Thanksgiving this year. Not to mention let us stay with them. We had such a great time relaxing, shopping, chatting, and well eating everything in sight. (Okay, that might have just been me.)

Wednesday night after work there was talk of some bad roads, so we almost didn't go. But in the end decided we would probably be okay if we took it slow. The roads were actually really clear until a stretch of road near Pocatello that was pretty icy. In the end we only tacked on an extra half hour to our trip with the weather.

Thursday morning we got up and started prepping all the yummy food. Tom and Bob made two of the best turkeys I think I've ever eaten, and Nita made mashed potatoes I loved so much I could have bathed in them. And Celeste pretty much did everything else. Sometimes I wonder if she's Wonder Woman in disguise.

Dinner was fabulous and filling, just as a Thanksgiving should be.

After dinner we cleaned up, did a little relaxing, and a little chatting while the food digested.

We felt so lucky this holiday to be surrounded with family and loved ones. Bob's grandparents even took the drive out to come to dinner. It's always fun to see them. We also got to visit with Bob's sister Donna, her husband Lance and their darling little Madelaine.

We were sad not everyone could come because of weather, especially Bob's parents and brother, but we felt incredibly blessed and thankful for all we have. Even though the holiday seems to be all about the food, I tried to keep thanks in my heart for all I have. For an amazing husband, family on both sides, for friends, for shelter, for the big things, for the little things, and for all the things in between. I think these pictures sum up just what we should all be grateful for. Our blessings.

Well happy December 1st! Glad it's here, and am a little skerrred about all I have to do, hoping I can do it all in time. But I suppose it wouldn't be the holidays without being busy.

Thanksgiving in Idaho Falls

Hello, hello. We just got back late last night from our trip to Idaho Falls for the holiday. We ate, (understatement of the century) we spent time with family, (missed everyone who couldn't come) celebrated a birthday, did some festive decorating, and relaxed.

We're sad we had to come back to reality, since it was so nice just chillaxing. But we're happy to be home and playing in the snow. I am currently listening to Christmas music and getting ready for December, which is bound to be busy, busy.

Back tomorrow with pictures from our trip.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope everyone has a safe, yummy holiday. See you back here Monday with pictures from our adventures. Happy Turkey Day! {That's one of Bob's famous smoked turkeys pictured above. You haven't had turkey til you've had the smoked variety. I love this holiday!}

{Early} Thanksgiving

I think I can sum up my families early Thanksgiving in three pictures..
We gave thanks. We ate. Then the tryptophan set in. Can't wait to do it all again in just a couple short days!

Halloween Party

I have always felt for the most part that Halloween is kind of a kids holiday. I have had fun Halloween's in the past, but have never really gotten into it since I have been an adult. Well this year I changed all that. I realized that most of my friends have kids and would be taking them trick or treating. So I decided to get some childless friends together this year, and throw a little dinner party. (Well except for Ami and Jon, but their kids are older, so it worked out that they could come.)

I hand delivered my invites.. (yes those are fingers.. find the recipe here.)

And then I got to brainstorming on some spooky decorations and details. (I must admit Martha helped me out.)

I bought pumpkins, and gutted them so we could serve soup in them. Bob made some yummy skewers, and poppers. And then the guests brought yummy side dishes to add to the meal.

After dinner we played a couple games, chatted, and laughed a lot.

I realized after the party that for a lot of the pictures I had my camera on the wrong setting, so most of my pictures were pretty blurry and hazy. But I will just say I did it on purpose to make everyone look spooky and ghostly.

Among the group we had a white trash wedding. (Aubrie's pregnant), a witch, a match, and Cleopatra and Mark Antony. Everyone looked great.

I have to say we had a lot of fun this year. Thanks to everyone who came and made it so fun. Next party to think about? Our annual Christmas party. I think I might try to revel in this month first. Happy November!