last weekend

This past weekend we went to Alpine for the Open House of Nick and Ellysa. They were married on Dec. 27th in Texas. Nick is Carolyn's Nephew. I was asked to make the cakes. I made 7 of them and froze them and took them to the hotel to frost and decorate. On Saturday morning while I was frosting the cakes, Dad and Carolyn took the girls over to the Dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving point. We stayed at the Marriot next door. McKenna and Ellyce were able to make some things with plaster.

Grandpa was there to help. What a great Grandpa he is. I don't know what we would do without him!


This is at the open House. It was held at a Cousin of the Bride's father's home in Alpine. It was a beautiful home.

Here is Nick and Ellysa with the girls. They came to Cedar in the summer with another couple and played with the girls on the back lawn. The Girls had a great time. They even had Nick trying to do a back bend.

Here is a picture of the cakes that were displayed. I made four other cakes that they could cut and serve. the Carrott cakes went first. they were all gone by 6:00. so they cut into these.

Here I am trying to get them finished before the guests arrived.

Nick and Grandpa.

It was sure nice to go but it was even better to get home!

Happy New Year!

For New Years we went to My Mom's house and spent the weekend. We played games and ate junk food. Shame on us. Carolyn ended up gaining back 7 pounds and I gained back 10. We then came home and got back on the diet wagon and lost what we had put on plus each of us has lost an additional pound. So Carolyn is at 58 pounds and I am at 56 pounds.

Here is a picture of Will and Jamie on new years outside during the fireworks.

Here is Michelle passing out fireworks.

Carolyn and the back side of Clairissa

Here is part of the family out watching the fireworks put on by the city.

Carolyn and the girls

Here I am with the girls. it was so cold! but it was colder in Cedar.

When I was growing up my parents had a tradition that on New Years night the New Years Fairy would come and leave a bowl of nuts on the table with change in it. She would also bring a toy or what ever. My parents used it to give the gifts that they had missplaced for Christmas and couldn't find on Christmas eve. Anyway, here is what we got from the New years Fairy. Carolyn and I gave each other a necklace and a ring that we had given each other another time and that the girls hadn't seen. The girls got books and a doll for Ellyce of TinkerBell. Loads of fun.

Cleola turns 50

On Dec. 30th we went to St. George for a surprise party for Cleola. Kim, our cute niece put together a surprise party for her 50th birthday. It was so fun. Cleola is my sister in-law. She is always doing for others and it was fun to see her get surprised. Cleola is the Relief society president in her ward and they had the bishop call her to his office on her birthday to discuss some of the things in the ward. She said that it was her birthday and wanted to know if she could come another night. The Bishop told her that he really needed to talk to her. Once she was there they talked about a few things and then the Bishop brought her down to the Relief Society room to look for a place to hang another picture. We were all there waiting to surprise her. It was great! She had no clue that we were there. I was asked to bring a cake for 50 people. So I made a carrott cake and frosted it with black frosting. I took some dead roses and spray painted them black and put them and some black ribbon on the cake.

This first picture is of Charlie, her husband watching for her to come around the corner so he could alert us all of her coming.

This is some of the family setting up the dinner table.
Here is Cleola, cutting the cake.

This is when she first came in the room.

Here is the cake. Have you ever tried to make black frosting? I hadn't before. What a challenge. Needless to say I was worried that it would turn everyones mouth black or purple, but it didn't.

Happy birthday Cleola.