SDMI Holiday Party 2015

Every year my work puts on a huge Holiday party at the Suncoast Casino. This year's theme was Prom. We voted for a prom king and queen. Also each department donated a gift basket to be raffled off. Ours was a money basket with lotto tickets. There was also a Peanut basket and a couple of Star Wars baskets. We also celebrated everyone's anniversaries. Here are some pictures of the night:

The Accounting gang

We were lucky this year and my coworker and I both won gift baskets. My coworker won the one we donated. It was pretty funny.

And I won a little chocolate basket.

It was a great party and I'm looking forward to next years.

Decking the Halls....

I love the Christmas season. And this year I decided to break down and get a actual tree. The day after Thanksgiving my new Christmas tree arrived in the mail. I was so excited and my cousin Kaytie went with me shopping to get some new ornaments to hang on my tree.

Then I spent the next day pulling out the rest of my decorations. Here was the result:

 Then on Monday I helped my parents decorations their house.

Time for the season to begin!!

Thanksgiving 2015

This year for Thanksgiving we had a huge crowd over. My cousin Kaytie and her family live in Lehi, UT and they decided to come down for the weekend. And my cousin John and his family, who live in LA, also decided to come. Then my dad got a call from my Uncle Randy and Aunt Jenny, who live in Oregon, saying they wanted to come as well....we ended up having 17 people over. Six children under the age of six...it was fun chaos.

The trees in front of my parents house were beautiful and really made it feel like Thanksgiving time. Can't have the holiday without a little color in the trees:

 

Everyone started arriving on Wednesday night. And of course my dad got out his "Big Bear" for the kiddos:

Thanksgiving morning we went on a "Huff n Puff before we Stuff" walk/run at one of our many parks.

 

Then the cooking and crafting started. It was nice having access to my two ovens. Cooking for that many people was made easy with two kitchens. So while the turkey was cooking in my mom's oven, I was cooking rolls and casseroles in mine.

Here are some pictures of the fun:

Turkey crafts to keep the kiddos occupied.

My cousin John was in charge of the Turkey cooking

It turned out amazing

Here are the rolls I made and cooked....yummy

Doug made the jello...and pored out the cranberry sauce

 

The kids put together this fun turkey

Kids table

Yum yum

The day was a full of yummy food and several pies....fun board games and good company. On Black Friday we only went to a couple of stores...and then later in the afternoon we took a hike to the "Big Foot" by Red Rock Canyon.

Jen, Izzy, Mom

Kaytie, John and Ace

Me

 

Ellie, Jared, Annie, Dad

See the foot?

It was really chilly walking up to it but it was fun to see. And it was good working off some of the food and pies we had the day before.

It was pretty awesome getting to see everyone. The crowd all left on Saturday and it got really quiet really quick. All and all fun times.