The Sandersons

Thanksgiving came and went which is sad because I love this holiday. We had dinner at my parents house and just relaxed.

While Boyce was hunting it snowed for the first time. Julian was so excited for the snow because he wanted so badly to make a snowman. So that is just what we did.

Now that Football and Julian's birthday is over Boyce needed a much needed vacation from things so he went to Kentucky to hunt with his friend Drew for 2 weeks. He didn't get one but I think he had fun.

I can't believe how fast time goes. My baby is already 5 years old today. We had a big party for him with his pre-school class at Classic Fun Center on the bouncers and the jungle maze. He is all about Spongebob so we had the Spongebob theme room and a Spongebob cake for him. They all had a blast, and boy did we all sleep good that night.

This year Boyce gave out the "Golden Hammer" for the hardest hitter. He made a football out of wood and laced it up and mounted the golden hammer on it. It was so cool. Brody Hyde (who was a first time player) received the award for the hardest hitter, but he was an all around great player.

We held the Football party at Boondocks this year. The kids played and ate pizza and everyone received a trophy. Here is Cordell with the Coaches Boyce and Ron at the awards party.

How cute our kids were on Halloween. Callen was a bottle of Ketchup, Cordell was a sumo wrestler, Princess Swan and Julian was Darth Vader again.

Then on to Jerry Gomez's house for the remainder of the night. That party was CRAZY! Here is a picture of the host Jerry Gomez as Gold medalist Michael Phelps and another Wonder Woman (not Cheryl).

We went to April's party first and met up with Gary and Kim.

We have made it to Halloween. Boyce's favorite holiday I think it is because he has crazy costumes! Here we are with my brother Mike and his wife Cheryl before hitting 2 parties that night.

Cordell decided to have a small Halloween party at our house this year. They played pin the moustache on the skeleton, bobbed for apples and broke a pinata. They had pizza and watched Coraline.

We did some sight seeing through Yellowstone, it was so nice to just enjoy the ride. We stopped at Old Faithful (a geyser) and rested a while before leaving the Park.

The weather was really warm on the way up to Jackson which was really nice. We stayed the night in Jackson and when we woke up it was freezing! The whole ride from Jackson Hole to Yellowstone was cold. I have never felt so cold before.

On our way to Jackson Hole we drove by this gorgeous river -

This is us resting our bottoms at Bear Lake.

ROAD TRIP! - We took our first motorcycle road trip this month to Yellowstone. I was excited to go, it is pretty fun riding on the back of the bike.

Here is the last boat trip we made in 2009. We went to East Canyon and it was a bit chilly but the kids enjoyed playing on the shore.

Boyce turns the big 40!

I tried to surprise him with a party at our house but he figured it out. It is impossible to surprise him. He had fun and alot of his friends showed up to support the OLD MAN! His sister even brought over a speed limit sign with the number 40 on it and put it in the front yard. I thought it was stolen and that we were going to get in trouble but Boyce assured me it was a joke from someone.

The cabin is so relaxing. We love going up there and hanging out.

We did some 4wheeling while we were up there.

Of course dad had to pick up a snake. The kids loved it!

Time flys when you are having fun. It is now Labor Day weekend and we decide to go to Boyce's Sisters Cabin with the family for a couple of days. We have a Football game on Saturday and have to be at a Soccer tournament on Monday so it was a short visit but we needed the new scenery. We head up there after Cordell's game and end up hitting a deer with the Truck. How scary that was! It didn't seem like it did alot of damage but it sure was weird.

Julian loves soccer and he picked his oldest brothers number again this year #13. It was funny watching him play because he was always running to the goal and protecting that instead of going for the goal. I guess he knows the game pretty well.

Boyce Coached the Football team again this year with help from my brother Mike and his friend Ron. Cordell had fun as always and loves the sport.

Sports, Sports and more Sports. This fall we had Callen in Comp. Soccer, Cordell in Football and Julian in outdoor Soccer.

As you know Boyce is the Weeblos Scout Leader and he had 8 boys receive the Arrow of Light award this year, and Cordell was one of them.

Courtney turns 19!! She decides she wants a swim party at our house with some friends. Some of her friends cracked us up, even cracked the neighbors up.

There were quite of bit of people up there (most of them have cabins/houses) so it was nice to be able to all hook up for the day.

Cori and I on the boat, enjoying -

The second day we were able to get the boat in the water (by tractor) we were only out for a couple of hours though. Here is Maddi (Cori and Travis daughter) wake surfing on Bear Lake.

Here is Mr. Ham at Cori's parents house.

While relaxing on the beach we entered the kids in a sand sculpting contest. Here they are hard at work.

Back to back Lake trips. Off to Bear Lake we went for the fourth of July. Our friends get together every 4th and hang out so we joined them again. We brought the windy weather and they were not letting people launch their boats because of it; so we hung at the beach. We were able to put the boat in the water on the second day.

Here are the girls - Cori, Andrea and me.