A walk to the beach

My favorite part about anyplace is going to the Beach, so here's a bunch of us going on a walk down to the beachfront

My favorite goofy 5 year old

What a marvelous night for a Moondance...I love that song, so had to take a picture of this dancing bear on someone's house.

and had to take a picture of this house simply because it's RED

How about this one, pretty nice, huh!

                                     

Moi!

Mon amour!

TRYING to get a family picture

Breathtaking!

Me and my buddy!

and my favorite 8 year old!

There, is THAT one better? More pics to come later, we accidentally erased them, so have to try to recover them, but they may or may not involve a certain someone in this picture jumping in to the lake! Any guesses on WHO?

A Tahoe Thanksgiving

First off we were supposed to stay at this house, but the craziest thing happened, a bear broke in to the house the very day we were supposed to arrive, yep, broke the door down and ransacked the house, A BEAR! Apparently it's a big problem over there in Lake Tahoe.

So we ended up finding this cabin in the same neighborhood, call it an UPGRADE. Ken's mother did all the arrangements, many thanks to her for hosting 18 people in one house for Thanksgiving!

They found this picture of George Washington and decided to bring it out for the Thanksgiving Prayer

Ken and I were in charge of the turkey, that means KEN got to get up at 7am and get this turkey cooking.

the other goodies

and more

This was just HALF of the table

Vivian has been waiting awhile now for pomegranates to come back in to season!

Hint #1 that the family that owned the home was actually LDS

The kids made a mini snowman on the balcony

One of the guest rooms

I just like this

Our king size bed

and jacuzzi tub, yes I used it!

Now I want a laundry room with a sink and counter, SO nice to work in!

I could also cook in this kitchen all day, 2 dishwashers, convection oven,  and all the appliances you would need!

The kids made a gingerbread house that Grandpa brought. the gingerbread was even from Germany.

And our favorite little cousin Daisy! She was the highlight of our trip!

Halloween 2011

My sister always throws the coolest parties, this was a Harry Potter party!

The kids made broomsticks

NOT my baby, but too cute not to take a picture!

The FEAST!

complete with dry ice effects!

Ready to go trick or treating!

Natasha was a Goddess

Keilani was a peacock

Zane and his cousin were Transformers and Kalel was a pirate

All the Applegates

All because two people fell in love!

The girls with their cousin

and the boys with their cousin.

Fun times!