Boo

I had to add this picture of Katelyn and Boo sleeping. Boo loves to be touched and really doesn't mind people putting their heads on him.

Jean-Marc and Monique

Jean-Marc and Monique came to visit us for two weeks. A great time was had by all. We took them to Temple Square, Park City, Moab, Las Vegas, Festival of Trees, our Ward Christmas dinner, Gardner Village, Quilted Bear and the Gateway Mall. We also had some of Sasha's friend over for dinner so that Jean-Marc and Monique could meet them. The boys didn't stick around Jean-Marc and Monique very much but we really didn't expect them to hang out with the adults.

We went to dinner on our last Tuesday night together. We had a great time laughing at Sasha.

Monique cooked us a French meal.

The trip to Park City.

Park City again.

Jean-Marc and Monique brought a map of France so we spent an evening talking about different places in France.

P.S. Katelyn thinks I am a slow typer.

Thanksgiving

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year. David's brother, sister and I take turns hosting Thanksgiving. I was supposed to host Thanksgiving last year. Going to Ukraine became more important than having Thanksgiving, so last year we didn't host Thanksgiving. To make up missing last year I hosted year. Also, we decided that it was an important year to have Thanksgiving since we had Jean-Marc and Monique visiting from France and this will probably be my father-in-law's last Thanksgiving.

This is Jean-Marc holding a great nephew, Sam. His mother, Tricia (our neice) is sitting in the chair talking to her sister-in-law, Jaime. (Jean-Marc and Monique loved all of the little kids. I wish we would have taken more pictures of the little ones.)



Monique is playing with with Jaime and Michael's youngest daughter, Cambry.

This is Jean-Marc, Monique, my mother and father -in -law, sister-in-law (Delores), Tricia with her husband Jared and our brother-in-law (Earl). David's sister, Earl's wife, Mary had surgery the Monday before Thanksgiving so she was unable to come to dinner. Also, David's brother, Delores's husband, had to work so he wasn't there.

This is us just talking before dinner. Jean-Marc is handing off Sam to Sam's father, Jared. Monique and I are talking. Helen and Grant are having a great time watching everybody.

David - Draper's policeman of the year

David received Drapers Policeman of the Year award. Of course, he doesn't like to smile for the camera.

I had to add this picture. We love our dog, Boo. One of the many things that make us laugh at him on a regular basis is when we give him an object to hold in his mouth. He will proudly display his prize. He will come close to you to show you his prize but not close enough so that you can take his prize away from him. He will not chew on it. He will prance around the house with whatever it is he has. Now this is an almost 100 lb. dog prancing with his head held high. This can last for as long as 20 minutes. I hope you can visualize this and understand why we laugh.

Ukrainian hosting program

I have decided that if you need more of a social life, just be a part ot the Ukrainian hosting program and your whole life will change. Now I'm not saying that our social life is boring (and we still haven't hosted) but we were sure busy driving kids to see their friends. It was a lot of fun to see all of the kids together.

While the hosting program was going on, we were able to get several of the kids together. All of the kids were thrilled to see each other. It was amazing that our house is still standing though. The noise level was probabaly at the highest level it has ever been.

This is a rare picture of Pasha. He did not like to have his picture taken.

Rita and Tania



Rita and Sveta




Dasha, Lena and Tania

Rita, Dasha, Lena, Sveta and Tania

Katelyn's play

As many of us have discussed, it is always interesting when there is a new event to attend. Tomorrow night we are going to Hillcrest's play "Curtains". Both the kids do not understand what a play is. They have both asked if it is going to be like the fundraiser that we went to for band last year. That was the band and orchestra's Marti Gras. We had dinner and the two groups performed while we ate. After dinner we were able to dance to their music if we wanted to. Of course, we had both kids up dancing for one dance.

Anyway, try explaining a play to kids that really aren't trying to understand what a play is.

BREAKING NEWS

BREAKING NEWS! Tania actually ate HALF A HAMBURGER tonight! She is now eating pepperoni, hotdogs, chicken nuggets, chicken sandwiches that are fried and HAMBURGER. Maybe in six more months she'll move onto some other type of meat.

For those of you who don't know, Tania is an incredibly picky eater. She won't eat any meat except for what is listed above. She will eat potatoes except funeral potatoes because they don't have potatoes in it (according to Tania). She will eat salads. Her two favorite fast food places are Wendy's and Subway. At Wendy's she will eat the chicken nuggets and at Subway she gets a pepperoni sandwich. If we go to a sit down restaurant, she orders a salad and french fries. She will also eat bread, chips, candy and of course fruit.