Life with the Gerritsen's: 2013

Saturday, November 30, 2013

ThAnKsGiViNg!

Our family had a fun family night where we thought of blessings we are grateful for with letters from the alphabet. So here is the list we put together
A is for Alex & apples

B is for Ben, boys, bread & baseball

C is for candy, cousins, chocolate, cars, clothes, church, coats & cottage cheese
D is for Dad & doctors
E is for electricity, engines, eggs & energy
F is for family, food & fire engines

G is for grandparents, guns & God
H is for helmets, hospitals & home
I is for Isaac, ice cream, inhaler & ice

J is for Jesus Christ, Jennifer, Jeremy & juice

K is for Kelloggs, knives & karate
L is for ladder, lacrosse, lunch, Larry & love
M is for Mom, medicine, mountains, missionaries & music
N is for Nancy & nebulizer
O is for oatmeal & oranges
P is for plumbing, porsches, pianos, Primary, Priesthood Power, pizza & pictures
Q is for quilts & Quickies
R is for rice, red, Robert Bolar & righteousness
S is for sushi, sleds, salt, snow, salsa, showers, stripes & scriptures
T is for tithing, TV, turkey, time, trains & trumpet
U is for uniform, uncles, Utah & the Utes
V is for van, vehicles & vacations
W is for watches, walnuts, Washington & wind
X is for X-ray
Y is for Yellowstone, bYu, yellow & yachts
Z is for Zion & the Zoo

Quite the list but we are especially grateful for our family & we were able to spend Thanksgiving at Uncle Greg's & Aunt Kelly's house with Grandma & Grandpa Gerritsen and Uncle Steve.

the kids showing our pilgrim hat place settings

cute Nathan!

Where the adults got to sit

the kids made cookie turkeys

Addy with her turkey

Isaac with his turkey

Jumpin in leaves

Isaac helped me rake leaves one day but he first took advantage of the pile of them to jump in!

Pack meeting

Jeremy received his first pins as a Webelo!

First snow of the season! Yea for sledding & snowboarding!

Alex's turn

Isaac's turn

Jeremy's first time to take his snowboard we found at a yard sale out

Yea for Brent Taylor!

For the past 6 months, Dad has been helping our former neighbor and friend Brent Taylor, to run for Mayor of North Ogden. Dad has spent many a night and Saturday afternoon visiting and campaigning

with Brent. And it all paid off. Brent was elected and a big party was thrown to celebrate. We are so proud of dad for all he did!

Uncle Steve

We were able to celebrate Uncle Steve's birthday at Grandma & Grandpa's. We love you Uncle Steve!

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Trip to Idaho

This past weekend, myself and the boys went up to Idaho to visit my sister Cindy and her husband Bruce. Ben was out of town on business to San Francisco, California for almost a week. So I thought it would be a good to go and see my sister because the boys have wanted to go fishing with her and her husband and we didn't get up there in the summer. So they took us fishing in a town right next to theirs called Burley. They live in Paul. Jeremy caught a sucker fish but when he and Bruce were trying to pull it out of the water, the line broke. But it was fun for the boys anyway. We also got to go to a fun pizza place the night we stayed there and then on the way home on Sunday, we stopped by the Golden Spike. Even though I grew up in the area it is in, I have never been out there. It was fun for the boys to see but pretty far out there in the middle of no