Thanksgiving 2008 in Telluride, Co with my sister Lucy, her husband David, and their kids Emma Lee (named after you know who) and Trueman (who turned 1 this past August) The hotel we stayed at was really great for our special needs having five kids and four adults. This is us taking the golf cart over to the gondola.
This is us riding the gondola up to the top of the mountain to eat at "Allreds"
This picture is the only group shot we got and you can see it was ridiculous!
Ryan's Kindergarten Poem
Furry, furry, squirrel
hurry hurry hop
scurry up the tree trunk
to the very top.
When you reach the branches
hurry turn around.
Furry Furry squirrel,
scurry to the ground.
Okay so it's our time of year. I feel like I have to post stuff every day cause there is so much going on. Allen's birthday was Nov 8th. I planned a romantic evening up in Park City. We stayed the night at the Stein Erickson Lodge at Deer Valley. The reservation "package" came with a three course dinner at the restaurant there so even though Allen loves Ruth's Chris we decided to eat the free meal and save some cheezers. It was NOT good. Here is a picture of my ridiculous dessert. Allen and I couldnt stop laughing at how ugly it was. After the meal we already ate I was not surprised to see this dessert come out. Now I watch Top Chef and I know this dish should have that chef "packing his knives and going"
So the school kept sending home reminder notes about this PTA Reflections contest. I think its a yearly nation wide deal and it sounded like everyone participated. Sooo I sat Ryan down at the table one day two week ago and said "pain something!" So here comes in the mail a letter saying RYan "WOWed the judges" and won Honorable Mentions in his visual arts category. So I was thinking that everyone wins an honorable mention award for just submitting something but when we show up a lady standing there said Ryan won second and acted like it was this huge big deal. He ended up winning second in Visual Arts out of a ton of entries. (They said they had over 200 entries for the whole thing but I have no idea how many of those are visual arts) It was this great big ceremony and Ryan had to go up twice to receive his prizes. Luckily Allen had his iphone to take some pictures.Who would have thought?
We had two princess parties in two days. One for my niece Reily on Friday and Presley on Sat. Lucy and my mom flew in from Texas and I was so glad I got to totally wear them out before sending them home again.
Big Bad Wolf
Scary Skeleton, Big Bad Wolf, Little Red Ridding Hood
