the last of the 50's

Lookin at a new decade, Grandma Nori turns 59. "I'm old, I'm old", she was heard to utter. I suppose next year we will have to really celebrate the big 60.

Mia Is Now 4!!!

We had a great birthday for our Mia. She had a princess cake of course and then she opened up her very first doll house! It wasn't quite like the one Dad made for Cami, but she loved it nonetheless.

Thanksgiving Day Pictures!

Here are some of our pictures from Thanksgiving!

Mia's Dance Recital

Mia had her 1st dance recital. She won for the cutest one there! Holy cow, I never thought I would love to see ballet until now!

Christmas Season

This happened a while ago, but this is us decorating the tree. We actually did this the Monday after Thanksgiving. It was as crazy as ever. We had 10 strands of lights that did NOT work. I finally decided to just go to the store, buy new lights, and hung them over the top of the bad ones that were wired into the tree.

Respite Care Ball

We really ought to make going out as adults without the kids more than an annual event. :) I still can't believe Danny didn't show at his own company's table-- a free dinner no less!-- but I've had words with him, and if he doesn't get a date next year, I'll set him up with my hair dresser so he can be there too. Richards, we missed you as well. And your kids missed out on having Connor babysit them... they could have stayed up 'til midnight! :)









Adam may be better than Derek at a lot of things, but not the Charleston. So who thinks Adam will be taking dance lessons this year?

When Abba comes on, look out-- Alyson is The Dancing Queen.

The dancing was fun, but I don't know if anything could top these guys. The auctioneers were incredibly entertaining, not to mention lucrative. I think they even put the Micromachines spokesman to shame.

I know the Weaver men like to gripe about getting dressed up and going to this dinner every year, but you've got to admit, it's pretty cool to have played such a major part in this annual community tradition that has brought some of the same people together for 25 years.

I only wish I would have recorded Fred as the MC... especially when he referred to a certain someone as "BO"-- and a group of people unwittingly cheered.

It was a great night. Even Derek admitted to having fun, even though he did try to convince all of us to ditch the event to go see "Quantum of Solace."

Thanksgiving Day Plans!

Hey Everyone! I've been told that we need to be brainstorming ideas for fun stuff to do this week, so I've been thinking. In addition to going to see Bolt, (for which we turned down an invitation to a birthday party which held a private showing in the theater for one of Ethan and Reid's friends, just so we could wait and see it with all of you!), here are a few more ideas:

* Ethan would really like to do another Untalent Show. Anyone game? Mention it to your kids and get them thinking of ideas...

* My kids and I would like to do the turkey trot in Old Town... is anyone else up for it? I know Cami is having gum surgery Wednesday, and I have no idea what the recovery is like for that.... anyway, here is the link for the registration http://admin.timberlinetiming.com/TurkeyDocs/2008App.pdf or http://www.timberlinetiming.com/index.cfmaction=dspClientHome&clientid=10&showBanner=1 If we decide to do it, I'd like to sign up by Wednesday because it's less expensive than on race day. There is a kids' "Gobble Gobble" run which is 1/3 mile or four city blocks long. It's free, and starts around 8:45 am. The main race is 4 miles, starts at 9:00 am, and any kids 12 and under who want to run it with their parents can run for free in that race as well.

Derek is working from Tuesday morning through Wednesday morning (cross your fingers that he'll get some sleep that night) so he probably won't make it for the race and may need to go home to sleep for a while before joining us later in the day.

* We need to hold a gift exchange drawing for the cousins sometime that we are all together.

* FYI Derek works Friday and Sunday (but not Saturday). My sisters are in town until Saturday morning, so my kids and I will be going to Denver Friday to spend time with my family. We will come back Friday night unless we plan on moving the party down to Parker Saturday... Little Weavers, how long were you planning on staying in FC? Richards', you're leaving Sunday, right?

* I think a game night would be fun, but I guess that depends on how much energy any of us have at the end of the day.... Richards, do you want to bring your Settlers game? We have ours too...

Can't wait to see you all!