Sunday, November 25, 2007

For Thanksgiving we went down to Grandma and Grandpa Nash's cabin in Hatch. It was very cold, but a lot of fun to see the whole family together. All of the aunts, uncles, cousins, spouses and kids were there.
We ate tons of good food, played games, watched movies and won some cool prizes in the annual bingo game. Brent and Kelly brought their dog Roy-Boy and Rachel had a lot of fun with him. Here they are together, just before he jumped up and stole her lunch:

Here is Rachel chasing the dog around and trying to play with him:


We played the candy bar game and Rachel helped everyone out:

Cousins playing dominos:

The Dixie National Forest is short one White Fir tree because we cut one down and hauled it back north. (Actually Uncle Don cut it down and Mom and Dad hauled it on their van because it was a bit large to strap to the roof of the Elantra.) When we saw it, we thought it was the most perfectly shaped, best looking tree in the whole forest, but when we got it home it was pretty sad looking. Once we got the thing decorated and lit it up, it actually ended up looking pretty good:
The tree was originally about 15' tall, and our ceiling is only 9' so we had to cut a few feet off the bottom to make it fit. We took the branches and made a garland for the balcony:

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Rachel Dancing

Rachel has always loved to dance, and now that she can actually stand, walk and move about on her own, she has gotten much better at it. One of her favorite dance moves is spinning, which she does until she falls down, then gets up, spins, falls and repeats again and again and again until she falls and bonks her head or gets so dizzy that she can't stand anymore:


We've had a nice weekend together as a family, and are excited for our trip this week to Grandma and Grandpa's cabin in Hatch for Thanksgiving.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

American Airlines

American Airlines in the worst company -- airline or otherwise on the face of the planet. I am baffled that they are still in business after the customer service nightmare I've been through with them all this week.
They have messed up every part of the reservation I recently made. Seriously, they couldn't have been any worse if they had tried, and none of their employees seems to care at all. I'm not exaggerating when I say that each of the 10+ people I have talked to by phone over the past week has been rude and stupid. I'll walk to Florida before I ever consider buying a ticket from them again.