The Rest of President's Day Weekend...

Saturday night Amy & I put together two of the

Pumpkin French Toast Bake

& the

Sausage Breakfast Casserole

recipes I had made for Christmas morning...

it was PERFECT for our Sunday morning.

No work.

Just a good hearty breakfast!

 Church was a 1pm.

 

We were delighted to find when we got there that it was the mission farewell of Brock Larson, one of the young men in our ward that the Sorensen's knew when they lived here.

It was a wonderful meeting!

 

Amy also got to be there with us as Cody was set apart as the new

Deacon's Quorum President

(finally a month later LOL)

We came home from church and prepared to enjoy the day together!

Amy made her Mom-in-Law Jo's famous French Bread recipe

to go with a huge lasagna and 2 huge salads.

She also attempted to copy the bread from the Italian restaurant the night before...

she is GOOD! It was pretty darn close!

YUM! 

While Jes worked on some math homework, and the Mom's made dinner, the others worked on one of the puzzles that Cam got for his birthday 

Dinnertime!!

(Someday we will so adore this cute photo of Eva peeking over the height of the counter top in great anticipation!) 

After dinner it was time to play games!

Normally when we get together there are so many things that need to get done that we rarely get to just sit and play! This was CHOICE! :) 

Everyone played! 

 

Thanks for the new game for Christmas Katie & Greg!

The T-shirt Game

(similar to Apples to Apples)

was a hit! 

 

Ema's turn... 

Cody helping Caleb 

Hmmm... which one is best.... 

Caleb and Sam moved on to Dominoes (their way LOL) after the big game. 

These three snuck off to my room to play Disney "DVD Pictionary" 

Lookin' good guys! 

Eva found a puzzle just her size 

The *ahem* "older set" gathered to play "Greed"

(a.k.a. Farkle) 

We didn't do very good Daddy! 

Hmmm... which to keep... which to keep... 

Go Henry! 

Jestin has no luck at all when it comes to dice games...

No Las Vegas for him! LOL 

He gave up on a second round and went to play with Eva (his bud) 

Austin wandered off to a puzzle too...

I think he was determined to see it finished! LOL 

They are so sweet together! 

Little Eva has always liked to play with Jestin when she comes.

Austin got some help... and... 

TA-DA!

It was a toughie!

But everyone took a turn helping to build it.

 

The next morning, Austin & Amy took over cooking duty and treated us to Buttermilk Pancakes and sausage. I attempted to make some buttermilk syrup to go with it...

yeah... it did not turn out.

(Pictures/recipe to follow)

 

 

President's Day morning, Jestin had to work.

The kids played and played.

Amy & I ran off to do their traditional huge shopping trip to take home to Ely with them.

I could not stop getting all teary eyed. I didn't realize how much I missed just hanging out with *my* friend (without kids and hubbies). That sounds terrible, but really! It felt good to giggle and chat uninterrupted as girls while we shopped. FUN!

 

We were sad to see them load up and go home...

what a wonderfully fulfilling weekend we had!

THANK YOU

to our dear friends!!

WE  LOVE YA!