Thanksgiving 2010

Can you say busy?!

Manda came over and showed us how to make pies. They were awesome! She made apple and pecan pies.

Dex made it really hard to stay focused on getting things ready for dinner. It was much more fun to play with him than cook. We had pies going, rolls, potatoes, and of course the turkey. My kitchen was totally trashed, but got everything made.

First stop: the Jenson dinner

Rachel and Deena

Mike and Manda

Dorleen and Wayne

Cristian, Derek, and Brandon

Jeff and Julie

Teri and Greg

Dex

Cohlton, Jordan and Chenelle

Dean and EJ

Braden

Rachel, Deena and Kami

Cohlton

Cristian and Dex

Rachel, Kaycee and Deena

Next stop: the Ellis dinner

Ej

the Dexter

Cameron, Dex, Ali, Caitlyn and Deaner


Lots of basketball
(thanks Chris and Laura for letting me use your photos)

Home to play with the Jeff and Julies. We got to have them stay at our house. Their kids were so great with Dexter

Dex kind of got himself trapped under the kitchen table. Don't know how he got in there, but he couldn't get himself out!

Next morning was the annual "Day after Thanksgiving Jenson bowling"

Dex getting ready to go out and face the cold!
Now everyone is gone, and our "empty nest" is empty again. It was so fun to have everyone here! Can hardly wait till Christmas when kids will be back!

The top photo was taken in October, the bottom photo was taken in November...he's been busy!

It was the best of times....

As Charles Dickens put it, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times" That quote describes this race perfectly!
Dean, Braden, Julie, and Ashley, one of Julie's friends, were all doing the full marathon, I was running the half. Marathoners caught their bus at 5:30 am. Half marathoners were an hour later, at 6:30 am.
Everyone was excited about the race. Each of us having different goals. Dean wanted to beat his St. George marathon time. Julie wanted to try running it taking walk breaks. Braden wanted to finish, he was sick at the time. I wanted to see if I could run a half without training. I've had some health issues that made it so I couldn't run the last 4 weeks.
The marathoners said everything was fine until about mile 10. Then the winds started to pick up. That was about the time the half marathon was starting.
I have never run in such strong winds. The wind blew extremely hard right into our faces all morning. Add the hills to it, and it was miserable!
The second half of the marathon is the same route as the half marathon, so Braden, Dean, Julie and Ashley got to experience the same thing.
Knowing that the times were going to be terrible, everyone decided to just enjoy the run. Apparently the marathoners all had a great time, walking/running, joking with people along the way....it was the "best of times". Dean said at the end of the race, this was the most fun I have ever had in a race.
We all got the slowest times ever! Thus...it was the "worst of times". It still felt great to have finished this race, with it being a hard course, and having to run into the wind for 90% of the race, it was a great accomplishment.
Julie, in black, looks just a little excited to be at the finish line.

Braden and Dean approaching the finish line.


These guys all ran the full marathon!

Julie and her friend Ashley


Erika, Braden, Dean and Julie

"we had the best of times, and got the worst of times"

Rogerson's photos 11-13-10

I got to take pictures of Dex's buddy Cooper and Cooper's parents. Such a cute family!