A Beautiful Family Portrait

I connected with a college friend recently and found that she makes a real cool family holiday card. She's been doing this for her family and has had so many requests from people that she is making a go at doing this for others. If you like the family art style below and would like to drawing made for your family click on this link or click on the picture below:

To see her entire gallery of samples, click here

Family Gathering - Sanders in Lehi

Last Sunday we met as an extended family since my parents were in town and others for the two weddings that were in our extended family last week. Here's many of the family sitting around taking it easy.


Notice the material tied around the heads of Ashlyn and Sydney, the older girls were inside doing a fashion shoot most of the time. Then there's a picture of my father and my Uncle Brent.

Here's a picture of Dallin and I when we were playing SPUD. In the background is my brother Scott and my daughter Cassie.

Here's a picture of my cousin Ben and my cousin Steve running past my niece Madison. We were playing bomb.


I got a picture of my niece Meikela and there's a picture of me holding McKay. McKay got hit in the face with the ball. Behind McKay and I is my brother Scott.



Here's a picture of my cousin Mike. We were playing BOMB and while he was going for the ball he re-twisted his ankle. It's an old injury. I took a picture of my cousin Mike's ankle as well it looks pretty bad.


Next door to my brother's house the family is raising some frogs. Lots of frogs....

Here's some of the tadpoles that are turning into frogs. Then there's a picture of Hannah with here cousin Madison making some entertaining faces.

What's Been Happening?!

On Monday night we had a fire out in the back of our yard in the fire pit. We invited a neighbor family over and enjoyed their kids company. (Only their two youngest could make it over.) We roasted marshmellows and made some S'Mores. Also the kids roasted starburst candies. If we could have a fire everyday McKay would not complain.

Thanks to our brilliant daughter Cassie we were able to go out to eat for dinner on Tues. at Cafe Rio. Cassie earned some free dinner cards from school. We had a neighbor kid with us that night as well. Julie and I switched vehicles after we ate because it was date night for Julie and Sydney.

On Wed. the big event in the evening was Fugitive for YM/YW. We dropped our youth off at a bldg. not too far from ours and gave them a head start to get to our bldg. without being detected. I think the youth did pretty good at this game. I only caught a couple of them this year. In the past I caught many more.

Thursday, while I was hoping that Julie wasn't going to have to work, she had to work. McKay an I went up with our scooters to a rock pile we had been up to on Wed. night. We were shooting McKay's air rocket off at the park in the Ivory homes neighborhood. McKay was interested in making sparks with the rock in the rock pile. We couldn't get any rocks to spark so we instead road our scooters in the Stk. Center parking lot.

Re-Discovering Discovery Park

Cassie and MacKay are hanging around, Mackay and Caleb are taking a spin, the teenagers are striking a pose, and Nathan and Cassie are saying, Hey! This was probably the warmest day of the year, we got close to 70%.