Happy Thanksgiving 2010!

We had a great Thanksgiving this year. All of my family met up in Cedar City at my sister Liz's house. We all stayed in a huge company building with a basketball court, racket ball court, video game room, pool and ping pong table......all 26 grand kids were in heaven.

Our trip started with a visit to our great friends the Shipp's house in Las Vegas........We love the Shipp's, awesome family! This is a picture of Julie and I, we escaped for an hour to hit one of my favorite stores "Down East Basics". It was SOOOO windy that night, the picture doesn't do it justice!

The next day we hit Cedar City and it was cold!! Thursday morning it was 1 degree! That is something my body is not used too. The kids were thrilled to see snow!

The kids throwing a snowball....

So happy to see each other....Brynn, Payton, Maddi, Kennedy

Game room hang out!

We went to St. George and swam in their in-door aquatic center. The kids had a ball!

On our Family Christmas exchange night, the kids got a surprise visitor!! So cute!

Kamryn a little creeped out by Santa!

Drew's smile is priceless!!

Luke and Santa

Kennedy and Santa

Brynn feeling a little too old....

The girls got their ears pierced along with my sister Jenna and her daughter Londyn. They were SOOOOO excited for this day!

Brynn right before....

All of us crammed in Claire's Store waiting for Kennedy's big moment!

Kennedy with her new ears! Notice my brother in the back round.....he posed like that in all the pictures. We called him the earring stocker!

Sister's with new ears!

The Ear Piercing Group!

Brynn, Kennedy, Jenna, Londyn

Later that night we had dancing and the sisters got a little crazy!

Hmmmmm, I am wondering what all the nieces and nephews were thinking, or even our husbands? You gotta love a sister that can have fun!

All the granddaughters

All the grandson's

All the daughters and in-law's (can you tell who is related by the hair? All in-law's blonde, sister's brown)

All the brother's and in-law's

I love the cheesy portrait style Trent is doing!

I love my family, we have such a warm connection together. I am so thankful.....

Look Whose 5yrs old!

My Drew Boo is 5yrs old! We celebrated a friends party in October so we could still use the pool. It was his first birthday party and was so excited.

Rhett Bough, Conah Garcia, Murphy, Pearce Brown, Drew, and Landon

These boys know eachother from preschool, the gym, and church.


This is his real birthday morning with the family.......star wars theme.

We had already had 2 cakes so we were going easy with the cupcakes!

Drew you are such a joy to have in our home, I am so glad I get to call you my little boy!

Last day at Disneyland

Our passes were expiring in one day so we decided to give Disneyland a whirl one more night. We had a great time and met up with my brother Clint and his kids. We get passes every other year and on the last day we let our kids pick a souvenir. They were so excited. Brynn got a charm bracelet, Kennedy got a shirt, Luke and Drew got "Pirate of the Caribbean" swords, and Kamryn got a baby Dumbo that she calls "Bumbo".

Mickey & Salisbury Kids

Main Street & Main Street Tree

Tea Cups & Mr. Toad Car

Dumbo or as Kamryn says "Bumbo ride"

We will miss our family nights at Disneyland......what will I ever post about now?

Double Fun Disneyland!

We had such a fun time at Disneyland this night. My sister Liz was in town with her kids vacationing at Disneyland, and so was one of my bestest friends Kristen Decker and her family. So we were able to see 2 of my favorite people in one night......

Salisbury, Marshall, and Decker Kids (a few missing)
Brynn and Kenzi

Kennedy was missing because she did not want to be taken out of school that day. She is trying to get perfect attendance this year again. She is our self disciplined little girl(she will skip recess to finish homework on nights she knows are going to be busy). She was in luck that night because Clint came later with his kids an brought her to us.

Meredith & Kristen

Jeremy & Liz (my little sis), Meredith & Travis

Family shot at CA Adventure

So afterward we decided to go to dinner, but the Decker's car was at their hotel. SO after brainstorming we just decided to squish in our car and we would drive them to their hotel. There were 14 people in the mini van. We ate at Red Robin where it was nice an loud to accommodate our 10 kids.

There are STILL 4 missing heads in this shot.

We love it every time the Decker's come to play, making us wish we lived a bit closer, and hoping our next visit is a bit sooner!

Halloween Time 2010

Halloween time at the Salisbury's is always exciting because that means the beginning of the Holidays........it's so fun to see the kids faces when they come home from school and are so thrilled to see holiday decorations up in the house.

Monday night we had a fun FHE carving pumpkins and "Booing" neighbors with treats.....I must of bought a bad bunch of pumpkins because they all rotted days later. Only one made it to Halloween night. Drew still has not forgiven me for throwing away his mushy pumpkin!

On Friday we decided to do a family "spooky" dinner, watch a spooky movie, and camp in the back yard with dad. The kids loved it. Travis was in character the whole night, with a accent and all!

The Menu had: Wrapped Mummies (wrapped hotdogs), Cheesy Snails (alfredo shell noodles), witch fingers (string cheese), monster teeth (apples with almond slivers), dirty worms (gummy worms in chocolate pudding) and to drink: spider blood (rootbeer), pumpkin guts (orange soda), or Ghost mix (milk)

Monster Teeth & Witch Fingers

Camping in the backyard....as mom got the Cal King bed to herself.

My kids knew this was going to be a different Halloween since it was on Sunday. After alot of thinking Travis and I decided we wanted our kids to learn something since it was on the Sabbath. So after some fun family time they got to pass out the candy to all the neighbors and "give" rather than "take". It's hard when they are little to try and explain this to them, but they all had really good attitudes about it. Some of our sweet neighbors brought over treats early for the kids because they knew we honor Sunday. I thought that was so sweet. On Halloween Eve the kids went to our ward Trunk or Treat and got loads of candy.

Salisbury's ready for Trunk or Treat!

Bunny Kam Kam

Drew the skinny skeleton

Luke my Power Ranger

Kennedy really wanted to go "Goth Girl"

Brynn the Modern Ballerina

Travis the baseball catcher

I hope my kids look back on this Halloween and remember there was something special about it. It was different than all the others. I am so grateful for my kids being understanding about the sabbath day.