Thanksgiving with The Sorensen's

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. Thanks so much to The Sorensen's for having us over for Thanksgiving. We were really blessed; we got to spend such an awesome Thanksgiving with them and Ben's parents Denny & Mani Sorensen. What a super cool family! Here we are in front of their fireplace. Look how big the kids are.
Ben, Greyson,Mauvia, Tate and Zoey Sorensen
We really like this family.

Denny & Mani. Mani makes the best rolls and pies ever!

Here are our hor'dourves.Playing games of course. Best part of the holidays.

Playing games all day and eating yummy food.

Here is the spread for our Thanksgiving Dinner.

We had so much food. That's what happens

when you have too many cooks in the kitchen.

Watching movies with Mani. (Aka Nana)

Here is one of the Settlers games. We also played

Sequence and Ticket to Ride. Way to much fun!

Check out the yummy pies. We had

pumpkin, Sweet potato pie, Apple, Chocolate,

Lemon Meringue, cherry, and pumpkin cheese cake,

and key lime pie. Yummy!!!!

Check out the cute leafs on the edge of my pie. Yes

indeed I cut all of those leafs for two pies. Super cute right?

How to Host a MURDER!!!

The Gumps (Amanda,& Matt) invited us over for a "How to Host a Murder" Mystery dinner party.

They went all out with the decorations and dinner.

It was a lot of fun. We laughed so hard our sides hurt.

The Whole Group. Hannibal (Kyle)& Nicole(Lizzy), Sabrina (Madam Garlique)&Brett(Asthmadeus) Amanda (Glumda) & Matt(Balihi) Tina (Angela Deth, DDS) Jeremy (Mummy King Alldrinktotat)

I'm a wonderful Dentist. Here I am helping the mummy

with a root canal with my pliers.

Mummy "All drink to that", And "Angle of Death"

Super fun night!!!!

Veteran's Day

Thanks to all those Service Men/Women who have served our Great Nation. We are free today because of your sacrifice. Thank You!!!!Our H-E-R-O SSG Bastian. Aka DaddyBrooklyn's school put on a wonderful Veteran's Day assembly.

Brooklyn had a Solo. She did a wonderful Job.

Here is Daddy With Chandler

Here is Daddy With Brooklyn

My Man in his Dress Blues. LOOKING GOOD!!

Brooklyn waiting for the program to start.

Missed post May 2010 Fun With Jared & Tammy in Bosie ID

I don't know How I missed this post. That has never happend. Anyway I wanted to put it on now so I have it and all the memories. Thanks Tammy for helping with the detalils. See this is why you blog it when it happnes. Now I will be able to look back and know what went on when I scrapbook this weeknd.

We got to have a super fun weekend with our "Dear Friends Jared & Tammy Jackson" We were so sad when Jared got his orders to Germany. We were moving to Washington and they to Germany. How sad is that? The Jackson's were coming to the states for a visit before Jared deployed to Afghanistan. We wanted to meet up with them so we met in Boise Idaho for a weekend. We Stayed at the Spring Hills Suites May 21-23 2010.

Jared, Tammy, Tina and Jeremy

Tammy, Tina and Brooklyn

Here we are eating Breakfast. YUMMY!!!

We even got a special room just for us. How cool is that? We went to a really cool hands on Science Center.

I'm not sure who had more fun the kids or the adults. We had lunch at the Cheese cake Factory. My favorite.After lunch It started to snow

Hello it's May why on earth is it snowing? We all ran to the car

and decided we couldn't go miniature golfing in the snow.

So the next best thing was a movie. We went to see

Diary of a wimpy kid. So funny!!! The kids loved it.

We decided since we had gone bowling with

Jared a couple of time that it would be fun to go bowling again.

So we found a bowling alley and played a couple games. Jared totally kicked our trash.

Umm he is super good. Over 110 each game. AWESOME.

It was getting to be dinner time but Nobody was hungry. We were all

stuffed from eating at the Cheese cake so we decided we would

stop at the store and grab some snacks for later that night. Since

we would be staying up all night playing games again. (We did this Friday night too)

Jared wasn't feeling very well. So he slept (so he would be ready to play games.)

while the rest of us went to the pool and Jacuzzi.

We put the kids to bed and played games. We had a wonderful evening

just laughing and playing. Lots and lots of memories.

Thanks for making time to hang with us Jared and Tammy!!!!

WE love and miss you both.

Four in One!!!!

I'm a little behind. So You are going to get Four activities in one Blog Post

Kayden's Birthday, Pumpkin Carving, Halloween,and ATC

The biggest update is Kayden turned "11". One more year and we will
have a teenager. Kayden is so amazing.He really has a heart of gold.He is a really good friend. I get notes home from teachers all the time telling us what a wonderful son we have because he is always doing kind things for others. Kayden is so responsible. He is loving Middle School. Some of Kayden's Favorite things. He loves playing his trumpet. He is really loving reading. (Finally!!!) Kayden,loves loves scouts. He is so excited he is now a "Boy Scout." He will be crossing over next week.

Our Handsome Boy. Kayden got a microscope for his birthday and loves it. He looks at any and everything he can find. He even tried to get Grandma to look at his booger! Kayden really loves Science. He still wants to be a doctor when he grows up. Kayden, we love you so very much and we are so blessed to have you in our home.

Happy Happy Birthday Sweetheart!!!

Here we are ready to carve our pumpkins.

Brooklyn doing the Dirty Job of gutting the Pumpkin.

Grandma Bastian is helping Chandler gut his pumpkin.Thanks Grandma. Look at that face. Priceless! Grandma helping Kayden with his pattern for his pumpkin
Grandma's are awesome like that. Jer and I are working really hard. Here are our super cute pumpkins.

Chandler aka Mom=Alien, Kayden aka Grandma= Mummy and Brooklyn aka Dad= pumpkin guy
Maybe next year they will do it all by themselves. Maybe?

Here are our Pumpkins at night. Very Cool! Going along the Science theme Kayden was
"Static Electricity" for Halloween.

Brooklyn, was Smarty Pants.

You need to read her shirt. Classic!
I know this is going to be a huge surprise but

Chandler was a Race Car Driver.

He even got to wear his hot wheel beat that hat. Our Crazy Cute Kids!!! Love them all.
Jeremy and I Went to Coeur D'Alene ID for the weekend. We stayed at the Coeur d'Alene Resort and spa. AWESOME. We attended a Recruiter ATC (Annual Training Conference). Grandma Bastian stayed with the kids and we had so much fun. Friday we had a little bit of training and some awards. That night we had a Company Halloween Party.
Jeremy and I dressed up like Shrek and Fionna. We got a lot of complements and some people even stopped us to get our pictures. Awesome!!! So much fun!

Saturday we had some more training and then that night we had the big "BALL." It's fun to get all dressed up and have a wonderful night of food, friends, and Army. Love it!!

What a Cute Couple

Amanda from Secret Window Photography took these pictures. Amanda & SFC Matt Gump, Nicole & SSG Kyle Brenay, Tina & SSG Jeremy Bastian

Trip to Forks

My Mom took me on a fun over night trip to a "Taste of Home" cooking show. My mom and I use to go to these all the time. But alas the Army has moved me so far away I have missed going for years. My mom did some research and found out a "Taste of Home" cooking show was going on the time she was here for Brooklyn's Baptism. So we decided it was high time for a fun girls night. We drove 5 hours to Aberdeen WA. We had so much fun just talking and laughing. The drive was beautiful so many fun fall colors. We got to Aberdeen picked up our "Free Tickets" to the cooking show. I was able to surprise my mom with Free tickets. We checked into our hotel and hung out and planned our trip to "Forks". We are both Twilight Fans. Mom started reading the books when my sister Britany and I raved about them. We got to the taste of home an hour before the doors opened. We were shocked there was no line. Not one single person. Clearly this is not like other "Taste of Homes" we have been too. They let us in and we waited 2 1/2 hours for the show to start. No problem Mom and I just had a blast talking, laughing and looking at all our goodies from our bags. The show started, I learned a lot of new tricks. So excited about that. We even got a couple recipes I want to try.

Here we are at the Cooking School. Here On our way to Forks we stopped at this Awesome amazing Rain Forest.

I have never been in side a rain forest before.
It was amazing. We drove not 10 minutes

and this is what we saw. AMAZING There were like 30 Elk.
This was the view for our little potty breakDriving a little more, no one was in the Rain Forest
so I would just stop in the middle of the road and
my Mom and I would just get out and take pictures.
AWESOME!!!

Not another 5 minutes and look...
Beautiful trees with moss all over them.

They were fascinating. I loved them.

Green all over it was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

After about 40 minutes in the Rain Forest

we decided it was time to finish

our 2 hour drive to Forks.

We made it to the "Twilight" Capitol of the world.

This is the sign right above the information Center.

Inside we got all the Twilight information. Complete with a

map and directions to all the "Twilight" highlights.

My mom also got me a really nice book about "Twilight Tours"

Inside I got to pose with my Twilight Friends.
(Cardboard friends)

They really made the information area alot of fun.

Okay now we are going to start the "Twilight Tour"

First stop, Bella's Truck, with my Mom
Second Stop Bella's house.

Third, Bella's High School. The school had a fire and they

are re-building it. However, they kept the sign for

crazy Twilight fans. (Like Me)

Fourth, The Cullen's home. Fifth, The Clinic where Dr. Cullen works

Sixth, the Police Station.

We drove another 25 minutes To La Push Reservation.
This drive was beautiful. Oh my gosh so awesome.

Look how Beautiful!

We then headed to Port Angeles. We got to see the Book store

and Gottschalks (the dress store.) We wanted to have

lunch whereBella and Edward stopped to eat at La Bella Italian However,

It's only open for dinner. We still had a 5 hour drive ahead of us so we

were not waiting. But it was fun to see.

Our drive home was so adventurous.

We spent the next hour doing our 2 pages of

Twilight trivia the information center gave us.

The fall colors were amazing.

I couldn't stop and take pictures. (It was a busy road)

We crossed a huge bridge. The tom tom had Picture of

a boat. I asked my mom, "what does that mean?" She said, "I don't know."

We kept driving my Mom saw a sign that said Ferry. Mom was like oh that

would be fun. The next turn I told my mom she got her wish

because onto the Ferry we went. I drove onto the Ferry. We parked

and went to the top for our 30 minute ferry drive. How cool is that? AWESOME
The rest of the trip was long. It was a 16 hour day. We were so tired by the

end but it was so worth it. Lots of fun Memories.

Thanks Mom, Love you