Thanksgiving

A Carmichael celebration! Court, Robert, and I did the run to feed the hungry along with thousands of other people out there to raise money for the Sacramento food bank. Chris worked all day, came home to a turkey dinner, and was asleep by 830!

Persimmons, bell peppers, onion, garlic, orange/mango juice, honey, sage, and chives. Next time I will invest in another baking tin... The dollar tree version barely held out for the 4 hours of basting and baking!

A chilly race photo!

Celebrating and giving thanks the night before at Grammy and Gramp's. Elise is sure growing.

A classic pose, Ava is always SUPER excited for a scoop of ice cream! We are so thankful for our health, family, friends, and lives. We are very fortunate and feel blessed to have a place in this world.

Our Trip to Glamis Dunes

We ventured down all 620 miles to Glamis dunes for 5 days. It was a long drive but always worth it. The weather was in the 80's to 90's out in the dunes, and we are talking about the week before thanksgiving! It was nice to escape the cooler weather that was coming to Sacramento. Here are Paul, Sharon, and Brody with his doggles on.

Watching the drag races you can't help but enjoy the desert sunsets!

We had a great Thanksgiving dinner on the Saturday before Thanksgiving! We had 3 trailers lined up, 3 ovens and stoves going to boot!

There is always an ice cream truck that drives around the campsites, blasting "It's a small world" and Sharon had downloaded the original Disneyland song that is over 12 minutes long in all different languages. She blast that out of their trailor! It was hilarious!

It was very relaxing, I was able to start and finish The Shack (Read it!!), and go for runs in the mornings before it got too hot! We went on some great rides with Paul and Sharon, and did some riding on the quads as well.

Buds!

A Special Event

My girlfriend Jaclyn has a passion for Africa. And kids. So she connected with an orphanage in Africa, and a non-profit Solace International, some connections in the community, and wah-lah! A benefit with silent auction and live auction to boot! Plus a personal chef from Vegas! Tashina was a superb helper with Desmond and Isaiah.

I worked the door, collecting the admission fee and handing out bidding numbers. Chris watched the door for me while I checked out the african dancers, drum music, and the party getting a little wild on the back deck!

Inside, the walls were packed with supporters.

Good friends for life!

Jaclyn did such an amazing job raising funds for Solace. The event itself made over $7,000, and her total to date is over $9,000! We are so proud of you, Jac! What a special channel for your talents!

For more info, Check out YGC/ Solace International:

http://www.solaceinternational.org/sp_kenya.html

The Rudnicki's

Ok, So it is kinda cheesey to have a post with just one picture. But this picture is very important to us, moreso the people in it!! Kim and Jon have been such great friends through school and have understood directly what that was like. They never fail to spoil us, even though we really do try to get them back. We were attempting to take their fam out to dinner this night, and due to missed naps, it was easier to go to their house for dinner. This was all fine and dandy except THEY MADE US DINNER!! Homemade pizza dough with all the fixins! (Thus defeating the purpose of trying to spoil them!) Thanks again for a great night of games, laughs, and of course good food! We are thankful for you two! (and your two kiddos who are in bed at this point of the night!)

Jill's Baby Shower

Well us interns just had to meet up again. It has only been a few months! Jill is due in just a few weeks with a little boy, named Elijah! We are all so excited to meet him, and we liked the "excuse" to get together. Lacey flew up from LA, just to wow us with her artistic abilities making play-doh babies! I think that one survived the 2 year old tearing through the place.

Jill always had us beat in the exercise catergory. She is/was a professional triathlete! She is still staying buff while growing that babe!

Sadie, Katie, Me, Jamie

The trek down to Livermore was of course worth it! Sadie and I carpooled, and the time passed by. We all concluded that we were happy to have jobs, but still feel like there is so much to learn. That is a good feeling, I guess. That you always can learn more. I would be so sad if my career was one where you were always confident and knew the answer. That would be so limiting and boring! All of us have now passed our RD exam too! (Carolyn will finish in February!)

Happy Bday Court

Well Court's 22nd came! We went to Mint's Euro-Asian Restaurant and as usual, we were the only customers for most of the night! Below is Robert feeding Dave dessert!

Ava enjoyed a ton of white rice, even though they had already eaten before coming to dinner.

Singing Happy Birthday without candles! We enjoyed the famous Coconut fried bananas with coconut sorbet. Happy Bday court, and hope your year is ama-sing!

What A Cute Pumpkin he is!

Well couldn't resist another photo! He is ready for ridin' quads...Some year!