A Slow Cooker Thanksgiving
7 months ago
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Sedona
So when I said that I didn't take any pictures in Flagstaff, I forgot that we took the small detour through Sedona to get to Flagstaff. And of course I took pictures there. Just thought I'd share a few. They are also posted on Picasa with the link under my Pictures list here. Hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas and wonderful New Year!
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Thanksgiving 2009
Thought I better do a quick post about Thanksgiving so that I can try to get caught up on things. The weekend after we came back from the dunes we went to Flagstaff to visit some friends (believe it or not, I didn't take any pictures in Flagstaff) so I didn't get this post up right away. I started the post a while ago (which is why the posting date is not actually correct) and am finally finishing it up. Not much to say other than we had a ton of fun, as always. Thanks to Eric and his family for letting us camp with them. We all had a huge potluck Thanksgiving dinner, almost 40 people total. The riding was great and we especially loved the big group rides. We made it over to Gordon's one day to see the sand drags. The weather was great. It threatened to get ugly Saturday and sprinkled for just a little bit but then the sun came back out. All in all, another great trip to the dunes. Bonus for no wrecks or injuries!
Taking a break during a group ride
Mike deep frying our turkey
Enjoying Thanksgiving dinner
The sand drags were packed... people/cars/bikes as far as the eye could see. The drags were probably about 1/2 mile long!
Mike and Zane making a pass down the drags. They are the two dirt bikes on the right side of the picture.
Lindsey, Diana, Cade and Scott hanging out at the drags.
This is Blake riding behind the Rhino in his super cool, custom wagon.
Blake also loves to get pulled behind the quad on his sled....so cute!
Taking a break during a group ride
Mike deep frying our turkey
Enjoying Thanksgiving dinner
The sand drags were packed... people/cars/bikes as far as the eye could see. The drags were probably about 1/2 mile long!
Mike and Zane making a pass down the drags. They are the two dirt bikes on the right side of the picture.
Lindsey, Diana, Cade and Scott hanging out at the drags.
This is Blake riding behind the Rhino in his super cool, custom wagon.
Blake also loves to get pulled behind the quad on his sled....so cute!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Our Cabo Vacation
OMG! Where did November go?! It's already December and I still haven't posted our vacation to Cabo in October! So here it goes....
We had an amazing time in Cabo. We are so glad that Lonnie and Angie were able to make it, as we had a blast with them. We spent lots of time hanging out at the pool and making full use of the all inclusive food and drinks (okay so maybe more drinks than food). We spent 2 days fishing. The first day was kind of slow, only caught 3 dorado. But the next day was great. We caught 16 (some were catch and release). By 9:30 we had caught 15 of them then we trolled around for Marlin. We saw a couple, but no bites. Caught another dorado on the way back to the marina. The place we booked the fishing through vacuum sealed and froze the fish so that we were able to bring it home. We brought home almost 40 lbs! We'll be eating fish for a while. We had the chef at the hotel cook some up for us Sunday night and it was amazing!
We also spent 2 days diving. The visibility wasn't spectaucular, as the hurricane had just come through, but the diving was still good. Saw lots of stone fish, some eel, a turtle and lots of other fish.
Our first trip down to the beach shortly after arrival. The clouds looked cool and the weather was perfect the whole time. You'd never know a hurricane had threatened our vacation.
Shortly after Angie and Lonnie arrived on Friday we were all at the pool just hanging out
View of the arch from the fishing boat on the way out to catch some big ones!!
Steph's big catch
One of Mike's catches. Love the markings on the dorados.
My cousin Angie started to reel this one in. As you can see she is quite petite, so she wasn't making that much progress. Lonnie helped her reel it in the rest of the way. It was the biggest fish of all the ones we caught.
Lonnie caught this pretty dorado. Another good sized one.
The chef cooked up our fish several ways - fried, baked, grilled - and it was all delicious
Relaxing at the pool with drinks and a good book
Mike on one of our dives
Hanging out at the sports bar, watching football
Celebrating Angie's birthday a little early
Angie and Lonnie helped us celebrate our anniversary with a bottle of champagne.
This is Emmanuel. He was practically our personal bartender. He made these rainbow shots for us. Believe it or not, all of the shots are mixed in the same shaker and as he poured them, each one was a different color. It was so cool - and they were good!
Another bartender inside the dance club made us this version of rainbow shots - also delicious
On our last day we stopped at the fire station and Mike was able to trade a shirt.
We had an amazing time in Cabo. We are so glad that Lonnie and Angie were able to make it, as we had a blast with them. We spent lots of time hanging out at the pool and making full use of the all inclusive food and drinks (okay so maybe more drinks than food). We spent 2 days fishing. The first day was kind of slow, only caught 3 dorado. But the next day was great. We caught 16 (some were catch and release). By 9:30 we had caught 15 of them then we trolled around for Marlin. We saw a couple, but no bites. Caught another dorado on the way back to the marina. The place we booked the fishing through vacuum sealed and froze the fish so that we were able to bring it home. We brought home almost 40 lbs! We'll be eating fish for a while. We had the chef at the hotel cook some up for us Sunday night and it was amazing!
We also spent 2 days diving. The visibility wasn't spectaucular, as the hurricane had just come through, but the diving was still good. Saw lots of stone fish, some eel, a turtle and lots of other fish.
Our first trip down to the beach shortly after arrival. The clouds looked cool and the weather was perfect the whole time. You'd never know a hurricane had threatened our vacation.
Shortly after Angie and Lonnie arrived on Friday we were all at the pool just hanging out
View of the arch from the fishing boat on the way out to catch some big ones!!
Steph's big catch
One of Mike's catches. Love the markings on the dorados.
My cousin Angie started to reel this one in. As you can see she is quite petite, so she wasn't making that much progress. Lonnie helped her reel it in the rest of the way. It was the biggest fish of all the ones we caught.
Lonnie caught this pretty dorado. Another good sized one.
The chef cooked up our fish several ways - fried, baked, grilled - and it was all delicious
Relaxing at the pool with drinks and a good book
Mike on one of our dives
Hanging out at the sports bar, watching football
Celebrating Angie's birthday a little early
Angie and Lonnie helped us celebrate our anniversary with a bottle of champagne.
This is Emmanuel. He was practically our personal bartender. He made these rainbow shots for us. Believe it or not, all of the shots are mixed in the same shaker and as he poured them, each one was a different color. It was so cool - and they were good!
Another bartender inside the dance club made us this version of rainbow shots - also delicious
On our last day we stopped at the fire station and Mike was able to trade a shirt.
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