The Year of the "STICKY" Snow....

Time for our annual Christmas Tree Adventure! Cars were packed, everyone was ready to go at the usual meeting spot (The Jeremy Store) at 8:00 am the Saturday after Thanksgiving. We had a lovely, not very exciting, hour and a half drive to Christmas Tree Meadows. We purchased our Christmas Tree tags from the Ranger Station and started up into the beautiful snow covered Mountains. We have a spot that we like to go to... great trees are found there.... but this year we encountered some seriously STICKY snow. We were unable to make it to our normal spot. In fact, we were unable to make it up the last big hill.....

So we stopped... pulled out the Suburban and the Truck and decided that we were in the new perfect spot! Each of the four families spread out and went to find the perfect family Christmas Tree. We hiked and hiked... at times being waist deep in snow! Jaden, Jessica and Jaxon all got tired and decided to take a break...

That's when we spotted it.... THE 2010 RASCH FAMILY CHRISTMAS TREE...

As Ty and Jaden walked up to this grand tree ready to chop it down, Jaden began reciting those famous lines from Christmas Vacation...

Jaden: "Dad, that tree won't fit in our yard."

Ty: "It's not going in the yard Jaden, it's going in the living room."

The tree always looks great and full when it's laying down!!

4 guys... that's how many it took to load our tree onto the car!

Our adventure was over and we headed out of the wilderness with trees on cars...

Until we got stuck!!

Ty was backing up trying to help pull the Peabody's out...

again...

Both the Truck and Suburban !

Next year we are renting this!!!!!!!

We got everyone "unstuck" for the 10th time and we thought we were free and clear until we ran into this......

At which point we spent another hour pulling out that truck and it's trailer, the other truck and the car behind them!!

It never fails that we always have such a fun and exciting adventure. We laughed and laughed this year at the "STICKY" snow!!

P.S. There's an open invitation for anyone that wishes to join us next year!!!!

A Halloween Visit to the Grandparents...

At Grandma Jo's for Soup and Salad we ran into

gorgeous Princess Aurora, a Gladiator, Jane,

Ty and a Skeleton Biker

The Rasch Clan...

Grandma Nancy's Menu...

Mummy Games...

Jaden was the winner!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

HALLOWEEN PARTY

Our annual Halloween Party was a

SMASHING SUCCESS!!

We had 71 people attend and we served chili

and hotdogs to all those who came to hang out with us.

A few of the guests included...

The Rasch's (of course)

The Brotherson's

The Clift's

The DeVere's

The Poston's

The White's

The Anderson's

The Holt's

The Gallup's

The Hales

The Fielding's

The Johnson's

The Peabody's

A few shots from the SPOOKTACULAR evening...

People were everywhere!!

The boys...

Alice Cullen, Brett Michaels, Cleopatra and the Pharaoh

Alice taking advantage of Jasper...

Creepy witch...

The Mad-hatter and the 50's girl capturing moments...

Jane and Bat Girl...

Jane's eyes were SCARY!

Trick or Treating at the Vincent's

and leaving with FULL SIZE candy bars and a rack of

BBQ RIBS for each family!!

We are so going there next year!!

Pumpkin Carving

This year was the BEST pumpkin carving ever!

Results...

See if you can guess the artist of each one.

HaPpY hAlLoWeEn!!

HALLOWEEN MOVIE NIGHT...

Saturday night was our

Late Night Fright Night...

We have friends over and watch

scary movies.

SHOWING for the Teenagers:

SHOWING for the children 11 and under:

TREATS for all!!!

We had a SPOOKTACULAR time

and can't wait for the

next one!