Thanksgiving and Sand??

This year for Thanksgiving we headed up to Fallon Nevada. Everyone in the Fairbanks Family was headed there to go ride four-wheelers and relax in the beautiful Nevada sand. I joke but actually it was a really nice time and we got to spend some much needed downtime with everyone. We headed back on Thursday night and ate our Thanksgiving dinner at Boomtown.

Sunny was learning how to drive a four wheeler with a clutch. He gave it a pretty good try but I would have liked him to have gone a little farther. I think he was embarrassed to be shown how to do things at his age.

Grandpa had quite a bit of faith in Raman. He just handed Raman over the four wheeler and told him to have fun. Needless to say one trailer dent later and two heart attacks for his mother he was back and safe with me. I can't believe he actually ran into a trailer and then got stuck. Too funny....I don't think you will ever live that down dear.

Deanna and Skid having a great time out there.

We had a really neat time and can't wait to go back. We got to meet some new friends and have some fun with the kids. See everyone next year.....

New Style for my baby!

Karan went yesterday for the first time to go get a haircut. It was pretty emotional for me to see all of her hair falling to the ground, but she has been wanting to get it cut for a long time. It was Mommy hanging onto the past rather than Karan. So here we go, she picked out a super cute A line cut that is shorter in back than in front and she just loves it.

Thursday Night Lights

Here are some pictures of Sunny's football game that we went to last week. He is #77 for the Gridley Bulldogs freshman football team. It was so funny since he is so much bigger than the other kids he would run them over and then go back and grab them by the shoulders and pick them up! It was hilarious. Unfortunately they lost their game but at least I was there to watch it and support them. We all went out to dinner that night and we ended up eating with almost the entire other schools team. Black Bear Diner was full of the other teams family and players. We thought that it would be very sportsman like to go and congratulate them on their win.

Go Bulldogs!

Happy Halloween!!!

here are the pictures of our lovely Halloween Eve! Milton was a werewolf and I was a knawed on housewife. He looked awesome in his outfit. We got our pictures taken and averaged probably about 250 - 300 + tricker treaters. Some cried some laughed and some even ran away screaming but all in all I think everyone enjoyed themselves and we had a great time scaring the crap out of small children!

Raman and Halloween

Here is a picture of my super adorable middle child Raman. He wanted to be leatherface for Halloween so I thought well what the heck, we don't have cutsy Halloween anymore at my house since we don't have any little guys at my house really anymore. It's all blood and gore basically. I ordered this outfit off of the website that produced the movie. They have a line of Halloween outfits for sale and he got one of them. Here he is getting ready to go impress the ladies at the Halloween Dance at Sycamore tonight at 6:30. Knock em dead Raman...uh I mean have a great time dear and try and stay out of trouble.

My Baby Sister has a Baby!

My little sister Trisha came down to visit us this weekend and brought Josh and Tyler with her. Tyler is 9 months old now and I couldn't wait to see him! Apparently Sunny couldn't either since he pretty much hogged him the whole time they were here. Apparently gangsta rapper wannabe teenagers like hanging out with small white children....who knew? Anyway we hung out on Saturday morning getting everyone ready and then we headed down to Yuba City to do some shopping with Trish.

We were all starving so we went to the Chinese food buffet down there and Josh had a great time with the Sushi. I am assuming there is not a huge market for Sushi in Nevada since he was so appreciative for me taking him to partake of the delicacy. He is so funny!

Who is this huge brown kid holding me? Oh wait it's my cousin Sunny.

For all of his annoyances Sunny is going to make some woman very happy some day. He is so great with kids and just loved playing with Ty the whole time. I would be holding him and he would come up and take him from me and they would head off to play on the floor or give him raspberries.

Hi my name is Tyler and I am addicted to pacifiers.

Here he is eating my $300 phone, how cute!

Trisha and Josh and if you notice Milton is doing his favorite pasttime....playing on the computer!

Trisha is just going to kill me on this picture, but I thought it was so cute. She had just gotten out of the shower and Ty wanted to hang out with her. Very cute.

Up, Up and Away! Ty at 9 months is walking already. Not alot but at least a few feet. It's amazing to see such a little guy just hopping up and running around.

Oh no it's attack of the killer babies. I know I am a sicko, but I thought it would be a cute Halloween picture. Ty got one of my halloween decorations (which happened to be a replica of a cut off human foot- whatever) and was chewing on it.

Milton showing Tyler the finer points of maneuvering your way around WoW. He will make a fine gamer some day!

Aunt Jennifer you can't get me.....he was the happiest baby I have ever seen. I hardly heard him cry at all. Trisha is very lucky to have such a great little guy. I didn't want them to leave and was really sad to see them head back home.

We love you Ty and can't wait for you to come back and hang out with us for longer!

All Hallows Eve!

Here is just a small sampling of what we have transformed our house into. For those of you that don't know Halloween is my all time favorite "holiday". We even have an old bathtub that is going to be filled with "toxic ooze" and the remnants of it's inhabitant hanging out. I am hoping to get a whole lot more pictures the closer we get to the actual day.

Happy Haunting

Friends of the High Lakes Weekend

On Saturday Morning we volunteered to head up to the High Lakes to clean and repair trails. I was unsure of what I was getting myself involved in when agreeing to go to this but alas we headed out. Dad and Milton met up in a town just north of Stirling City (if you even know where Stirling City is??? I had not previous to this experience) and we started in on the road to the High Lakes.

Here is a picture of Milton and Karan standing in front of Spring Valley Lake. It was incredibly beautiful and I am thinking it would be a great place to camp. I am sure most of you have already been there but I had not and I think it's a great place. Very remote.

Here is just a small sampling of all the vehicles that were up there that day. We saw everything from Toyotas, Jeeps, Broncos, Trucks of every variety to these tube built vehicles that looked like something straight out of mad max.

Here is Dad's Bronco

Dad and Milton filling in a trail by Long Lake.

Dad showed us some ancient Maidu Indian petroglyphs. It was very fascinating and almost sad to think that in close to another generation these will be gone.

Here is one of the main reasons that I feel as though I was in a non stop car accident for 6 hours straight with no medical intervention afterwards.












My daring husband kept right up with Dad the whole way. I can tell you that Dad was very excited! I haven't ever seen him that happy and it was really good to see that.

Go Bulldogs!

Sunny is now in freshman football for Gridley High School. He has games on Thursday nights if anyone would like to attend.

Thursdays - 9/10 = Gridley 5:30, 9/24 = Marysville 6:00, 10/1 = West Valley 5:30, 10/8 = Gridley 5:30, 10/15 = Las Plumas 5:30, 10/22 = Orland 5:30, 10/29 = Gridley 5:30, 11/5 = Willows 5:30.

Tomorrow I officially feel old!

Yes I am sad to announce that tomorrow is the official day that I feel truly old. It has been a long time coming (14 and a half years exactly) but my oldest child starts high school and is about 6 inches taller than me and roughly 50 pounds heavier. I remember when each of them would look at me like the whole world revolved around me and now they are sarcastic and usually want to get away from me as soon as humanly possible.

I know that I sound like they are horrible, but they are only doing the usual teenager thing. At least I can rely on my Karan to still want to hang out with me (although it usually involves having to pay her to get her nails done, but alas we do what we have to do).

Sunny has told me that I am WAY TOO OVER PROTECTIVE and my quick response to that was the usual parent thing (it is uncanny how much we turn into our parents the older we become, I'm surprised I didn't try and tell him I would pull the car over??) was that as long as he lived under my roof etc. etc. Although being a Mommy I can't really be blamed for that. I think it's a genetic thing or something to that effect. At least that's what helps me when I am snooping on him or calling three times to find out where he's at.

Anyway here is a long ago picture of my sweet boy when he was about 24 hours old. I love all of my children immensely and hope that this school year goes great and that the moving up in grades does not jade them too much in preparation for being an adult.