New Years 2011

Diego and Melissa, from our Portuguese ward, were awesome enough to invite us over to hang out with Melissa's family. It was a wild night of Bunco! (a crazy dice game that the whole extended family played)

Christmas 2010

Christmas eve we hung out with some of our Brazilian friends making a ruckus. Christmas day, we had the Runyans and Austin over to play games and enjoy Christmas.

Barrand Christmas Pictures 2010

Coolest family picture ever!! Well, thats what we say every year :) This theme was 80's. Bryce's mom did a fantastic job with the outfits as usual.

Thanksgiving in Las Vegas

On Thanksgiving we had a traditional "go out to eat at a Las Vegas casino" dinner. It was fun and delicious. We also walked around the strip. We went to the Secret Garden to see the dolphins and the albino lion.

Don and Leslie's wedding

I'm so proud of my little brother Don!!!!! We headed down to AZ to see the sealing. It was the first time that all of us (Barrand parents and kids) were all in the temple together.

Halloween 2010

For halloween, Andy Branch and I decided to go with the classic SNL skit Laser Cats. Lucas and Sam loved it enough to copy us. http://www.hulu.com/watch/209651/saturday-night-live-laser-cats-1 I think we turned out pretty awesome.

2010 Family Pictures

Here are the family pictures that our friend Bianca took.