love, us turkeys

Hope your day of thanks is filled with

people you love.

And if you're like me, you'll be surrounded with wonderful family (we'll be with the Kjars this year) but you'll be missing some others...so give them a phone call, and express your love and gratitude for them. I can't wait to call my fam tomorrow :)

I also can't wait to stuff my self with dark turkey meat, homemade stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, yams, hot rolls, fresh salad, and PIES. Oh. my.

Now I just have to remember to wear stretchy pants tomorrow...lots of give :)

Turkey-Day Adventures

I guess the title of this post should be Turkey-Weekend Adventures ;)

We had a great Thanksgiving holiday with some of my family in Spokane...my parents and sister Celeste drove up from Vancouver, WA, my sister Corrie came from BYU-I, and we all stayed with my awesome sister Natalie and her sweet family.

AIRPLANE RIDES

* While we're smiling and sharing kisses in these pictures, we weren't all chipper the whole time...we left Salt Lake @ 9:30pm on a flight that should have taken less than 2 hours to get to Spokane, but ended up traveling for more than 9 hours...we were delayed because of technical difficulties on the plane, we couldn't land in Spokane due to fog, landed in an airport 100 miles away from Spokane, got a car ride with some very nice strangers, then had car trouble, but thankfully Heavenly Father was watching over us and we arrived safely at 6:30am (7:30 our time)...whew! *

CANDY TURKEYS

* Notice what's in Adam's (redshirt) nose...yes, that would be candy corn, haha! *

CHRISTMAS MUSIC

...played and sung by the beautiful Miss Amanda

NERF WARS

* we're kind of intense *

* Man down!! Corrie was a good fighter...'til Ryan got her ;) *

* Oh little Jason...those are some big guns! HA! *

MEETING OUR NEWEST NIECE:

AMBER DIANE

* too cute for words *

* I got to change her just before we started the big feast! *

THANKSGIVING DINNER

* me & Celeste *

* Amanda and Corrie *

* Mom and Dad *

* Aaron, Ryan, and Adam...CHEERS! *

* Duane and Natalie *

* Adam and I *

Oh, I forgot to mention that we had a vegetarian Thanksgiving ;)

at least for the 1st course...heehee

The oven was turned off by accident while the turkey was cooking...so our schedule was thrown off a little bit...but it didn't phase us! We had our 1st course...then had 2nd's of everything WITH turkey! =)

* the bird *

* silly boys...nothing like good ol' drumsticks *

* mmmmm...PIES!!! My favorite is pictured above...homemade pumpkin cheesecake :) *

NAPS

* the classic signs of a turkey-coma *

GAMES

Junior Pictionary...

* the word was "Blizzard"...Adam drew a DQ icecream treat and Amanda drew a snow storm...haha!! *

Puzzles...lots of puzzles ;)

* Jason and Grandma having fun!*

FUN CAR RIDES

CRAFTS

* Amanda and I had fun beading jewelry *

* Dad (Grandpa) brought my grandpa's old leather working tools...*

BATH TIME

ARCADE!

* Uncle Adam with lucky Jason going for a fun shoulder ride *

* Bumper Cars! *

* one of my favorite chuck-E-cheese games from when i was youner...haha *

* Ry with Grandpa...3, 2, 1 race! *

* My mom got intense! She was addicted and played that car game about 5 times in a row. love it! *

* Ski-ball! *

* Adam's little addiction...but he came out on top!! *

* Do you remember going to chuck-E- cheese and other arcades and walking out with little trinkets and penny candy??...oh memories :) *

* Corrie, Daddy-o, and I *

* While the kids played with their loot from the game-tickets, we played some fun mini-golf! *

MOVIES

* We watched UP while we were there (goodness we love that movie)...part of Ice Age 3...and we went to see Blindside (which was fabulous!) *

MORE AMBER!

CHURCH w/ the FAM

I'm so grateful Adam gets along so well with my family...they absolutely love him :)

and really, it's not my family, it's our family!

The weekend went by too quickly...yet it was SO good to be home...just the two of us :)