Thanksgiving 2010

FIRST SNOW

This was our first snow of the season. It was sad to see our nice fall go. You can tell in this picture that our roses had bloomed again, not after this day! During the week of Thanksgiving it was bitterly cold, the high was like 22 or something ridiculous.

Things we are Thankful For Turkeys

I am going to have to change the rules next year, the kids have picked up on the fact that Ryan puts the same thing every year. These tease him about it too...Food, Family, Teeth, Church and Football. All good things to be thankful for, football is debatable at times.

The the drive to Burley for Thanksgiving took longer than usual,
but we made it and we had a great holiday.


Events From Thanksgiving Day



TURKEY TROT
On Thanksgiving morning a few of us braved the 5K Turkey Trot that we were all very excited about signing up for. But come Turkey Day the weather was not cooperating. When we started the race it was 3 degrees!! I thought my face was going to fall off! The sun was out and there was not any wind (which is highly unusual for Burley). When I finally started sweating, my sunglasses got stuck to my face. It was still really fun though, Bailey was a rock star she ran almost the whole way and she thought it was really fun. Hopefully next time it will be a little warmer and everyone can come.


DINNER AT PAPA and DEE'S

Bailey and Jakeb

These picky eaters did enjoy a few bites

Logan and Ryan

Loggy feel asleep on the way out to Oakley so he had dinner a little later he still looks a little sleepy but really wanted to eat by his daddy.

PAPA TAKING OUT HIS EYEI am sure Papa loves when we have more babies because that means there are kids who have yet to see him take out his eye. This time it was Gracee and Brody who wanted to see it. Each time he does it the kids get more excited and brave. This time they wanted to hold it.


Bailey and Ellie holding the eye




LANEY IS 2 MONTHS OLD



LANEY GAVE HER FIRST REAL SMILE

Logan and Dallin in matching McQueen PJ's

FUN IN THE SNOW

My Brother In Laws parents live across the street and they have this very fun snow machine. I don't even know what it is really called. But the kids thought riding in it was a blast. Logan didn't want to get out even though it was freezing.

I didn't really bring Logan any snow clothes, but he wanted to go out so bad. This is what we were able to piece together. He was just happy to be able to go outside.

We also had a great time on Black Friday. It really is just about the experience. I didn't get that much of my shopping done, but we had a really fun time.

So Thankful

We had a enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend. We stayed home and had Thanksgiving with our little family it was nice to be surrounded all weekend by everyone that I am So Thankful for. It was nice not to travel for a change.

Hope everyone had a Happy Turkey Day.

Thanksgiving

We had a good Thanksgiving, it was great hanging out with everyone and taking a break from the day to day stuff. We had dinner with Ryan's family at his Dad's house. The kids loved playing with their cousins and we all enjoyed some great food. The next day my sister in laws and I hit the Black Friday craziness on only 3 hours of sleep. It was so worth it, we found great deals but more than anything we had a great time. I need to get the picture from Mindy of all of our stuff crammed in the back of Julie's Yukon. Good times!! Saturday we thought it would be fun to head into the mountains to cut down a Christmas tree. Aaron was a great sport and came with us to show us where to go and help Ryan cut it down. The guys had fun pushing our car to its limits, Bailey loved running around looking for the perfect tree, Ellie stayed in the car with Logan continually asking if we could just buy a tree at the store. We did find a tree I don't think it is the most perfect tree out there, but it turned out great now that it is all decorated. The kids love it so that is all that matters, oh and the fact that it cost 5 bucks (just for the permit)! I am excited for the Christmas season and to finish getting all of the decorations up.

On Logan's First Thanksgiving he didn't want any of the food, just this back massage thing

that made him laugh and laugh

Some of the kids with their yum-o food

This is the tree but we only ended up without about half of it because there was really two trees growing together. I will post a finished photo of it later. There is still to much junk on the floor around it that I can't take a picture. I wouldn't want to give you a glimpse of how I really live most of the time :)

We are Thankful !

Last night for family night we talked about Thanksgiving and about all of the things that we are Thankful for. Everyone had a piece of paper divided into 6 squares and we all had to draw or write things we were thankful for. Even Logan. Here are the things everyone came up with......

Logan is grateful for...

1. Bottles
2. Family
3. Diapers
4. Binki's
5. His crib
6. His bath

Ellie is grateful for...

1. Mom and Dad
2. Sister and Brother
3. Rainbows
4. Flowers
5. Food
6. Stuff

Bailey is grateful for...

1. Her Toys
2. Family
3. Her Room
4. Her Bed
5. Food
6. Drink

I am Thankful for...

1. My Family
2. The Gospel
3. Our Home
4. Ryan's Job
5. Good Food & Healthy Body
6. Books

Ryan is Thankful for...

1. Family
2. Book of Mormon
3. Teeth
4. Food
5. House
6. Clothes

We have much much more to be thankful for but I love that the girls came up with them all by themselves. The list could go on and on and I am grateful for this season, so we can all realize they many blessings that we have been given.

Bailey's Turkey Day Projects

Bay came home from school today with all of these super cute Thanksgiving crafts that she made at school. I thought they were worth taking pictures of.

Ellie's Feast

Yesterday Ellie had a Thanksgiving Feast at her school. All of the kids dressed up as either Pilgrims or Indians. Ellie's class was Pilgrims. It was very cute and they went all out with the food, it really was a feast. She was able to sit by her friends Brinley and Rex. She loved all the food and is excited for Thanksgiving, we were in charge of bringing some Jell-O jigglers. Ellie wanted to take purple and blue ones, not the most Thanksgivingish colors, but fun colors. I was glad I was able to be there with her.