Our Thanksgiving Weekend

Oh, hello. We are back and are alive and well. I know it has been a long time and I am sorry for that. We have been busy getting our home together and adjusting to the change. We are pretty much all set up, except for a few things. We need to hang a few more pictures and get the office painted and set up. Other than that, it looks like home and we couldn't be more happy.

We had a great Thanksgiving and mixed in a lot of other activities all weekend.

We started off Thanksgiving Day morning at 10:00 sharp for Bowling at the new Boondocks. Love it! The place is great and I can't wait to enjoy it more. We had both of our families come. It has kinda been a tradition in my family to go bowling on Thanksgiving. I couldn't let that slide by this year, it is too fun.

Above is my mom, Keat, Joe, Isaac, and Chels.

Look how adorable Chels looks! Due in March. I seriously can't wait for the little girl.

Jeff, Amber, Scott, and Holly.

Amber too is pregnant and due in March. They are having a little boy! We can't wait for this day either. We're so excited to be a new aunt and uncle.

Cindy (Rodger's mom), Rodger, Me, Lando, and Lindsey.

We got the lovely time to spend with Rodger's mom while she was in town. She has also been staying with us all weekend. It has been fun.

Dave and Ashley

Ashley's new "friend"

There's Amber's cute belly:)

Alyssa and Jamie pictured above as well.

Bowling was a blast and my new favorite place to bowl is now Boondocks. They have couches you sit on and huge screens with music videos playing in front of you. It is a really cool place. I can't wait to Mini Golf when the weather gets better.

We had Thanksgiving dinner at our place. Yes, you heard me right. But it went just great. I wasn't stressed and I was plenty prepared. I did a good job if you ask me:) It was Scott, Holly, Cindy, Alyssa, and Jamie. Rachel and Dayton came over after for Dessert and games.

I did a cute thing around the dinner table. I had 3 different colors of leaves under our plates. If your color match with another, you had to say something you are grateful for, for that person. There were some nice things said about everyone. I'm grateful for too many things this year, it has been such a good year.

Look at this pie Alyssa made! Isn't it wonderful?

I had to throw this picture in. Cole and Gabs were in town for the weekend. We hung out with them as much as we could. This was Wednesday night. Notice the TIME on the clock? Yes....this is what happens when we hang out with them. Time doesn't exist. Cole was getting pretty serious with his signing. Oh and Rodger broke our drum sticks because he was a little too into it also.

Rockin' out after our meal.

Friday Morning aka Black Friday we woke up at 5:00 AM. I can't remember the last time I was up at that unnecessary hour. We went shopping with Cole and Gabs. I swear the deals sucked this year. We bought a movie and new drum sticks. That's it. The highlight was eating breakfast. I was pretty tired the rest of the day and only got an hour nap.

That night we went to see the lights at Temple Square. We went with Jeff, Amber, and Cindy.

They were pretty and fun:)

Saturday out came the Christmas Tree! My favorite. I wish I could leave it up year round.

Later that night we had friends over for dinner and then Gingerbread Houses. This is cute little Porter (Ben and Lindsay's boy). He's getting big!

Mike and Abbie

Cole and Gabrielle

Ben and Linds (unfinished house, baby duty)

Myself and the creep.

We had a great weekend and I'm sad it's over. We do have something to look forward to though in two weeks......Hello Cruise! We can't wait.

Love to all and Happy Thanksgiving.