Thanksgiving

We had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving weekend. We left here at 6:30 a.m. on Thursday and headed for New Mexico. The kids were pretty good and I was able to get in a short nap and read my book for book club. We are reading Twilight. It is SUCH a good book! I don’t have much time for reading, so I have been planning on reading it over Thanksgiving. I usually end up getting a little car sick from reading in the car, but it was worth it and it didn’t end up being too bad. Anyway, we arrived in Farmington about 12:30 p.m. Jenny and David and their kids were there (they came down Wednesday) and Brad, Ken and Louise were there. Randy and Keri had come earlier in the week and were in St. George with Keri's family for Thanksgiving. I read my book some more and then we ate. It was a wonderful dinner, got to love the traditional turkey dinner. Then we had yummy pie later. I love pumpkin pie with fresh whipped topping! Surprisingly the boys like pumpkin pie too. I spent the rest of the evening reading. I was warned by a friend of mine not to even start the book because I wouldn’t want to put it down; she was right.

That night grandma had a little party for 3 of the kids that have birthday’s in November – Trent, Ryan, and Kara. She had presents for them and a cake and so we sang three times each time to a different child, then they got to blow out their candles.

I planned on getting up bright and early Friday to head off for great deals, but Kara woke up at 12:30 a.m. and I couldn’t get her to go back to sleep until 4:30 a.m. – it was horrible! Of course there was NO way I was going to get up at 6 a.m. to go shop with crazies! When we did get up there was snow – I was really surprised. Then around 8:30 a.m. we all (kids and adults) headed over to the mall for grandma’s Christmas present to the kids. She took them to the build a bear workshop store and they each got to choose a bear/animal. They each got to push the pedal on the "stuffing" machine while the worker filled the bear with "Fluff". Then they got to pick out a little outfit to go on their animal. Trent and Tyler LOVE "puppies", as they like to call them, so they each got a dalmatian dog. Kara got a cute bear, I named it Honey - that was the example name at the store. The worker had the kids pick out a name and then they printed a little birth certificate with the animal’s name and the owner’s name. Trent and Tyler both named their's LUCKY. I think the kids had fun doing it – Thanks Grandma!
Here is a picture of all the kids with their animals.


I took Kara shopping with me after the mall to go try to get the things I wanted that were on sale. I got a couple of them, so I was happy. Then I went on a hunt looking for a craft punch for a project that I am working on. I ended up going to Hobby Lobby, and found it. That is a neat store, I could spend way to much time and money there. I finished reading my book this day so that was good.

Saturday I shopped some more and we went to visit some of our friends, Jeff and Britney.

On Sunday we went to Sacrament meeting then headed home. We had a great time, it is always so nice to just get away from home for a couple of days and to be able to spend it with family.