Happy Turkey Day!

Well, Thanksgiving has come and gone. We spent it this year with all of our Ellis family and we were the hosts! It was fun. I can't honestly say that I pulled off my very first Thanksgiving and that my turkey was perfect and yadeeyada, because my mother-in-law is the energizer bunny and I can hardly keep up with her! So thanks to her and everyone else's help, the pies were made, the food was hot and all in all it was a success. I did succeed in cleaning my house and decorating before everyone's arrival so I guess thats my kudos for hosting! Jarom did carve the turkey and he looked so cute doing that! So here are the splendid and not-so splendid happenings of our holiday:

1. touched my first turkey (lifted it for my mother-in-law to season it)

2. Lydi loved the "organic" candied yams

3. poor Kaybri had a seizure and slept through most of Thanksgiving

4. Paxton and Jackson's wrestling

5. Black Friday planning

6. My good deals on a camera and little Christmas trees

7. Missed out on all our Toys R Us deals

8. 5am-4pm Cassie 9 months pregnant, we are crazy! She's a trooper!

9. saw New Moon and Jacob is definitely hotter than Edward

10. hung up lights only to have them all come crashing down minutes later

11. Jarom saying a naughty word in front of his dad and then all the boys laughing hysterically at the broken glass and the memory of Jarom prancing around trying to save the lights!

12. the boys golfed, their reward for our marathon shopping day!

13. Uncle Dale and Aunt Cyndi's red chili turkey sauce.

14. Becca joining us for the day

15. I screwed up with Cassie and Justin's kids quite a few times, Paxton now you get your pie!... oh wait, sorry Cassie, I mean maybe tomorrow! Paxton, now you get to go shopping! Oh wait, never mind yay you are going to stay here! Kaybri you want some soda, oh woops sorry,never mind haha...

16. Found out our future puppy died, so sad! But I think we have another lined up.

And now a little leftovers and a quiet house. It was a great time! We'll miss them but we get to see most of them again in about a week because Cassie will be having the baby! Yay! A new nephew or niece!

I am grateful for my family and loved ones, the Gospel, good friends, good books, freedom, life experiences that help us to grow, a mini van, and a beautiful place to live. Life is good!

Lydi loves Uncle Dale!this is an icecream cake: super cool!

re-doing lights after the light disaster!

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