Thanksgiving

When we found out that we were moving to Idaho I decided that I would invite my family to our house for Thanksgiving.  I wasn't sure if they would all come, but I am not sure how much longer I will live close enough to be able to have us all together.  For a crazy weekend my house was full of my family.  My Mom, my sister Lisa with her family, my brothers with their boys, and Emily were all in my house for two days.  Rebecca drove up with some of her kids and then went back to be with her family in Utah.  To say my house was a little crazy is an understatement, but we were together as a family.  I was able to get a picture of all of us.  It had been so long since we have been together.  The food was great and we laughed, played, and made memories that I we will forever remember.  The weather was perfect for us, maybe a little chilly for the family from Las Vegas, but the kids were able to play outside.

This is the first time we have been able to meet Quinn's son Drake.  The girls had so much fun playing with their boy cousins.  Koyhn, Savannah, and Drake are all born the same year. So we had to get pictures of them together.  We were definitely not short on pictures for the day.  

We deep fried our turkey and I under estimated the amount of food that everyone would eat.  I thought two turkeys would be plenty.  With plenty of oil to be used we spent the next day frying everything we could find in our house and my mom had to get two more turkeys.  I guess they all wanted leftovers.

Lisa's family stayed the longest so we took a little break from our house and headed to the park.  Its always an adventure when you go to the park.  Too bad, the sun sets so early here, there wasn't very much time play.  So after dinner we celebrated the start of the Christmas season by watching Eric's Favorite show...Elf.

At the end of the day everyone was exhausted, but happy to have been able to spend time together for the holiday.  The weather was perfect for everyone traveling and we enjoyed having our house of family.