Thanksgiving Weekend!

It has been SOOOO cold. This picture isn't my favorite but I thought it showed pretty good, how much snow we've gotten.

I loved this picture. The big billowy clouds.

This is Livvy watching a movie while we're driving to my parents.

Livvy again!

I was really bad and didn't take hardly any photos while we were gone. This is Lane sleeping with his new found grandma toys the hammer and monkey. He hardly let go of the monkey the whole time that we were there.

Livvy looked really relaxed. She loved sleeping in grandma's Mickey bed!

Like I said I was terrible at taking pictures. I should have taken picture of them with all of their cousins so they would have the memories in their books. Emma got to sleep over at my sister's so she could spend time with Elena! She loved that and had such a great time. I don't think she wanted to come back. Yesterday after we got home she said she already missed Elena. My dad was brave and decided to take all of the grand kids with him to a movie. They went to Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium and said that it was a really good movie. Emma said that she really liked it. Lane & Eliza got a little bit bored during some slower parts but did really good. I kept Olivia with me and she got to play with my sister's twins that are the same age as Olivia. While my dad was away with all the kids us girls started cooking pies and jello's for Thanksgiving dinner. We had a blast together talking and catching up. Mom & Tori made pumpkin pies while Alisha made Raspberry Cream Cheese Pie and I made the Pretzel Jello. It was pretty sad though because it took me twice as long to make the pretzel jello than it usually does. We were just talking too much. It was nice that we didn't have to worry about the time and could chat.

Thanksgiving day was pretty relaxed. Dad smoked a turkey out on the bbq. It was very good. He also baked one. My brother peeled all of the potatoes. I don't think I have ever seen him peel potatoes before and I cut them. Gayle & Paige did the devilled eggs! YUM! Emily & Mom made stuffing and yams... I had such a great time with all of my family and was so glad that we were able to come.

I almost forgot about BLACK Friday. Mom and I got up at about 6:30 and waited for a call from the other girls. Alisha & Tori went early to a store and were 4th in line and got what they wanted and Gayle & Paige went to a different store and got the things they needed. Then we all met at Fred Meyers where Paige and I got separated from the rest of the pack which wouldn't have been so bad except I left my purse & cell phone in the cart with Mom and Paige left her cell phone out in the car. So we did a little store circling before we found everyone. We were almost ready to resort to using the PA system but luckily didn't have too! We then went to Walmart, Joanns, (another fabric store I can't remember the name), Michael's, Target and then Applebeas for Lunch and then off to Scrapadoodle and then finally Real Deals. I found a cute easel for my tile plaque and some scrap booking stuff and that's about it.

The only stuff I got for the kids were some tights other than that I was just along for the ride and found some fun stuff for myself. We had such a fun day. We didn't get home until 5:00 PM. It was great to spend time with my mom and sisters shopping.