So much to be thankful for...

Thanksgiving weekend is one long, wonderful holiday for our family. We are so grateful to have both families so close. We eat two, yes two, thanksgiving dinners, and get to spend time with both families. We really are so thankful for family!

How can you not love all the cute Thanksgiving art that covers our walls. This is the "5 little turkeys sitting on a fence"-Rylee learned a lot about how we get our Thanksgiving turkey for our feast. She sings the song about these cute turkeys who hide on Thanksgiving day. So, just before we eat our turkey feast, she asks me..."who here killed the turkey?". She knew one of those turkeys were no longer sitting on that fence. We got pretty creative with some answers.

The tables were set with such great care. They were beautiful. Marilyn always does a little extra, and had a cute favor at each of our place settings.

Our wild Indians made some cute hats and would hardly sit still for a picture.

We played lots of silly "turkey" games. Travis is the biggest turkey of them all!

On Friday, we bundled up and went to see the opening night of the Christmas lights at Temple Square. Boston asked Travis..."why don't we have lights like this?". I say..."ya dad"!

It really does take my breath away every year. They are a wonderful sight.


On Saturday, my family did a little service project instead of buying gifts for each other this year. We did a big grocery shop for the Utah Food Bank. We actually took the food to Jiffy Lube because they will double your donation-not bad! I could not get all the food in one picture. It felt good to do something for someone else.

The whole clan went to dinner after our service. We always get "the look" when we go out. Hi-party of twenty please! We also saw Australia-good show.

We attended our traditional performace of the "Messiah", a Christmas sing-a-long, with the Utah Symphony. It becomes even more apparent that I am tone deaf when I attend this event. I don't even know where people get their beautiful voices. It is amazing to hear Abravanel Hall filled with wonderful singers, singing about our Savior.

Even Rylee taged along with us (and played on Dad's iphone the whole time).

And that is a wrap! Monday is here and we are ready to relax and recover from the weekend. Actually-I am so excited to get out all the Christmas decor, but it seems a bit weird to do so without any snow.