Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

When I think back to last Monday it seems like a long time ago, but this week went all too fast.  Monday morning Alan took Jared and Lauren to school and then went and got the oil changed in the car.   At home we had some friends come and play.  We had a couple of boys come over all morning and the ones that usually come on Mondays too.  It got a little crazy since it was all 3 year old boys and their little siblings, but we had fun. They all left just in time to walk down and get Lauren.   We worked on cleaning up and we played outside in the afternoon.  We also made a quick trip to get some fuzzy white yarn for Santa's beard on Bradley's stocking.

Tuesday Alan took the car again to get fixed some more.  Some cap was leaking oil out.  Jared and Lauren had early release and we walk down both times to pick them up.  In the afternoon we played outside for a little bit and some more friends came over to play.  That night we went to the last home women's volleyball game for this season.  We had a fun time there and saw Jeff and Elizabeth.

Lauren got to bring home her fun costumes on Tuesday.  Her necklace has a really nice pattern.

Goggles for the turkey hunt!

Bradley's turkey headband from nursery.

Wednesday was the first full day of Thanksgiving vacation!!!  We got ready for Grandma and Grandpa Schachterle a little in the morning.  We went to a special thing they were doing at the museum of peoples and cultures.  They had a scavenger hunt which Jared did and then we made masks.  When we were done there we headed down to ready to learn.  After that we made a quick stop at the library.  We had to really hurry home.  Grandma and  Grandpa got there about 5 minute after we got back.  (Alan had stayed home and cleaned up some more...and Greg came up at some point too.)  We had a fun afternoon just hanging out with everyone.  We worked on pies and make stuffing and cranberry relish too.


Jared read all of the first magic tree house book before breakfast in his underwear...I waited until he was on the second book after breakfast to take the picture.  He was pretty excited about being able to check them out from the school library.

Thursday was Thanksgiving.  We watched the parade in the morning and finished making our food.  Jeff and Elizabeth worked on food at their house too.  Around noon the first group of people went up to the multipurpose building to start setting up.   (We went and ate up there just so we would have more space.)  More went around 1 and the rest got there some time after that.   I think we ate a little after 2...maybe.  We had tons of yummy food!!!  It was fun to go up to the other building too.  After cleaning up a few of us walked up to the great valley (some others had gone on Wednesday too.)  We saw deer there both days.  We came home and finished cleaning up and then ate pie.  Lauren kept asking what dinner was and she was pretty excited to find out that pie and ice cream were for dinner :)

Lauren and Grandpa and Greg were the first ones up to the building to set up.

Making punch!!

Yum Yum Yum!!!

broccoli/ cauliflower bake, stuffing, creamed corn, coconut sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, turkey, gravy, green bean casserole, cranberry relish, rolls

playing while the rest of us stuffed!

Alan was good about taking pictures, but he didn't give us any warning.

Having a ride

Up at the great valley

Pie Time! (pumpkin, reeses peanut butter cup, pear, chocolate chip cookie, walnut, coconut, apple...plus a few doubles)...all that is left now are small slices of pumpkin and walnut!

Friday we got up and went to the temple with Greg, Grandma, Grandpa, Jeff, and Elizabeth.  Spencer was nice enough to come watch Jared, Lauren, Bradley, and Connor.  Luckily for all of them Connor slept most of the time.  We just played more in the afternoon.  Lots of people played outside.  Grandma worked on some of her knitting...and I tried to too.  After lunch/dinner we went up to temple square to see the lights up there.  Everyone was pretty tired, but it was still fun to go see them.

Saturday we slept in a little.  Alan changed some lights on the car that needed replacing and I went to Hobby Lobby with Connor and Grandma and Grandpa.  People played outside more and we watched the BYU football game.  After dinner we played some fun games all together and just enjoyed being together.

Everyone dressing up to show Grandma and Grandpa

Getting a Ride

This morning Grandma and Grandpa got up early and had to leave for home.  We were sad to see them go.  There weren't very many people at our ward today.  Everyone must still have been gone on vacation.  It was a good day.  I worked on Brad's stocking more and we had stations and just tried to recover from such a fun Thanksgiving with everyone.  Jeff and Elizabeth did come over to help finish off the pie...and we almost did.

I'm not really looking forward to going back to school this week, but it will be good.  If we go back it will just get us that much closer to our next break...Christmas!!  There are a couple of things to look forward to this week, so our week should be a good one.  Hopefully yours will be an orange-pineapple one too!