Just Because: Thanksgiving

We had three Thanksgivings this year. We had Mike's dad and siblings over on Wednesday for a lovely Honeybaked Ham. It was fun and I got to hold Krista and John's baby (that is the most important thing to report after all).

On Thursday we went to Cedar City for a dinner with the Bradshaw side of the family (Mike's mom). We were at Mark and Stacy's home. The kids all played downstairs and were spoiled by the older kids and we ate a LOT of food (except for Tyson of course) and then we played a game. It was fun hanging out and talking to all the cousins!

Right after dinner we headed to Salt Lake. It was a fairly uneventful trip and I slept a lot of the way so I can't tell you much :) We stayed with my parents in Salt Lake and the kids played the whole time. I went shopping with Mandi for Black Friday (which started at 10 pm on Thursday). It was fun, although the 3 hours in line at Toys r Us made me NEVER want to go back there again. We were up until 6am shopping. I got the best stuff at Kohls. I had a good time and I might consider doing it again :)

I got Mike an early Christmas present- 2 tickets to the Jazz/Lakers game!!! Oh my gosh! We had so much fun! The game started bad and I was afraid it was an omen for the rest of the night, but the team turned around and the Jazz were ahead the majority of the game. They played SO well. Towards the end it was SO close and I had no idea who would win, but the Jazz pulled it off and Mike was thrilled! Merry Christmas hon!

On Saturday the kids played in the snow and with their cousins (along with a girl Mandi babysits that might as well be a cousin). We just had a really good time. We came home on Sunday during a really bad snow storm. We stopped in Orem to visit one of my college friends and her husband (Devi and Jeremy). It was good to see them! When we got about 20 min. north of Cedar, the traffic was at a standstill and it took us 2 hours to drive those 20 miles into Cedar. Grrrrrr! It was nice to stop and have some leftover Thanksgiving dinner with Mike's mom, his cousin, and his Grandpa.

We ended up getting home much later than we had hoped, but it was a good trip. Here are some pics......something I know you've been waiting for :)