Thanksgiving fun

We had a really great Thanksgiving. Theron was able to be home so that made it even better! We all got to sleep in then after the food was started we all went out and raked leaves. It was fun. Michael mowed the lawn sucking up the leaves to put in the trailer. Then we had a fabulous dinner!! or Linner? haha it was like 3:30 or so since we didn't get the turkey in to cook as early as we'd hoped. =) After we were all stuffed to the gills we did family pictures. hahahahahaha! Not a good time and definitely not recommended. lol =) We just used the timer on the camera and got a few different pictures so we could pick out a Christmas card picture.

The Christmas season had been great so far. We've got all our decorations up already. We even put lights on the outside of the house this year. We haven't done that in FOREVER!! I'm guess they'll stay up year round? hahaha....not sure. We need to get the shingles replaced this coming year so I'm sure we'll get them down at that point. The Christmas music really helps keep the Christmas spirit around this place. Amazing how fast time is flying lately. What happened to the days that used to drag and time never seemed to go fast enough? I'm all for dragging the month of December out. =)

Thanksgiving weekend.

Thanksgiving weekend was a lot of fun around here. My brother Hyrum and his family came to town. It was great. We had a really nice Thanksgiving stayed really busy. Here's some pictures of the fun. Michael was up and at 'em like he hadn't had surgery...crazy kid. Can't keep him down. Anyway, it was lots of fun. Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving as well!!

Playing Eye to Eye Thanksgiving night. Hyrum stealing the oreos. haha!

Kristi chillin' with Owen and Brigham looks like he might tackle Uncle Theron. :)

Dad and Theron stacking the wood that Hyrum brought down for us.

Dad, me, Hyrum and Theron all stacking wood.

more wood stacking :)

Jacob after his Thanksgiving meal :)

Theron taking it easy after eating.

We're getting ready to eat.

Benjamin holding Owen

Mmmmm, now we're digging in. Brigham and Makenzi were done first so I didn't get them in the picture fast enough...darn it.

Kristi looking mighty chipper on our Walmart spree at 5 something in the morning. woohoo

Can you say "yikes"? haha! It was a zoo for the first hour in that store. Yes, we spent 2 hours shopping. haha!

We were all done and on our way to McDonald's for breakfast at this point.

little Owen surrounded by our goodies

Madelynne got her hair chopped off.

Every little girl has a short phase, eh? This is hers....hopefully the last, hahahaha!

We got home from shopping to see that the guys has drilled a hole in the ceiling to find the chimney for installing the wood stove. it was a disaster. I see why they waited for us to be gone, it wouldn't have happened otherwise. haha!

That was soot pouring down. At first there was no tarp. I stopped that quick and they cleaned up the mess they'd made then we covered everything. Good heavens, haven't they seen Mary Poppins?

Anyway, it was a fun filled weekend. Kristi got a lot of pictures I didn't. It was sort of a "grab the nearest camera" weekend. I loved playing Guitar Hero with Brigham. That was too cute. Hyrum and Kristi gave it a try too. Fun fun.