Thanksgiving 2015 Video

Thanksgiving 2015

We had a WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!

This year we spent Thanksgiving with the Hodgkinson side.

(It has been about 4 years since we were last with my side on Thanksgiving).

We only had two problems with the whole day:

#1- We missed my sister, Heather, and her family.

#2- Our family is full of AMAZING cooks and EVERYTHING was so good that we got too full!

I didn't take a ton a pictures, because I did a lot of video this time.

(I'll post the video soon).

Here are the few pictures that I took.

Mom always sets a beautiful table.

This year was my favorite.

Dad carving the turkey!

My cute sister-in-law, Jadi did a cute play last year for the Gunnerson family.

She was nice enough to not only let me copy her, but MAILED the play, costumes, and props.
Thanks Jadi!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I sure am thankful for this WONDERFUL family of mine!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I LOVE Thanksgiving!

We woke up Thursday morning and put our last leaves on our Thankful Tree.

(We later used the leaves to turn Andrew into a Turkey--he's so cute!!)

After we watched the parade, the kids helped me make our pies!
(Because we all know they are awesome at MAKING PIE!)

Then we headed to my parents' house.

My mom always does such a great job setting the table.

I thought this year was particularly cute!

Especially the place cards...mainly because Lindsay has been calling herself,
"Lin-zia!"

So, here is her place card. 

We loved being with family while we waited for the finishing touches on the meal.

And let the meal begin!!

Look at all that food!!  And that isn't even all of it!
We also had NINE pies for dessert!!

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

The First Thanksgiving

We had a little mini Thanksgiving with a few friends.

I sure love these kiddos.

 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

I Love to See the Temple.

Last week we had Stake Conference.

Someone shared President Monson's quote, 

"Let your children touch the temple so it can touch them."

They talked about letting your kids physically touch the temple.

Yesterday, after naps, we took the kids on a walk to the temple and let them touch it.

I think that the temple did touch them.

When we got home, Matt wanted to change his leaf on our "Thankful Tree."

He wanted his leaf to show that he's thankful for the temple.

 

"Let your children touch the temple so it can touch them."

Happy Thanksgiving!!

First thing Wednesday morning we headed in to the doctor’s office and found out the gender of our little baby!!  (More on that later).

Following the appointment we finished packing a few things for our trip to St. George.  I kept thinking through everything we packed.  Did we have the camera?  Did we have extra memory cards?  The extra camera lens?  Check. Check. Check.

We got down to St. George and I took this picture of Lindsay, then our camera died.  And I didn't bring the charger!  Grrr!!!  Luckily, we used Darin’s camera phone, and that actually worked out pretty well.  Yay for technology!

We had a WONDERFUL time in St. George in mom and dad’s beautiful home!  Lucky for me, I married into a fabulous family, with an amazing cook for a mother-in-law.  Every meal was delicious!  Including the actual Thanksgiving feast!

Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were filled with playing croquet, volleyball, lots of shopping (including Olivia taking me on my first black Friday adventure), eating, visiting, and relaxing!  It was the perfect vacation!

(I LOVE this picture of Lindsay giving Liv a hug...and I LOVE her moccasins). 

Saturday was Matt’s favorite part of the trip when we explored the red rocks. 

After church on Sunday we headed back home, and even the rides were enjoyable since Heather let us use her awesome DVD players!  (Thanks Heather!)

Thanks mom and dad for the WONDERFUL Thanksgiving!  We had a wonderful time and we love you so much!