Thanksgiving

(Carrot Wars)

  This year we were at my parents house for Thanksgiving.  The whole family was there which made for a full, fun and noisy house!  The food was of course FABULOUS! We would expect nothing less from my Mom.  We enjoyed your traditional feast on Thanksgiving day and continued to be spoiled with yummy food the rest of the weekend including homemade donuts! I love homemade donuts!!

Allie is waiting for the Thanksgiving feast to begi

How else do you handle a room full of people with more then half under the age of 10?

  The women went on their annual black Friday shopping trip.  This year we actually started at Walmart on Thursday night at midnight and then AnnMarie, Jenny and I drove straight to Idaho Falls.  We then slept in Jenny's van in the Staples/Target parking lot.  Why did we do that? Well we figured we would get more sleep that way then driving back to my parents house sleeping at home getting up extra early driving back into town and then to Idaho Falls.  Jenny and I actually stayed pretty warm in the sleeping bags we brought.

   On Saturday we went to an indoor soft play fun park.  We all had a blast and worked off a few pounds.  They had a big foam pit that you could jump into from the second story balcony.  If you got over the fear of jumping in then you had to figure out how to swim through the foam squares to the side of the pit while being pelted with foam squares.  They also had trampolines to jump on and this big gymnastic mat to play on.  We had a few exciting games of dodge ball that the men dominated at.

  They also had this big rubberband thing that four people would get in and then the two people across from each other would run and switch sides stretching out the rubber band and flinging the other two people towards each other.  It was CRAZY and dangerous.  Krissy did a great flip landing on her back and Jason collided with Mat and bruised a few ribs.

   We were suppose to be driving to Boise Saturday afternoon to meet our newest niece and cousin Rachel but because of the weather we didn't make the trip.  Kassie was in tears about not going!  Hopefully we will get to see them soon.  Like most people we endured a slow drive home Sunday.  The roads weren't to bad for us.  Our delays were mainly caused by accidents that slowed the traffic down to one lane.  Our normal 2 hour drive took us about 3 hours.  It could have been much worse.  We are so Thankful that we made it home safe.  We are especially thankful for my parents for all the time that was put into making our Thanksgiving weekend so enjoyable.