Thanksgiving Weekend activities

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEKEND!

Thanksgiving Day pies

PIE NIGHT. Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, we had our 7th annual "Pie Night." Everybody brings a pie, or something else if they don't care for pies. The idea is you should eat the best stuff first, of course, so we have our dessert on Wednesday night, before the big turkey dinner on Thursday. :) :)

TURKEY DAY. We had a relaxing Thanksgiving Day dinner with some fun families from church. 5 families came, and I believe we had 24 people (kids' ages ranged from 4 to 16yrs). The best part is only having to cook 2 dishes, and the rest is supplied by other people!

Afterwards we played games -- an oldie, "Catch Phrase," and a new one: Codenames. Then we ate some more food. Yep, lots of food.

WAY back in 4th grade,
Kara broker her leg...

DINNER CONVERSATION. For whatever reason, injuries came up as a topic (I know, around the dinner table, right?!?!) and Kara talked about when she broke her leg in the 4th grade. She also had this conversation with someone at school a couple of months ago. Back then, I sent her a picture of her xray, on her phone.  So, she even got to show everybody the xray of her broken leg...?!?!? Dinner was close to being over at that point, anyway. Bleh.

PEOPLE HERE. Another treat was having Angela here for the weekend! Here is a photo of her and Kara preparing our green bean casserole.


David and Teresa did not come home :(, but they'll be here for Christmas in a few weeks! Yippee! Although I think their "Yippee" will be more of an "I'm-So-Glad-Finals-Are-Over!!" type of thing, ha!

They each had Thanksgiving Dinner at different friends' houses. They took a mini-trip on Friday to Salt Lake City, to visit with cousins. Rachelle lives there now, and Sheree lives 1 3/4 hours north of SLC. She drove down with her family and they had a dinner together. Cool huh! Here's a picture Rachelle sent me, of the 4 cousins.

David, Rachelle, Sheree, Teresa

Angela, Kara + tree

DECORATING THE TREE. We took advantage of Angela being here, to decorate the Christmas tree. It's more fun with more people :)

We love taking out the ornaments Grandma Kay has given over the years. Some are musical, and we put the batteries in (we store the batteries separately between Christmases) and play the songs.

Journal gift from David

THANKSGIVING. About 6 weeks ago, I started a "Gratitude Journal" with this beautiful journal/ notebook David brought me back from Italy. Each day, I list 3 things I am thankful for. It may be a quick list, only a few words, or sometimes I end up writing a paragraph, describing the story behind my "thankful" thing. It has really helped me see how MANY wonderful blessings I have, family and friends being among the most important. We are so blessed.

Hope your weekend was relaxing, or fun, or filling, or whatever you wanted it to be!

Love, Kari