I am grateful for..

Family....I had so much fun this past week. We had Jason's parents and two of his brothers and their families in town for the holiday. And can I say 3 two year olds that means trouble! I was worried that they might not get along but I think that maybe they got along too well because they.... got in makeup

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It was a house full but I wouldn't want it any other way. They came in early Wednesday morning and left Sunday afternoon. On Wednesday we baked 6 pumpkin pies a cherry (for me!) and apple pie. We got all the 3 salads done, and I even made taco soup for dinner. Thanks to all the help of my mother in law and sister in law! I was feeling pretty good. Thursday morning I woke up and went to get the turkey ready to put in the oven and found that it had leaked all over the fridge.....yuck! We got the turkey in and I got making the rolls and then all the last minute preparations. I think that it turned out well and hope everyone else did too!

After dinner, we needed something for the kids to do so Jason and his brother Mark took them to the pool and went swimming. I never would have thought we would be swimming on Thanksgiving, but it was warm enough thanks to the pool heater!

Jason went and played football with his brother and some guys from the ward, and on the way home he was supposed to pick up a paper so we could see the ads. Let's just say I won't have him do that again, he got the wrong paper and so all the girls went to try to find a paper while the turkey was cooking and the guys had the kids at the park. We went to 3 different stores and finally got some at Walgreens. We had to look at the ads and plan for the next day's adventures. I have never been shopping the morning after Thanksgiving so I didn't know what I was in for. And lets just say it was an adventure don't know if I will do it again, but I did get some Christmas shopping done. Someone actually tried to take something from my cart, luckily Randa (my sister in law) was there to make sure they didn't grab it!

We tried to go to the mall on Saturday but decided that we didn't want to fight all the people and we couldn't even get a parking space. So we headed out to Cabela's and I was pleasantly surprised to find that it wasn't all that busy. We let the men walk around and look at the guy stuff and we took the kids to see the fish, and the animals. Next stop was Costco, my sister in law April had a costco card so we went and shopped there. I was able to get Kylie and Tanner a gift each there. So I did have a pretty successful day shopping wise.

Saturday we ended up going to Home Depot where we looked at the beadboard and crown molding....future projects and Jason got some things for our outdoor lighting. I think we ended that night playing Scene It, the game about movies. The girls beat the guys, and I don't think they liked it too much. Oh well, I don't think we'll play that movie anytime soon.

Sunday morning I got up at 5:30 and got ready for church, it ended up being that I didn't need to get up that early because I was the only one to go. I taught the lesson in Beehives so Paige and I went to churchand I actually was able to enjoy the meetings because I wasn't wrestling with kids. We got home and I made cookies and had lunch and then everyone left to go back to California. Tanner was so cute he and his cousin Landrie packed his bags so he could go with them. I told him that I needed him to be home with me and he said no you don't mom I just want to go to California. I talked him out of going by telling him we could put up the Christmas tree!

Love this picture of Jason's dad the glasses are perfect for him!