I took the kids to Arizona for Thanksgiving this year. Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday to spend with my family. For the past two years I have had to miss spending it with them, so this year I was extra excited! Maybe I love the chaos of the currently 43 people or I love my mom's stuffing and smoked turkey or I love shopping on Black Friday with my mom and sister in laws or its a combination of it all! The only part that is difficult is traveling by car 653 miles...yes I kept record. It took us exactly twelve hours from my garage to my parents front door. It didn't seem that long though, I have to admit it was one of the most peaceful drives I have taken. Sometimes just to school seems longer than 12 hours!
We stopped at the dam down in Paige and walked around. The kids thought it was so cool. Mom, well she was terrified of how far down it was!
While in Arizona we got to meet 3 nephews and 1 neice that were born during the "Don't go further than two hours away from the hospital" stage of our life. A couple of the nephews were born just a month ago. They were so cute! All my nieces and nephews are cute. Brandt with baby Carden.
Odette loves babies and wanted to try and drag Carden around like a doll, but fortunately she settled for kisses.
In Arizona the sun was still shining! It actually was the first time that we had visited that we didn't get burned touching the door handles to the car or feel like we were walking into an oven when we went out the front door. (If it was this weather year round, I would move in an instant!) The kids loved a morning of playing at the park.
Josselyn kept trying to do the monkey bars and would go just out where she couldn't reach and freak out for someone to come and save her.
Odette did get some sleep in between all the fun activities. Isn't she so cute sleeping. What an angel!
Meeting baby Brad. I think Odette was figuring out that the babies here weren't like her babies at home in her closet.
We celebrated my niece, Kaylynn's 14th birthday. She grew up fast! We had fun eating out of a trash can lid at some BBQ place (yes I am horrible at names) and doing a little shopping. We also all got to try out her gift...an ipod that is like the iphone but no phone...see, I can't remember any technical names. It is way awesome and now I think I have a few people living here that would like one.
Then, Uncle Geoffry heated up his hot tub and we went swimming! Yes, in November while it was snowing a big old blizzard here at home, the kids were having fun like it was summer vacation!!
Before Odette went swimming we had to try out the long boards the Aunts and Uncle were playing on. Odette loved it and even figured out how to lay on it and push with her hands to make it move. Josselyn even tried it out and even though she crashed she still thought it was fun.
It was one of the "bestest" Thanksgivings ever! We celebrated two birthdays, blessed two babies, had a family picture done with all the family and no one was crying or throwing up! (I will post when I get a copy) and ate lots and lots of yummy food! My mom will always make the best stuffing! And, well, my family will always be the BESTEST family ever to spend Thanksgiving with!
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