ThanksGiving Weekend

We headed up north Wednesday night for Thanksgiving with the Monson's.  The weather was supposed to be horrible on the way up so we were a little nervous, but it ended up not bad.  The kids were disappointed, because Grandpa and Grandma Monson's house was supposed to get snow, and it bypassed them.  We packed snow gear, and were planning on being out playing in it all day, but nothing came.  The girls and I got to help a lot with Thanksgiving since we were staying with Grandma, and we loved that.  The girls are at an age where they love to be in the kitchen, and helping.  We did the relish tray, helped set the table, made our place settings, and more.  Everyone else started to arrive around 12:30-1, and we started in on the feast.  It was so nice to see everyone and eat great food. After Lunch we all gathered around for the Monson talent show to begin.  I only got a picture of Preston.  He played the xylophone (Deck the halls), then the girls played the piano.  I got them on video so that's why no pictures.  Shaylee played Up on the house top, and Oh come all ye faithful.  Addison Played Silent night, and Rudolph's little brother.  They all did great.  After the talent show, that could have went on for hours…we did the nativity.  We didn't have enough kids, so Dean stepped in to help.  Then we moved onto the kids playing the bells.  They actually did a great job, and loved it.  Even Breck did it with the help of me of course.  After that we settled down for awhile, then people were getting ready to head out and do some black Friday shopping.  Dean and I had done most of ours the night before, but decided to go along to sports authority, because they were giving away 15$ to each person in line.  So dean and I had 30$ we could combined and ended up getting some great deals.  We then headed home for the night.  The weather was terrible, and so Windy.  The next morning we headed out to go Ice Skating (indoors the wind/weather was awful).  We've only been 4 times.  I've only done it for 10 minutes once.  So it was new to me, they let us bring our stroller on the ice so Brecken could skate around with us.  That was a blast, but he got cold.  Dean pushed him a little to fast I think and the breeze made him freeze.  After Ice skating we all met up at El Matador for some yummy Mexican food.  We then all went our separate ways.  We took Breck home and let him take a nap.  When he woke up from his nap we took him with us to go shopping.  We went to the mall so we let him see Santa.  He did just fine and told him he wanted Play dough for Christmas.  He was a little confused when we left without the Play dough.  So cute.  The next day we woke up and made our turkey's for breakfast.  Grandma wanted all the grandkids there to do it, so we waited tell the day after thanksgiving to do it.   The weather was horrible again, so we tried to find things to do inside.  We ended up going down to Lehi with Marie and Eric's family and letting the kids play indoor mini golf, rock climbing, and Laser tag.   It was a lot of fun, and glad we drove out of our way to do that.   We then had plans for a Jazz game that night. We left a little early and took our family out to eat.  Then we headed out to the Jazz game.  They played the Pelicans, and we had a lot of fun.  It was a fun game to watch, and the atmosphere is great.  We had a great vacation, it went by way to fast. We left the next morning which then decided to start snowing a little.   We sure love spending time with family.