{more Gingerbread Party Pictures}

Here's some more from our Gingerbread party.....

{Gingerbread Party}

One of the fun things we do on Thanksgiving is Gingerbread Houses that evening. This year since we had many of the Apos in town we had a big party. Blaine and Vanessa came over with their 3 girls and V's sister and husband and baby boy. K & E were here and Caitlin was still hanging out with us.

So we had 8 houses to make and one tree.

I started on the frosting and all the "adults" started in on the house building.

It was kinda a mess.

Caitlin's bag of frosting blew up on her. K and C were using cans to hold up walls and frosting was everywhere. That was before the decorating even started.

Before long we had 8 houses up and ready to be decorated.

The "kids" decorated and made a bigger mess....but we ate lots of candy, frosting and pie. Laughed a lot and made great memories...

Now we have a small gingerbread village at our house! I love the holidays!!

{thanksgiving 2010}

This year for the holiday we were lucky to have some Apo family come to town.

Caitlin traveled over from DC and Kris and Elisa arrived from SLC.

We had a great time, ate lots, rested lots and shopped a lot (we are Black Friday Shoppers over here). We even made time for an adults evening out before Caitlin had to return home.

Kris and Elisa ended up having to leave early because of a snow storm coming to the SLC area. But before they left they were very brave and took all the kids (mine and Blaine's two oldest) to the movies.

(K cooking with Auntie)

(playing games with Uncle Kris and Auntie Elisa)

We love having the family over and hope that everyone can make a return trip next year too!

A Thanksgiving List

Just a small thankful list....

(in no special order)

my family (near and far)

our little house

our little school

my two little boys (not so little but always will be to me)

my calling at church

all the friends who make our lives so much sweeter

a car that works

blogs

friends that blog

game nights with the boys

ice cream

big holiday sales

rain

my boys school teachers

our church

Our Savior

computers

grocery stores

the library (where else can we spend 2 hours and not spend a penny)

My husband who works hard everyday, puts up with my impatience and craziness, will always do anything to make me happy and is always the one to say he's sorry first, and I will always be grateful he asked me to marry him.

Happy Thanksgiving World!!

Busy and Fun

This week was a busy week for all of us. Chad is now working out of the house and he is staying really buys with that. We are lucky to have him home, and for him to be able to continue to do the same work for himself out of the house. It is a change but so far it is working out really well.

On Thursday night the boys did the Evening at Plimoth plantation play at their school. Once again the lower grammer sang and the upper grammar acted. It was re0written for this year and was so great. Ethan loves to be a part of the performances. He told me that he tried to stand up straight, smile, and make his voice go all the way to the back of the auditorium.

On Friday was the boys Plimoth plantation day at school. this is the 2nd one we have been in town for and the boys loved it. Everyone chooses to dress up like a pilgrim or Indian and then all day they go from center to center to learn new things. Some are crafty so are not. the ones my boys talked about the most are dancing and archery (a brave teacher took that one on, and Ethan is proud to say his arrow stuck into the hay bale they were shooting at)

For lunch they are served what the pilgrims ate at the first thanksgiving. so there is turkey, bread, butter, clam chowder, parsnips, squash, succotash, fish, veggies. everyone gets a little taste of each thing and then they can get more of whatever they want. I worked in the kitchen and serving...so I had to be a pilgrim. Almost all the moms/teachers were pilgrims. It was a fun and tiring day at school.