Thanksgiving, Turkey & Trees...

Happy Thanksgiving!!! We had such a fun holiday weekend. We spend Thanksgiving at my parent's house this year. Most of my sisters, and my brother were there and a couple of my mom's sisters. We had tons of good food and just a fun time visiting.

Thanksgiving Day we got up early and drove to my parents house. Jared deep fried the turkey like he has for the past few years. My sisters, mom, and I spent most of the morning in the kitchen making pies, dips, potatoes, stuffing, etc. I love Thanksgiving because you get all of the fun family stuff plus all of the good food without all the worry and hassle of presents.

Jared and Uncle Ray cooking the turkey


Lucas and Dad

Mom

Yummy deep fried Turkey!!

Me & Lucas

Lucas, Baby Orin, & Me

Tabi

My cute parents

Jared, Trent, Josh, & Tyler

On Friday after Thanksgiving we were invited to a friends house for more turkey dinner. Tyler wanted to use his new turkey frier and Jared told him he would help him out so we went down and had dinner with the Painters. Tonya made a bunch of yummy food and it was just like a second Thanksgiving!!

We also set up one of our Christmas trees and Jared hung the lights on the house. The girls were so excited. We listened to music and danced around. Soo much fun!!

Poor Lucas, Paige found this little viking hat at the Painter house and put it on her brother. He did look so adorable though.

We have been trying to get a tree permit all week, but everyone is sold out. We thought it would be fun to cut down our own tree. So we tried and tried, but we just couldn't get a permit. We looked at the tree lots, but the trees were all over priced and almost dead, so we found a place in Farr West that had a Christmas Tree Farm.

On Saturday we went with our friends the Carters and we drove to Farr West and in true Griswold fashion, we cut down our own trees. The girls loved it. It was a ton of fun walking around through all those trees.

Paige & Kinley

The Carter Family

Our family

Jared cutting down our tree

We managed to get both trees tightly strapped in the back of Jared's truck. Jared and Craig had an easy ride with only 1 kid in the car with them. Jessica and I had the other 7. What a loud bunch of girls. We vote that next time Jessica and I are going to drive the truck and Jared and Craig will get to drive the suburban with all the kids. Hey fair is fair, right?!!

We figured since we had already driven all that way we would make a day of it, so we drove out to Antelope Island on our way home. We drove around and ended up at the ranch. We walked around for a while and let all the girls look around and explore.

Craig showing all the girls how to rope a cow.

Right before I took this picture Paige slipped a little and screamed and it scared Lucas. He started crying but I wanted to take the picture anyway.

Cutie pie Laney

MaKady and Kaitlee

We finally saw some buffalo on the way out. They were kind of far away but Jared and Craig got out of the car and walked a little closer.

It was a super fun Thanksgiving weekend and a great way to start out our Christmas Holiday.