Turkey Trip

I'm about two weeks late on this post, but as most people say, better late than never. We had a fabulous trip to Utah for Thanksgiving. We had a great flight with no holiday hassle traveling, no horror stories to speak of. Our friends the Eckersley's made up for our lack of horror stories in their trip to Utah, but those stories are for them to tell! The kids were great on the plane, we each took one, and played with our iPods, colored, and played Bakugans.

We were only in Utah for 4 whole days, 2 travel days, so it was a short trip. We managed to see all of our family and a few friends, some of which we hadn't seen in years! We had Thanksgiving dinner with Chris's mom and uncle's family. It was a delicious meal and great conversation. There were too many highlights to write down, but hopefully pictures will capture some of them.

The day before we left Maci had her 1st grade music recital at the school. She even had a speaking part, her recipe for Mashed Potatoes at a Thanksgiving Feast. She did a great job. We have bits on tape, if I ever figure out how to upload video, maybe I'll do that!!

The Highlight of the travelling part of our trip, the Captain on one of the legs of our journey let the kids sit in his chair, and even pull things and push buttons, set off alarms, all while the plain was off of course :-D But the kids thought it was very cool, especially Gavin! He was in there probably 5 minutes? the Captain was really great about it, the stewardess said he's just a big kid.

I should have taken more pictures! We had plenty of Grandma and Grandpa time on both sides, cousin time, sister time for me, candy making time, and wrestling with Uncle Todd until he's ready to scream time! Although it's never enough time (especially when we miss you all so much), we really enjoyed our trip.

This week we've been busy getting ready for the holiday. I saw a kit to make rice crispie houses instead of gingerbread houses and thought that looked fun and different, so the kids and I gave it a whirl one night while Chris was at school. They loved it. I thought this might be more edible, but after sitting out for a couple days, I'm pretty sure it would break a tooth, and Uncle Don would be very upset at us! Still, the pieces were a little easier to attach on a flat surface instead of a vertical house. I saved the mold so we can make them again!

Chris has finals next week, so he's been studying like crazy and getting projects and papers done. He's looking forward to his month off of school, even though he's planning on working on his thesis a lot during that time. We finalized most of our Christmas shopping tonight, thank goodness, we're not usually this behind! Now to wrap it all and get ready for the big day. We're planning on going to Silver Dollar City tomorrow, they're supposed to have fantastic Christmas shows and lights this time of year. We're going to brave the 30 degree weather (feels like 20, or so the weather man tells me) and keep warm for at least a couple hours while we have some fun!

We found some time to squeeze in some family pics with Joel Jenkins. Thank you for squeezing us in Joel on such short notice!! They turned out so great, I LOVE them!!