We had a pretty good Thanksgiving last year. Cousins came over the week before for a play date and made cute coffee filter turkeys, and combined with some other pictures the kids made at school or at home, we had a festive little art display in our family room.
My grandparents came up from southern Utah for Thanksgiving weekend. We were lucky enough to have them stay with us, which was lovely. They are so good with the kids and so patient with the craziness in our house. They read with the kids, Oma did Eliza's hair a couple of times, and when it was time to watch FSU football or put up Christmas decorations, they were happy to help with those things too. We took them down to the BYU Musum of Art one evening to see this great Norman Rockwell exhibit they had there and they really enjoyed that, even if it did completely tire them out. Oops...
It was pretty cold that weekend, but at least the kids were excited to see the first decent snow of the winter. They had fun playing outside, and Ben helped Eliza make an itty bitty snowman too.
On Thanksgiving Day we were pretty lazy. I made cinnamon rolls (which finally turned out really good - I knew I'd beat the odds eventually!) and we ate them close to lunch time, haha. Then we went to my cousin's house where lots of extended family was gathering for dinner. I don't have a single picture from dinner, but it was big and yummy, just as it should be.
It's a real consolation for me that being as far away from most of our family as we are, at least we're just a few hours from my grandparents. We've loved getting to spend time with them during our Utah Years.
Precious, precious. You can sense the love in those pics.
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