We had a wonderful Thanksgiving full of Family, Friends and Food. The "3 F's" as we call it in our family...what is better than that?
But with every wonderful thing, we also had...the cold. All of us are sick: Livi, Luke, Spencer, my mom and Spencer...yuck! Most of our nights were spent up with Livi because of her coughing...this made for some LONG NIGHTS! Anyway...
Tuesday: Mom and Dad drove to our home. Andru, Marilee and Kids came too and stayed with Marilee's sister, Natalie.
Wednesday: we drove out to Painesville (east of Kirtland) to Natalie and Gregg's home. We had a great time preparing the pies and the main course for the Thanksgiving feast! Thankfully the pies got done and we had dessert. Apparantly there is a tradition that my parent's started a few years ago to eat PIE and dessert the night before since there wouldn't be any room AFTER the feast. All the pies were DELICIOUS! We had 2 pecan pies, a cranberry/apple pie, pumpkin, keylime and a frozen mint icecream pie. My favorites were pecan and the cranberry/apple. YUM!
Thursday: We drove back out for dinner and it was wonderful. I must say...my mom is an AMAZINGLY good cook! (Yes, other's helped too! Natalie, LUke, Marilee, Me, etc) I also don't think that she minded cooking in Natalie's GORGEOUS kitchen either! It was a beautiful evening and meal. We ended up playing games as a family: signs, potholder, apples to apples. Then we brought out the rest of the pies (thank goodness we had some leftover!!) and played Ticket to Ride and Settlers. Of course I forgot my camera BOTH nights!!
Friday: Today we spent the afternoon/evening in Kirtland. The Metropark out in that area have a Candy Land exhibit where the kids can go and play a life-like version of it. It was BEAUTIFUL and the kids had a great time. We did some gingerbread crafts, walked through the Nature Park and then went to Panera for dinner. Candy Land:
Giant Lollipops
A bit later we traveled BACK to Kirtland to see the tree Lighting and Nativities.. Wow! They had 3 rooms dedicated to the different nativities. The school house was full of Nativities from around the world (Uganda, Germany, Phillipines, etc), upstairs in the Visitor's Center they had a room for the kids' nativities and they were allowed to play with them...and the other room was dedicated to the Nativities that other's had brought. There were hundreds of them! Unfortunately with a tired toddler, we left early before I could take a picture, but it was truly amazing and it was a sight to remember. We love Kirtland!
Nativities from around the world:
Uganda
Rwanda
Saturday: We slept in and slept all day! We spent time together and went out to eat and to the mall. Finished the night with Harry Potter 5.
Sunday: mom and dad left to go home. Hope that they miss the HUGE snowstorm blowing in! Thanks for coming and hanging out with us...we had a FANTASTIC Thanksgiving and hopefully we can see you at Christmas!
7 comments:
Soumds like you were busy and you had lots of fun. Are you feeling pretty good now besides you guys being sick sick?
What a fun time. And it looks like we have the same taste in backgrounds for our blogs!! Can I have the recipe for those yummy looking rolls??
I'm so sorry to hear about the sickness! I hope you are on the upswing and that this sickness thing stops for all of us! Sounds like you had such a fun Thanksgiving nonetheless.
It looks like you stayed busy! :) Get feeling better!
Wow! Look at ya'll. It's always a fun time when you hang out with the Kirkhams. I'm glad your family was able to come out for Thanksgiving. It's always nice to have them around during the holidays. And I hope that you'll be able to be with family during the Christmas as well. Oh, and I hope all of you get feeling better soon. Miss ya'll.
Boy you guys have had a rough time of it lately! I am glad you managed to have a nice holiday despite all that. I hope you are feeling better (permanently) soon--we miss you!
Hey! I just saw your blog off a friends blog. I have been wondering what you guys are up to! Feel free to check out our blog as well at fabulousfifes.blogspot.com Your kids are all grown up, they are really cute. The last time I saw you I think Olivia was only a baby still. Time flys. love you guys.
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