Thanksgiving Weekend

It seems as though the Holidays are always full of going here and there and doing this and that.  This Thanksgiving Holiday was no different but we sure had fun!

Thursday we spent Thanksgiving with my mom in Mendon.  Grandma arrived at our house with yummy dips around 2:00.  Dave actually had to work so we coordinated our Thanksgiving Feast around him and didn't eat until 5:30.  We had a yummy moist turkey that we started slow cooking from frozen the night before.  I have decided that I won't cook a turkey any other way.  It was so moist and yummy!  We also had our famous sweet potato souffle, which all three of my girls loved.  I made homemade garlic cheese rolls....another yum.  Grandma made delicious mashed potatoes and gravy and a yummy cherry cheesecake.  we ended the night by watching a movie and then taking Grandma home at 9 p.m.

On Friday, all three girls performed with their TaVaci group at the Novemberfest, which is a craft show held at the Rec center every year on Thanksgiving weekend.  It was such a hoot watching Nicole.  I'll post pictures of the performance later in it's own post.

After the performance, it was off to Nibley to enjoy round two of the Thanksgiving Feast with the Welkers.  We ate dinner at the church and this allowed the kids to have a large place to run and play.  Later in the evening, we returned to the Welker Ranch to enjoy pie and ice cream.  The homemade apple pie was my favorite.

Dave took a couple of days off, which is giving him a really nice "long" weekend.  He doesn't return to work until Wednesday.  It was nice to have a weekend together (we don't get these very often) and to actually have two adults cleaning.  Aaaahhhh......it brought a cleaning project of the storage room to an end and the amazing cleansing feeling throughout the body.

We worked in the house Saturday morning and then that afternoon we headed into town for family pictures!  The girls did really good.  The photographer was amazing with Nicole.  The pictures are cute and I can't wait until I can pick them up on Thursday.

Then came Sunday.......now comes Monday and back to work and school.

I love this time of year.  I love celebrating Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Too bad it goes by so quickly.