Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We started off spending the morning with my family in Park City and then headed over to spend the rest of the day with Dan’s family.

Dan’s cousin and his family came. They have four of the cutest boys. They loved Abi and she got a long well with them.

We had a wonderful dinner with each person saying what they were thankful for. Then we played the Candy Bar game. It is a game that my mom’s family would play every time we got together and is a great group game. I wanted to pass it on and share it. My favorite parts of the game were that Great Grandpa Walter Thomas had so many candy bars behind his back, Brock rolled a winning roll every time, and I only rolled once in which my candy bar was stolen before I could even touch it. Hilarious!

Jocie and I snuck out to go see Lincoln in the evening with baby Torino and some of my family. He was a champ and slept the whole time – and it’s a long movie! We loved the movie. I came away feeling so grateful for their inspiration in creating our nation and feeling a sense of pride for our nation that I haven’t felt before. However, it was such a harsh reality realizing where we are today and I couldn’t help but feeling sorrow at the same time.

We left the girls in Park City to play with their cousins for a day while we stayed home and worked on a big project for Santa… Abi will be so excited! We were so grateful for the good weather for us to be able to work in Santa’s shop and not freeze.