Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was spent this year at my parent's house in Clifton, ID. Everyone was there except for Jeremy and his family. We all managed to fit inside my mom and dad's house with the older girls out in the trailer. (Angie and family only came for the day.) We were blessed by Cache (Ryan and Angela's one-year-old) and Lucas's (Jaime and Steve's 22-month-old) peculiar sleeping habits and early morning risings. The boys were smothered with attention from everyone.
Lucas was moving really slow on this trip. He was recovering from a fractured thigh bone in his left leg. (He was playing at my house a few weeks earlier and stumbled to the ground. When he tried to stand back up he went down again and was howling and grabbing his leg. The first set of x-rays they had taken in Gooding the day after showed that there was nothing wrong but the second set taken by Steve's mother in Idaho Fall's two weeks later showed new bone growth in one area of his thigh. It looked as if everything was healing fine so no further action was needed. He is running around now but you can tell that he still walks with a little bit of a limp.)
The day before Thanksgiving we played games and prepped for the next afternoon. The day of Thanksgiving, Jaime curled all of the girl's hair with her new rollers while we shuffled food to the community center. We ate there since we couldn't all fit into my mom and dad's house comfortably. We had great food and it was all over in about 15 minutes. My mom is such a great cook! After eating, some of us played volleyball outside (what a beautiful day!) and had a competitive game of Bunco.
The next day us ladies got up at 5 a.m to leave for Black Friday shopping in Logan, UT. We got some great deals and had lunch at the Olive Garden. When we arrived back at my parent's house, Alan had the vehicle all loaded and ready to go. My head was bobbing in and out of sleep the whole way home. It was well worth the drive and the sleepless nights!
BTW: Jaime is due with her second in April or May of next year!