Thanksgiving Late

I had a really nice, fun, relaxing thanksgiving. Maybe wasn't that so much for Jenny and her family since I basically just crashed there fun. Have I mentioned what an awesome family I have? I've crashed Nathan and Neita's party a few times, and this is the 2nd Thanksgiving I went to TX. I know mom misses me (well at least I hope she does) but I feel like since I go home for Christmas, Thanksgiving gives me a chance to see and spend time with some siblings in their natural habbitats. Also when I was in school in ID, and on the mission its not like I went home for turkey.


Anyways, enough of that. Here Melanie blogged about our trip, and here too. Jenny already blogged about Thanksgiving too, so this will be repeats, but I wanted to write about it anyways. I sure wish I had taken more photos, as I didn't get pictures of everyone, but its ok since they know they were there. Like I said before, it was a great Thanksgiving and I am so thankful for all the blessings I have, including the chance to be with family.





On leaving the airport there was something imediately different. it was WARM! I just sat in the sunshine and felt so good. After Jenny picked me up we had to get some nice pie plates for the culinary masterpieces. I got Jenny an apron. I wanted to get her the one that said she was queen (or this "sexy" one) but the one we picked out had better fabric. Here you can see Jenny using it, and Melanie doing something silly.






Jenny also treated me to some tasty noodles that night at an asian diner thingymajig.





Tom did a smoked turkey and boy was it tasty! We had all the usual fixins and they were all extremely tasty too. Also did some "appetizors" in Jenny's fry daddy. I always get appliance envy, but its probably good if I don't endulge in this one, but boy are fried things tasty! Speaking of kitchen appliances, Jenny needs an apple peeler, corer, slicer!

We ate a good lunch/ dinner, and due to the appetizers there was plenty of left overs for turkey sandwiches, etc the next day!

We had pie too, later of course when we could enjoy it better.

Jenny and Tom spent lots of money and warmed up the pool. It felt so good! We swam during the day and soaked in the hot tub at night for a couple of days. I didn't spend as much time in there as Jacob did since he saw rainbows around all the lights that night.

We went to belly dancing on Friday morning. We woke up late and Jenny was very stressed out... One of the girls said, "my mom is crying in the car." when I was taking the time to brush my teeth. So although it was stressful getting there, the lady had waited and we had a good time. I'm not coordinated but it was fun as it was just one other lady, and Melanie, Jenny, Megan, Carly, Sarah, and I.

We did lots of other fun stuff, and even went to a football game. Football really is big in Texas. There were more people there and the stadium was bigger then some college games I've been to. Wow. It was really fun. I was a bit onry on our way there but once I got a couple of brats in at the "tailgate" party the evening looked up considerably.

Monday morning I joined Jenny for some belly dancing again. I was sore in wierd places for a couple of days later.

Before it was time for me to go I got to help a little at the nativity display thingy that Jenny's stake does. Its a huge undertaking and is very impressive! (This is Jenny's honkin big tree- I'm standing up on a table to reach the top branches)

So I wanted to again say thanks to Jenny and Tom and the kids for letting me come and hang out.

I was not too happy to be back to the cold and to work. It didn't help that I picked up a cold somewhere, but I'm mostly better now. I still need to blog about my lasik and some other things since then, but we'll see.