We decided this year that we would go to California to spend Thanksgiving with my family, since in the almost 10 years that we’ve been married, we’ve never once spent Thanksgiving with my family. We’ve always spent Thanksgiving with Kyle’s family. Even that first Thanksgiving after we got married, we drove to Utah to spend the holiday with Kyle’s family since that was Kyle’s dad’s last Thanksgiving before he passed away. So we decided early this year that we were going to California for Thanksgiving.
The Thanksgiving holiday was great this year. I didn’t have to cook anything. There were tons of other people around to play with my kids. Jenny, Wendy and I went over to our old middle school, YLMS, and Jenny and I went for a run on the track while Wendy pretended to read the RS lesson for that weekend. She was actually taking pictures of us as we came around the track.
Dad got See’s chocolate turkeys for everyone, as is tradition:
The meal itself was nice. Mom made the turkey and a few pumpkin pies. There were mashed potatoes, and egg noodles. Tom and Jenny brought some stuffing, and some pies. I honestly don’t remember all the food that there was, but it was nice. 🙂
I guess one of the pies that Jenny and Tom made got damaged somehow, so when they were on their way over they were ok with Tommy taking bits of it and eating it. Well this must have sent Tommy the wrong message because after dinner we found Tommy propped on the floor in the tv room watching some of the other kids play a video game, with a pie and a spoon in front of him:
Of course the pie he had was NOT the one that had been originally damaged…. He took a perfectly good pie and just started digging into it. This is what it looked like when we took it away and switched it for the damaged pie:
Ya, so he started on this pie, then someone rescued it by giving him the damaged pie, which he completely finished off by himself! So that’s what Thanksgiving is like at my parents house! 😉