Thanksgiving!!

We drove to Utah to spend a week with family in this past week for Thanksgiving.  The day before we left my brother came up from LA for a little visit.  Here is my brother John with Matthew and Anna.

John with his girlfriend, Merry.  It was fun visiting with them.

The next day we hit the road to Utah.  Its about a 12 hour drive and the kids were not happy about that.  After 30 minutes they started asking how much longer until we got there.  Its a long way across that Nevada desert.  :(

We finally got there (late at night) and had some fun the next day playing in the leaves.  It did seem really cold to me even though it was kind of a warm Thanksgiving week in November.  BRRRR!!!

Emma made some Christmas decoration shapes for the window

One day we went to the mall in Sandy to see a Harry Potter Christmas event they had.

We had to wait a little to go in.  Here we are outside.

Inside  we got to practice quidditch and there was a little merchandise.

We got to go into Ollivander's for a little Christmas wand demonstration.  We made it snow in the shop with our magic!

We got our picture taken against a green screen.  Too bad Scott wasn't there.

We got some small pen wands there.  Grant wanted the Voldemort wand.

We took a little train ride in the mall.

Back at Grandma's the kids did lots of plays for us.

Thanksgiving Day!!

The morning of Thanksgiving Scott and I (and some others) ran a 5K.

More on that later.

We went to Scott's sister's new house for Thanksgiving dinner.  Here are Scott and two of his sisters prepping rolls for the oven.

Enjoying delicious dinner!

And pie!

The kids all had so much fun hanging out with cousins!!

Went out for BBQ all together the next day.

Girl cousins!!

Boy cousins!!

We went to temple square after that (more on that to come)

Another day the kids spent the day with cousins doing all kinds of fun things. 

At the end of the day we got ice cream.

Anna was mad 'cause the ice cream was much bigger than she thought.

Bigger than the picture.

Other kids had no complaints about that.

We had so much fun but eventually we all had to go our separate ways.  :(

Sad.  Thankful for family and all our Thanksgiving fun and togetherness!