We have had Thanksgiving at home for the last 3 years. One was by
choice, one was because we were planning to go visit Kent's parents and couldn't go because of snow. And last year we stayed home was because both our parents were not home and we decided to stay home since we didn't really have anywhere to go. We had a fun time
doing it with just our little family but this year we really wanted to
go somewhere and not spend Thanksgiving at home alone. Since it was the "on"
year with most of Kent's siblings at his parent's house we decided to go
there. After a busy first half of November it was so nice to go on a
trip and leave our crazy world home for a few days. I brought my camera
with me but I didn't use it much. I was too lazy. My sister-in-law
Sally is a photographer and she took lots of pictures so I am hoping I
can get her to send me a couple of the wonderful chaos of Thanksgiving
dinner. There were 12 adults and 22 kids. My kids had such a fun time
visiting with their grandparents and their cousins. We don't get to see
our Idaho cousins very often so when we do it is a big deal. Also, our
Wii has been broken for almost a year and the fact that grandma and
grandpa have a Wii was a big hit too. Ian went over to my sister
Carol's house to have a sleepover with the boys and Hailey, the kids' 12
year old cousin came over to my in-law's house to have a sleepover with
the girls. We also invited another cousin, Jocelyn to sleep over. The
girls had an awesome cousin sleep-over party.
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| Kelly, Carl and Kent |
It has been a long and trying year for Carl and his wife Julie since was diagnosed with leukemia in January and spent a good part of the year in the hospital. He is in remission now and regaining strength and it was really good for Kent to be able to spend time with him, and 3 of his other 4 brothers. We haven't had a get together like that in a really long time. We had such a good time. There is just something about being together with family for Thanksgiving. We like having Christmas with our little family because our kids are big and we like to do our own traditions, but Thanksgiving just isn't the same without getting together with a big group of family. I am thankful for my own family and for the family I married into.
.JPG)
