Thanksgiving 2010

I'm already thinking one of my New Year's Resolutions will be to update my blog a little more often! I'm really behind and it's definitely not for lack of being busy.

We had a VERY full house for Thanksgiving this year! Rob's parents and grandma drove up from Arizona, Uncle Tysen came with his girlfriend Jen and one of her daughter's Bree, Uncle Kory and Uncle Trent drove in from Utah/Idaho, and Uncle Kevin also came from Utah. In addition, Grandpa Snow White and Grandma Debbie were with us for half the time (and the other half in nearby Castle Rock with Debbie's daughter's family). Thank goodness our house is twice the size as the one in Arizona but it was still tight quarters! Lots of fun though. I didn't take as many pictures as I probably should have - I guess that thought was lost in some of the chaos. :)

On Wednesday we headed out with those who had arrived and went to the Olympic Training Facility that is in Colorado Springs. It was freezing cold but I love anything and everything about the Olympics and it was interesting to hear about all the training that they do and the athletes lives that live at that training facility. I forgot my camera this day though so I'll have to put pictures up when I get them from Rob's mom or my brothers.

On Thursday we actually didn't do our Thanksgiving dinner - instead we just snacked a lot, watched a lot of football and prepared for the next day. Eliza went with Grandma Bodine to see "Tangled" that night and Rob went with his dad to see a movie. The rest of us stayed at home and played games.

Friday we had our big Thanksgiving feast. Everything turned out great and we had tons of dessert at the end. Again - forgot to take pictures!

Some of us took a trip out to Garden of the Gods to walk around. It was freezing and the parking lot was really far away but we still tried to enjoy the beauty! We finished off the day by watching more and more and more football and mixing it up with some games in between. Tysen and Bree love to play games and we were introduced to some fun new ones that we'll try out again at Christmas!


Saturday morning Rob's parents and grandma had to leave to drive home. So those that were still there went out to the Air Force Academy and took a tour. They have a beautiful chapel and we even saw some wildlife out there (deer and a giant coyote).








Sunday - the Uncles all packed up early and left for the drive home since a big storm was supposed to hit. I think Trent spent 17 hours on the road that day getting back to Idaho! I had to speak in church that day (Rob got out of it with a Missionary homecoming that the Bishop had forgotten about) and I'm very glad that is over.

Sunday night Grandma Debbie and Grandpa Snow White decided to brave decorating a gingerbread house with Eliza. She loved it although the house had some major structural problems for some reason and kept falling apart!






Monday, Grandma Debbie went back up to Castle Rock and Grandpa Snow White went shopping with the girls and helped us get prepared for the snow with a few supplies. We haven't seen any snow since the week before Thanksgiving but I think we are a little more ready now if it decides to come!

By Tuesday after Thanksgiving all of our visitors and left and I had to attempt to recover. Since that time period, we have all had the stomach flu (some of us twice!) and rounds of colds. I guess we had too much fun or something! Hoping we're healthy for a while now.