Thanksgiving 2016

Thanksgiving day started off with the boys going off to play football! My boys look forward to playing football on Thanksgiving all year long!  They loved it!

The girls and Brigham stayed home and watched the Macey's Thanksgiving Day Parade (one of Grandma Nelson's favorite traditions) and spent time having Briggy snuggles.

  We then headed off to the church where our extended family had their Thanksgiving Day feast.  The food was wonderful and the company even better.

 After dinner, we spent the time playing games

 jumping rope

 playing pickle ball

 and just spending time with our family.

It was a wonderful day to spend time with those we love and reflect on the many things that we have been blessed with!

Gingerbread House Extravaganza

One of the things we like to do during the holiday season is to decorate gingerbread houses with our family. 

 We usually divide up into teams and let the creativity begin! I was able to help Ben. 

McCall and Grandma helped supervise. 

Lucy and Millie worked hard together and so did Emmy and Tracy. 

 Hyrum was really proud of his Y he drew on his house to represent that he is a cougar fan!

Emmy decorated an adorable Santa.

Brandon was in charge of sweet baby Briggy and he also helped Hyrum. 

The gingerbread houses turned out fantastic!

Fun in Utah

For Thanksgiving 2016 we went to Utah and had a wonderful time! Brigham was able to meet lots of new people.

Of course my dad made Papa Pancakes.

We absolutely loved going to Grandma and Grandpa Chocolate's house and playing with all our cousins. It was there that Brigham was able to meet his great grandma and grandpa for the first time.

Ben was thrilled when Grandma Chocolate gave him a Lemon Meringue Pie that she made by hand.  He loved it!

We had lots of great snuggle parties.

We had fun playing games!

We enjoyed playing with McCall and Brigham!

We loved playing Mafia as a family.  Brigham also met his Aunt Millie and Uncle Court for the first time.

It was such a fun trip that went by too quick!