Thanksgiving

My parents were here for Thanksgiving so we went down to their house on Wednesday night and spent 2 nights there for the holiday.

Stuffing the turkey

We made two turkeys this year: one roasted and one rotisserie. They were both awesome

Claire helping Grandpa make pies

Mounting the rotisserie turkey, which was much more difficult then if looks

Jessica helped me make turkey cake balls which turned out so cute

The spread

 After an awesome dinner we all headed to the movie theatre for the Muppets Movie. Due to the hour, the girls slept through most of it although I thought it was very cute. After the movie we headed back to the house for pie.

I decided that the best part of Thanksgiving is cooking the meal with my family. We had an amazing time with everyone and thoroughly enjoyed Black Friday shopping with my mom as well.

Museum of Ancient Life

My parents are in town for about a week for my cousin's wedding and Thanksgiving. On Friday my mom took the girls to the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point. There are lots of interactive exhibits and tons for the kids to do. My girls are really into dinosaurs right now and had the best time.

Halloween Fun

We did WAY too much Halloween this year. It's hard when all the places you have memberships to fun things you don't want to miss out on. On Saturday we went to Boo at the Zoo which is always fun.

with the Got Milk? cow

 After the zoo we headed over for Marc's cousin's baby's first birthday party.  We had a fun time with Marc's family and everything would have been great if we didn't get a flat tire. So Marc had to change the tire and take to to the tire shop to get fixed since we didn't want to drive 100 miles on a donut.

Claire and Alice "helping" with the presents

The night ended with the ward trunk-or-treat (which we miraculously on time to). They always have a soup dinner with a carnival put on by the youth in the ward.

It was an incredibly long day but was lots of fun. 

On Monday the girls went trick-or-treating with Melanie and Ryan and we now have more candy than we know what to do with and unless I want to wear bigger pants I will be giving most of it away. Next year we will probably pick only one or two Halloween things to participate in.