Thanskgiving in Hurricane

Great Grandpa Blad and girl friend  cracking pecans for the salad and yams.

Mom making name tags for seats and pilgram hats for the kids. None of the boys wanted them.

I was showing the dead turkey to the boys. Jackson was very curious.

This year we decided to spend the whole Thanksgiving week in Hurricane. The kids had a full week off of school so we headed out. The drive was going smooth until we hit 20 miles North of Beaver and the road closed. We were backed up for miles. We made due and were doing just fine watching a movie on the I pad. I busted out ham crackers and cheese for dinner. After the movie the kids were getting restless and we started to move going only 35 miles an hour. Jackson told us he wasn't feeling good and we were getting frustrated with the kids and just told him to settle down back there. He vomited a few minutes later. We were stuck on the highway with only a few babywipes to clean up. I did my best then a few more miles he vomited again. It took us two hours to go 20 miles when the road finally opened 2 hrs later. After vomiting a third time to the side of the walmart sack we gave him which ran down the seat right under Andrew's bottom, we had just had it. I could only think to myself that I was glad I was not a pioneer and Jackson was dying of some disease and we were walking in this snow 20 miles with frozen toes. I am so thankfull for healthy children and for a home and cars to get us to see family.

McCall's Thanksgiving Feast

McCall's preschool group had a Thanksgiving Feast at our house the week that I taught. Parents came that last 15 minutes to share the feast with us. We had fruit snacks, grapes, carrots, and cheese squares.

Grangeville For Thanksgiving!

We had a good time in Grangeville and eat and eat all the traditional foods along with our families traditional hominy casserole. We watched movies out in their half court basketball gym and danced and played a little ball.

The kids were brave going without their jackets for another picture.
Is this my twin or what? The kids love their cousin Kylie!

Grandma wants to update her wall will current family pictures so we came prepaired to have a family photo session! It when pretty smoothly. A little cold but we survived.

One our way home from Grangeville we stopped off in McCall and found our Christmas tree with the Cazier family.

McCall didn't have much luck walking around in that snow outfit!

Andrew decided he wanted a tiny tree for his room and they found a perfect one crowding two smaller ones.

Annual Thanksgiving Feast with Bledsoe's and Gerratt's

6th Annual Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner with dear friends!

We had a wonderful evening with delicious food. Everyone brought their specialties. The Gerrett's always bring the best turkey! Rebecca cooks up the best yams ever!! We love this holiday tradition with these two beautiful growing families! Look at all the kids now!
Sommers, Brook, and Rebecca with our babies (Shaydon, McCall and Tian). Mine is not much of a baby anymore!
The adult boys are hard at work cleaning the playroom. We left the kids to play and enjoyed our meal and when we took a peak in the playroom....every toy that I think we own was out and all the puzzles were out of the boxes and all the games and their pieces! Ya, the kids I think had a blast! The boys were so helpful and jumped right in trying to piece everything back together. It was cute to see them on their hands and knees cleaning!
Thanks, Boys!
Thank you Gerrett's and Bledsoe's for another wonderful evening together catching up and eating great food! We love you and your little ones.