Thanksgiving 2008

Okay, okay, I am finally ready to catch up on old blog posts, so here we go with Thanksgiving.

We had a great Thanksgiving. Andrew and I both had a couple of days off so we decided to go up to Rocklin to visit our friends, Cory and Jessica. They were great to invite us up there to crash their holiday! It was a nice relaxing week.

We drove up there on Wednesday afternoon. On the drive we were able to see the burned areas from the bad fires that we had here a few months ago. I took this picture to show the burned areas, but you can also see the horrible traffic that we were in.

The fires were pretty devastating. We drove past a trailor park that had been completely destroyed. All that was left was shells of burned cars. Very sad.

Thursday morning (Thanksgiving) Andrew and Cory got up extra early to do what? Play football of course! Cory's ward was having a big Turkey bowl football game. Jessica and I stopped by for a little while to cheer them on. Andrew came home with a ripped shirt and a bloody hand, so I guess it was a success.

Brady definitely wanted to join in the game.

Jessica spent a lot of time making a delicious Thanksgiving dinner. We had all of the traditional food and it was absolutely delicious. Jessica is an amazing cook! Here she is carving the turkey.

What's better than Thanksgiving dinner with friends?

So good!

The rest of the weekend we had a lot of fun hanging out, going shopping, golfing and playing x-box. We missed spending the holiday with our families, but we were so thankful that Cory, Jessica and Brady invited us to spend it with them. They were a great "replacement family."

One of the highlights of the week was definitely when Cory went and bought his big screen tv. He has been researching tv's for a couple years and he finally decided on the one to get. He got up early on Black Friday and he and Cory went to Costco and picked it up. I think Andrew looks a lot more excited than Cory does. (But that probably says something more about how happy they were to be taking a picture than it does about the tv.) We were very excited for them and their great new TV.

We were sad when it was time to go, but we had a lot of help carrying our bags from Brady.

He even helped us put them in the car.

It was a great Thanksgiving. Even though we should always be thinking about everything we are grateful for, it's nice to have one day that is completely set aside for it. We have so much to be grateful for in our lives. Happy Thanksgiving!!