Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was spent out of Colorado

in Arizona.  It was a LONG drive.  I was even so bored that I took reflection pictures of us in the semis.

We spent the holiday with this guy’s family.

We swam every minute we could in Lael’s pool.  As usual, it couldn’t be a normal swim, but instead always trying to invent ways to get hurt.

It almost appeared that there was a boat in the pool.

Lael is such a cute aunt and had all the girls over for a sleepover.  They had favorite treats, a movie, swimming, and games.  It’s no wonder that my kids adore her!

Dinner was hosted by Janie and Andrew.

It was a HOT day that day!  I’m glad that we ate in the evening.  The top food that everyone raved about was the rainbow jello salad.

We had a cornhole tournament afterward.  I wish that I would have taken a picture after everyone had signed up to get all of the teams.  Jerrica and Stephen were the champions and won the giant candy bars.

It was dark by the time we finished.  I am amazed at how competitive a simple little game can be.

One morning we headed to the park for crazy kick ball.  Grandpa Don in his 70’s actually slid into home base on one of the final plays of the game!

My favorite part of the game was kicking it over Stephen’s head in the outfield.

They had this climbing structure at the park.  You look at these next pictures and you don’t think anything because I was zooming in.  BUT I was FREAKING out at Ashley and stopped taking pictures of her because she was standing at the top holding on to the sides LEANING forward.  I was DYING!

The climbing thing is HUGE!  That’s why even big kids and grown up climb it.  It was taller that the palm trees.  Here below in the middle is Jacob at the top and then Kaylee is in the right side at the top.

Ashley could have killed herself.  I don’t get how other’s don’t fall and get hurt!

My safety boy Nathan didn’t want to chance it and headed to the splash part with Austin.

The boys had late nights of Settler’s of Cattan.

We went to a ghost town.

The little ones picked gold bits from mud as the older ones shared Youtube videos.

It was a quick trip but so great to see family!