Thanksgiving and Christine's Birthday weekend

We had a wonderful weekend!  Nathaniel and Emily flew in on Wednesday afternoon.  We had purchased the plane tickets before Nathaniel and Audrey got engaged, so she didn't join them.  She will be visiting during Christmas break, though.

Their flight was late and we had planned to go to a late lunch, but it was a very late lunch, at one of our favorite buffets.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family from my side and Michael's side, as usual.

Here is Daniel learning to carve the turkey.

Emily did a wonderful job setting the table.  The boys also helped.

The whole gang

All of the newspapers were sold out that morning, so I wasn't able to look through all the ads.  Instead, we watched Free Guy together after everyone left so it was a nice, relaxing evening.

We celebrated my birthday on Friday.  Michael ordered this custom cake for me and it was beautiful and delicious!

We went out to lunch to Firebirds Woodfired Grill.  We had to laugh when Jonny said the bread looks like a butt, lol.

Nathaniel flew back on Saturday morning.  Emily and the boys went to see Eternals and do a little shopping in the afternoon.  Then I met them for lunch at Panera.  We came home and put up the Christmas tree and did some decorating around the house.  Michael and Andrew put my snowman and tree up in the front yard the day before.  That evening, Michael and I went to an open house and then Michael and Andrew watched the BYU vs. USC game.  BYU won, thankfully.

Emily flew home this morning and we had a nice day going to church and relaxing.  I feel so blessed!