We had a really nice week. Emily flew in on Tuesday night.
She and I had fun watching the Taylor Swift Dancing with the Stars night. The
boys had early release on Wednesday. I was pretty proud of myself for getting
the sweet potatoes done on Tuesday. I had Jonny help me make the cranberry
sauce when he got home that day. Andrew helped me with the crab dip on
Wednesday. When everybody got home from school on Wednesday, we went to lunch
at Costa Vida, but first we went to Sam's Club and chose two children from the Angel
tree. Then we went home and finished getting ready and went to see the movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. I really enjoyed it. I had just finished
reading the book. It was pretty true to the book but quite a few details have
been changed.
Thanksgiving Day was long but it was nice. The only thing that
went wrong with the meal is that I tried to boil the yellow potatoes whole and
they turned into a big gummy mess. I was trying a different way to peel them
and it definitely didn't work. Oh well. I'll know better for next year. The
turkey and ribs that Betsy and Geoff brought were amazing. They were all cooked
in the pit and the turkey was so moist. I made a double batch of stuffing but
that was way too much. And hardly anybody ate my sweet potatoes this year. I had
everybody say what they were grateful for as we went around the table. Rich was
very nice and glad to be there to meet all of us. It was a nice meal. Afterwards, we cleaned up and had a
picture.
Then we had dessert and played a few games. We played Herd Mentality
and then Taboo. Steve won the first round of Herd Mentality and then Michael won
the second. It was funny because on the second round of Herd Mentality
Michael and I were tied and they had that we have a question again about who is
the best dressed and this time I said Steve but Michael said me and that ended
up being the majority answer so he won and everybody had a good laugh about it.
For Taboo, Emily and I were on the same team so we were pretty much unbeatable.
We also had Daniel and Rich and Geoff against everybody else. Even little
Aaron joined in for a little while. Cody and Andrew didn't play. They went out
to the park to play some football. After the games, the Akers and Steve all left. We played a couple games of Jackbox. Emily and I wanted to watch some of our TV shows and Erin and Rich watched with us for a little while and then left.
On Friday we started at about 11 AM to set up for Christmas and it took us a little over an hour. Michael and Andrew handled everything outside
and the rest of us worked inside and got the tree up. Emily did the railing. Johnny did the little tinsel trees and Daniel helped
put up some other things. I'm always so relieved when we get that done.
Emily spent the afternoon with Kayla. That night, Andrew went to the game.
On Saturday, we read the Come, Follow Me
lesson and then I gave the kids a finance lesson on budgeting, banking, and insurance. Michael had a lot to say and I hadn't planned on that so I ended up
taking quite a while but it was nice to have his input. We had to quickly get
ready to make it to my reservation for lunch at Hash Kitchen. As soon as we
drove up we could tell we wouldn't want to stay there because the music was so
loud. I put in our name for Texas Roadhouse so we went there instead and we
didn't have to wait very long at all. It was nice because we were done
with our lunch pretty quickly and made it home in time for the football game at
1:30 PM. Michael and Andrew were happy about that. Emily worked on some
homework and I did some chores on the computer while the boys played on their media.
Emily's flight was this morning at 11:10 AM. Apparently it was delayed
by about 45 minutes but she made it to Provo and Nathaniel picked her up and
they went over to the Eldredge's. We had a good day at church.
It was a wonderful week! Happy Thanksgiving!
