Thanksgiving 2009

We had a fun Thanksgiving weekend. We drove up to Boise, stayed in a HOTEL (the kids were besides themselves with excitement!), and thoroughly enjoyed ourselves. There was lots of family, fun, food, shopping, and football. What more can you ask for? What a way to kick off the holiday season! :)

Em and Randon

Preston Francis Burton. I can't believe that Bekah and Preston are both 2 years old! It seems odd to me for some reason. :)

Randon's baby brother, David, drove up to Boise from BYU for the holiday as well. He is so much like Randon (which is a good thing, of course)!

We were able to see our friend, Charisse, a couple of times.

On the night before Thanksgiving, Em and I worked with the kids to make all the pumpkin pies.

Joshy, Karl, and I are workin' hard!

My cute girls in their aprons (and weird me, haha)

Aunt Emily with my guy!

Nana just LOVES those baby-types! Here she is lovin' on Ella

The next morning, Hannah helped Nana with a bunch of the Thanksgiving Day cooking. Here she is working on the stuffing.

What a great cook!

Lizzie and I were in charge of setting the tables.

Bekah and Papa

Mama working

I don't have any pictures of the food or anything, haha. I think I was focused on eating it at that point! Here is Ella enjoying her food

Bekah slept through dinner, but still seem happy :)

Karl and Caleb are cut from the same mold when it comes to electronics!

Nana got the "New Super Mario Bros" for the kids to enjoy over the weekend. They loved it (although they did fight about it quite a bit, lol. Guess it can't ever be perfect...)

I was recently trying to find shots of all my nieces and nephews and realized I have hardly any shots of Karl-Guy. I think it is because he is usually off play the wii, haha. I made a better effort this time and got this cute shot of him.

I was trying to take some pictures and Josh kept following me around saying, "Get me! Get me!" What a sweetie :)

Grandpa and Sydney

Addie is growing up so fast!

After dinner, the guys settled in to play a little Boise State football on the XBox. Looks pretty intense (not sure how that could be since I think they were playing Idaho, haha).

The ladies spent time checking out the ads for Black Friday. Donnetta, Emily, Mom, David (Randon's brother...what a trooper he was!), and I got up VERY early on Friday and had an awesome time shopping. We got everything on our lists! I think that was a first for me.

On Thanksgiving, the Richards, Sydney and Preston, and our kids went swimming at our hotel. Caleb did NOT want to swim. Here is a picture of him watching.

The hotel had this fun "little kids" pool. I think it was an awesome idea.

Bekah was a maniac! She kept watching the big kids jump into their pool so she would do it in the little one as well. Since she would land on her feet when she jumped, she would then dunk her whole head under so that it was like she had submerged herself, haha. I did actually bring a suit for her, but wasn't really intending on her getting in this night. Oh, well. :)

There was a big pool, too, of course! What a fun day. We were ready to hit the hay that night!