Thanksgiving in Utah

For Thanksgiving this year we made the trek back to Utah since we haven't been there in a year and a half. Let me just say that the extra two hours we gained moving from Reno su-ucks!  Fortunately our kids are troopers and still did great. A few minor delays (like the dog pee-ing on me at the kennel, two new front tires, a fill-up and lunch on the road before we even left town) didn't help our situation.  But we made it unscathed (at 2:30 am) and had a fabulous time.

 Connor was such a good sport letting all the younger boys tackle him. Huddy was his special helper. I think Connor's giving him the play here.

 The other team: Nate, Bryson, Caleb

 Hudson has mad tackle skills....because he's my little spider monkey.

 "Oh my gosh Mom, did you see the dog? I love her!"  (Its funnier if you do the gomer voice)

 "Hey this trampoline is pretty cool"

 We might need to move to Utah so Bryson can run and tackle with all his boy cousins every day, all day. He doesn't have any boy cousins here he can do that with. He had the best time ever. I rarely saw him. All the boys got along fabulously.

 I think Hudson was trying to make him fly. Stetson actually had a blast.

 See? He's hysterical! He probably peed himself he was having so much fun. 

This is my happy thought!

 "This is the Best. Day. EVER!!!"

 Death.....   they all left him there..... with no one to bounce him.....

 Oh look the girls made Tanner their base again.... BIG surprise!

 Heidi made some delicious dips. I don't remember what they were because we ate them too fast.

I just know that I barely had any dinner because I was too full.

 Wha? We didn't say prayer yet?

The girls also ate here but I rarely saw any of them either.

And I can't believe I didn't get anymore pictures, especially of the things the kids were most excited about going to Utah for---Puppies and hot tubs!  Heidi's dog just had another litter of 10 adorable golden labs. They were just opening their eyes when we got there. The kids were in heaven!!! Especially Huddy. He would grab one, go hold it for a few minutes until is was sufficiently freaked out, trade it for another one, freak that one out, trade again, etc.  He was loving it. Then at Rick and Debi's they got to go hot-tubbing a million times a day and they took full advantage of that. I should have taken a picture of what our room looked like with towels all over the floor, but I didn't. 

Brynn's news report of the week read:

Last week I went to Utah and visted my three aunts and uncles. My aunt Hiddy has puppys and evryday I go to her hose I get to hold a puppy. They are so cut and I love to hold them and my uther aunt has a hot tub and I go in it evryday I am there.

They were also super looking forward to Rick's donut run, which he didn't disappoint with, "the Dip", visiting our friends the Smiths, and seeing all their cousins. One night we left the kiddos home and my three siblings and I and our spouses went to sushi together. Lotta fun! Really loud (us, I mean), lots of laughing, good food. We don't get to do that enough. We've got two more trips out there planned for the next little while and hopefully the weather will allow it.