Thanksgiving

 

Thanksgiving was so much fun!  Marcus and Ethan flew home and it was so good being all together again.  We ate a Thanksgivng lunch/feast after the boys finished playing in the Turkey Bowl.  I'm pretty sure my boys favorite day of the whole year is Thanksgiving because they get to play football.

It must be mentioned that the turkey was delicious even though I had to quickly fall back on Plan B after I woke up at 7am to turn on the smoker and discovered my neighbor was already smoking her bird! I had no idea that was her plan! I ended up baking my turkey the old fashioned way in my oven and all was well. 

While I slaved away in the kitchen, Randy packed up all the ski gear for a family of seven and packed our car to the gills for our drive to Whistler. The boys cleaned the kitchen without their shirts on because apparently that’s the way we roll 😂

Traffic was a nightmare and took an extra 90 minutes but we made it, along with several Thanksgiving pies, all in one piece. 

I skied by myself for quite awhile. It was peaceful. But so is reading a book. I prefer reading!

No-shave November resulted in Marcus’s epic mustache. Thankfully it was temporary. 

Ice cream with our friends 

Henry spent one day in ski school and can now conquer the lifts and all the green runs independently. We had a few other families hang out with us this year so we all had plenty of people to ski with and we hosted a big game/pie night in our hotel room. Even though we were all exhausted and would’ve liked going to bed instead. But hey, the teens loved it!

We skied a lot, hot tubbed and swam a lot, and walked through Whistler Village a lot. The exchange great is awesome right now so we did more shopping than planned and now I’m the proud owner of new ski gear! And it’s life changing! And cute! Maybe I’ll like skiing after all. 

Let’s not forget eating dinner on Thanksgiving day at McDonald’s. My boys were thrilled and considered this their real “feast”. I ordered nothing and at some of their fries 

Leg wrestling. Marcus is undefeated. 

Loading up all the gear is always the worst. 

We found this tiny branch to attend sacrament meeting in Squamish. There were 8 people there besides our family so we almost doubled their numbers. Bless these faithful Saints for being so welcoming. 

Ordering their McDonald’s feast

We had a great trip but paid the price for doing a trip with December Leigh’s around the corner. I was basically a week behind all month. But I think the trip was worth it  maybe.