Turkey Ball

The men, boys and Kyren headed out to our backyard for some Thanksgiving football. They even had a few cheerleaders on the side. Other than Jason throwing out his back, good times were had by all !

Other good times...

I didn't take any pictures of a lot of other good times like our visit to the Squeeze Inn (featured on "Diner's, Drive-ins and Dives") and many hours of games, cards, talking and laughing! We also went to the family night at Round Table pizza and there was a lady doing face-painting/arm painting. I didn't take any pictures that night but Jordan insisted I take a picture of his arm before he took a shower. Notice it says "mom"!

The kids listened intently as Granddpa gave the FHE lesson on Monday and then we all headed out to Brain Freeze for some frozen yogurt. Because you put your own toppings on, I think some of the kids had more candy than yogurt!

Science Museum on Tuesday

Picnic at the Park

One day last week, we were getting ready to feed the kids lunch and decided to run over to a neighborhood park, when Brady insisted on going to this park he had been to with my sister. We were pleasantly surprised, it was such a cool park and also a fun place to take pictures!

hanging with the Tollisons

The kids spent a lot of time playing with the Eden's dress-ups, especially my childhood dance recital costumes. When Kyren found all the pieces to this blue outfit she showed us her moves and Eden and Tucker had fun dancing with her...until Eden noticed one of her brothers DS lying around!

And Aurora showed us her Shirley Temple performance!

We also discovered that Tucker really loves his uncles. He just plopped himself down on Jason's lap and became his buddy for the rest of the week. Soon they were having fun and Eden would not be left out!

Thanksgiving feast

Now I know these pictures aren't terribly exciting but I think Sam wanted to show the people at work just how many people and how much food it was. Each family did one, two or even more dishes so we had a ton of food. My sister and neice also joined us and brought something. It was a true feast! Even with our double ovens, Sam's parents oven and our nice neighbor that let us used their double ovens, it was a tight race to get it all done and warm at the same time, but well worth it!

35 to be exact!

These posts will be out of order but Sam requested a few pictures to show his staff and I might as well blog it if I'm downloading it! We had Sam's entire family here for Thanksgiving week except for Nicki's husband who had to work. It was often crazy, loud and chaotic when everyone was here, but we still have a lot of fun when we get together and we were glad everyone was able to get together! This week we had the 8 original children, the 2 parents at the head of this group, 5 of the 6 spouses that married into this family, 20 grandkids that have all been born into it in the last 10 years and 3 more still in their mom's tummies! You can see how it would be a bit crazy!