London Bday Part II/Thanksgiving

Last week we had some friends over for dinner on London's birthday. London had a pool party with just girls but wanted Max to be able to come over for something. So they came over for dinner and cake. It was really nice time. Noah follows Max around like a puppy and Max is very patient.

We had a nice Thanksgiving. Just our family. It started a bit early on Wednesday. Our neighbors invited us to go cut down a Christmas tree with them. The kids had the day off and I was able to leave early so we all met at the diveshop at noon. Tee and the kids went with them last year to a forest about 1/2 hour south of Evanston, Wyoming. (About 2 hours away.) There was a lot more snow there last year but it sure was cold. We wandered about the woods for an hour or 2 and found the trees we needed. We decided to head home south past Mirror Lake. This road is closed in the winter but since we haven't had any snow this year we could drive through. On paper it takes about 50 miles off the trip but since they are back roads I don't think it made a difference. The thermometer on the car said it was 8* out after the sun went down. There was a moon out so it was a very pretty drive as the sun was going down. The mountains near Mirror Lake were very pretty. We stopped in Kamas for some dinner. Now Kamas has maybe 1 stop sign and 3 restaurants. The first one had a 1/2 hour wait so we went across the street to a Mexican place. 2 4-person groups were there. Then we show up 13 strong (6 adults and 7 kids), then like 4 more groups show up. This is with 1 waitress and 1 cook!! The waitress is flying around the tables on the phone trying to get some more help. 7pm on a Wednesday in Kamas, who knew? She actually did a pretty good job. The food was so-so but it was a fun afternoon.

Thanksgiving morning-the kids want to watch the parade, Tee is getting food going and I slip across the street to the park for a little Turkey Bowl football. The guys in the ward/neighborhood play a few times a year and every Thanksgiving. It is a great tradition. We had almost 30 guys there playing in 2 games. It was much better then last year. Last year we had a few guys (I don't even know who they were) taking the game a bit too seriously. I love it when you have the guys showing up in their Under Armour gear with cleats and gloves. My other favorite is QB guy. He's the one who wants to diagram every play, yells because they rush too soon and consistently under throws the deep ball. Luckily we didn't have 1 in our game. It was a blast. Pretty much everyone knew each other and it was a lot of fun. Yes I did catch a TD pass but then I let one go through my arms and that was it. I wasn't thrown to again. After a few hours of reliving high school greatness, I went home and we headed off to see a movie. This is another tradition, the 11am movie on Thanksgiving morning. We saw "Enchanted." It was cute. Animated, Fairy tale characters come to present day New York and turn into real people. It was a slightly more upscale "Shrek", tweaking the fairy tale story and making a little fun of it. There was one scene in the animated beginning when the prince was chasing a large, green monster. I thought for certain they were setting up a Shrek reference but they called him a troll instead of an orge so maybe it was just a subtle jab. After the movie it was turkey time. After that it was nap on the couch time. After that it was watch "Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving" time. A very nice holiday was had by all.