Glen bought us season tickets once again this year for BYU basketball home games, so we go to Provo for as many games as is possible for us to attend.
Carrie has swayed far away from her original country singing style and is way more rock than country these days. 
We loved when she came down to our end of the arena and sang a few slower, gospel-type songs. 
I stopped taking photos of what people brought when I noticed Glen carving up our turkey while trying to listen to and watch a ball game on his iPad. That's what is called multi-tasking!
Natalie was able to spend a week with her family in Nebraska the week of Thanksgiving.
It is so much easier to appreciate her beautiful voice when she sings those kinds of songs.
She flew down to our end on a swing and went back to the main stage in this contraption. It was a fun experience, but pretty sure we will not be attending any more of her concerts in the future.
We had several dinner dates--one with Glen's sisters and their husbands.
Barbara always gives us two tins of Chex party mix at Christmas time. She used to give one, but when I ate most of it one year, she has now decided to give us two so we can each have our own.
She is protecting her brother's rights to his own portion of the treat. Yay for Barbara!!
We had a lunch date with our missionary Nate Anderson and his wife Alexis.
We also treated Sylvia Nieto and Garrett Sanders--both of our missionaries who married each other--to lunch at Zupas.
Sarah surprised us by saying they were coming to town the few days before Thanksgiving. Time to pull out the French toast-making skills for the grandsons.
The boys hardly had enough time to play with their cousins while they were here because their cousins were still in school.
Sarah's family left here on Thanksgiving Day morning to go to Cedar City to spend the rest of the week with Jeff's family.
Jeff and Sarah had a very successful trip. They were able to put an offer down on a new home in Kaysville just east of Highway 89. They had gotten an offer on their home in Vegas, which was a relief for them so they have funds for purchasing a new home.
After bidding the Excells good-bye, we welcomed my parents, my siblings and their families, and Rebecca's family for Thanksgiving Dinner.
Sam brought a perfectly-golden-brown turkey.
Kaelyn brought a beautiful green salad.
Mom brought her delicious homemade stuffing and also Texas sheet cake brownies which is a very popular treat with the young people.
Presenting our delicious Thanksgiving spread. YUM!!
We had a very quiet household that day despite 30 people being here. We were missing Andy's whole family who were celebrating the holiday with Amanda's side of the family.
We were missing two of Mike's children who have young children. Kaelyn's youngest two were sick and were at home with Dennis.
We were also missing Ben's family because Kade was sick. At least Ben and Haley were able to come up to get themselves plates of food while they alternated sitting in the car with the little ones.
Unfortunately, Ben has gotten sick and has been feeling very miserable the last few days. Fingers crossed that the rest of us don't get it!!
We had no babies attending this year. These are the youngest of our group who were very entertained with Bryce's video games he hooked up to our TV.
It was fun to see photos of Jacob's family. Natalie was in town, so they took advantage of it to get family photos taken. I was thinking they must be at Cabela's, but Jacob said they were at a similar-type store, Bass Pro Shop. So funny. So cute.
Jacob's family helped deliver meals to people for the Salvation Army. What a great service they were offering.
The day after Thanksgiving I got busy changing out the decorations from Thanksgiving to Christmas. Glen never likes to put up the Christmas tree and every year says we are not going to have a tree, which he declared again this year.
I would have been willing to forego the tree this year because we will be gone most of the days leading up to Christmas. But, I reminded him the Excell family would be staying with us over Christmas while they are in between moves. Surely the little boys need a Christmas tree.
Later in the day, I saw this trail of lights and was actually surprised Glen had carried up the tree and had started stringing the lights.
He said he was doing it for the grandsons. Ahhh, so he's not such a Scrooge after all!!
Funny thing is we just barely learned that Jeff and Sarah might be able to move into their new home a day or two before Christmas. HA!!
Rebecca's family came up later that day to watch the Disney movie, "Disenchanted." They helped put the ornaments on the Christmas tree before starting the movie.
Well, the time is upon us.
We have been planning this vacation for a year and a half now and we leave in two days for Hawaii with my siblings and their spouses.
I am excited like the rest of them to go on this vacation, but unlike the rest of them--I am worried about all that sun on my skin after the horrible time I had on our vacation to Spain.
So if I am posting photos of me from our vacation that look like this, don't be surprised.
The other members of the family will probably not be in the photos because they will likely be too embarrassed to claim me as one of their own.
Bon voyage!!
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Offended you didn't get a picture of me and the sweet potatoes that *cough* "I" *cough* made for Thanksgiving.
Have fun on your Hawaii trip!
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