There's no place like HOME: Thanksgiving 2009

Funny and cute things the kids say ...

Tim had 2 tickets for the Warriors game Friday night. So one boy got to go to the game with him while the other would get to go to Lincoln Lopez's house to play. We let the boys choose. First they both wanted to go to Lincoln's house! Then they decided that Miles would go to the game with Tim and Caden would go to Lincoln's. Caden said the prayer that night. He said "Thank you dad can go to work, thank you that Miles can go to school, and thank you that I can go to Lincoln's house." We were all busting up laughing during the prayer.
-November 15, 2007

Miles was at a high school football game with Tim. One of the players had tattoos on both of his arms. Miles thought that was cool (oh great!) and told Tim that he wanted a tattoo. Tim asked him what kind of tattoo he would want and Miles replied with "SpongeBob."
-November 9, 2007

Miles: "Caden Doll is my arch enemy!"
-October 31, 2007

Tonight for dinner I made turkey broccoli casserole with rice. The boys always say that I make gross dinners, but tonight Miles added that "This dinner is worse than school lunch."
-October 22, 2007

Tim took the boys to another football game friday night. This time it was the Concord Minutemen vs. the Dublin Gaels. So this time, Caden thought the "Minimen" were playing against the "Girls."
-October 19, 2007

Last Friday, Tim took the boys to the high school football game that he was covering for the newspaper. The teams playing were the Northgate Broncos vs. the Concord Minutemen. They got to stand on the sidelines and watch the game. Caden thought it was really cool. The next day I was asking Caden about the game. I asked him if he remembered what teams played. He said, "the Boncos and the Minimen!"
-September 29, 2007

Caden is learning to count. He can count to 29 with a little help (but he somehow manages to skip 16 everytime). He gets to 29 and says twenty-ten, For 30. And does the same for the rest of the numbers.
Thirty-Ten = 40
Fourty-Ten = 50
Fifty-Ten = 60
and so on.
-September 2007

Tim and I went out with some friends on their boats. The boys went to the babysitter's house. After we picked them up we were telling them about how Tim got flipped around on all the different tubes. Miles said "So dad, there was 2 people on the tube ... you and your KIDNEY STONE!!"
-August 11, 2007

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Thanksgiving 2009

We surprised my family and drove out for Thanksgiving. We let Parker in on the secret after we were on the road. It was a surprise because we were already going to Utah for Christmas. We survived the long drive and arrived in Utah about 2:30 am Sunday night/Monday morning.

When we got to Utah there was snow on the ground, so the boys enjoyed it for a few days before it melted.
We spent Thanksgiving day at my Aunt Jody and Uncle Bill's house, with our usual Thanksgiving food. I got to see most of my Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and my cousins kids on my Dad's side. I only get to see them once or twice a year. It's always good to see family that I grew up with. Miles and Caden had a great time playing with their cousins. There are boys that are close to their age, so we didn't see them much - they were all running around.

We have a tradition of taking the baby's picture by the pecan pie. We tried it last year and Avery was crying in every picture. So this year turned out better. I also made this pie from scratch -- even the crust!
Sitting at the big kids table!
Miles' Turkey day hair-do: He hadn't had a haircut since August. The longest it has ever been.
My dad, My bro-in-law Bryan and Tim: For some reason I didn't take many pictures that day!

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The next day Tim and I went shopping on Black Friday in American Fork. I was excited because #1 Tim was coming with me. and #2 any presents that we bought could be left at my parents, and not hauled back home. We left at 1:15 am and stood in line for Old Navy. There was a promotion if you bought $20 worth of merchandise you would get Lego Rock Band for free. But they were also passing out wristbands. They ran out of wristbands about 10 people in front of us. So we left. (After standing in the cold for an hour and a half.)

Then we drove over to Kohls. We knew what we were going to get. So I gave Tim his coupons and his list of items to purchase. We stood in the cold for about 20 minutes and then literally ran into the store. Success!! Tim was faster than me and didn't have to stand in line for very long. I stood in line for about 20 minutes. But the things you will do for a $30 microwave!

We were going to get a DS lite for Caden but we went to 2 different stores after Kohls and they were both sold out at 5 am. We did buy a few other items at Wal-Mart. But the lines were insane!! We stood in one line for at least 20 minutes and didn't move. Tim was getting tired so he went and sat in the car. I decided to be brave and try another line, I was able get out of there after another 30 mins or so. We got back at my parents house about 7:30 or so. It all started to blur together....

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That night Suzi, Jeff, Melinda, Dylan, Alyssa, Jana and Anthony came to my parents house to hang out. We pulled out my Mom's Beatles Rock Band Set that I secretly helped her buy. BTW - Jeff is the BEST Rock Band Drummer I have ever seen play.

Alyssa singing and being cute:
Dylan being grumpy:
Jana about 3 weeks before Zoe was born.

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When we got to Utah we realized that the BYU/Utah football game was on Saturday. Tim told my mom that was going to get tickets for the game -- and for FREE. My mom didn't believe that he could pull it off. Tim sent out some text messages to some friends. The next day he had scored 4 free tickets to the game thanks to his brother Jeff and APX. So Tim and the boys went to the game and met up with Suzi, Jana and Anthony. GO COUGARS! (Now Miles says that he wants to go to BYU after going to the game. (YAY!)