Thanksgiving in Utah

This year we decided (somewhat last minute) to drive out to Utah for Thanksgiving and spend a week visiting with our families. It was so much fun to see everyone and catch up and we were even able to celebrate Austin's first birthday with Mike's siblings and their families. I can't believe this guy is already one year old. It has really flown by. He is so close to walking and I'm dreading it because then he will truly be into everything.

Tyler and Austin are best buds. Austin's face just lights up when he sees Tyler and Tyler is so good at making him laugh and smile.

Everyone singing happy birthday to Austin

Aunt Kimber and Austin. Thanks again Kimber for putting us up and for being my Black Friday shopping partner....... even with no sleep.

All 17 cousins

I took a pictures of all the girls and then asked the guys if I could get a picture of all of them and of course, they couldn't do it without being silly. Look at these goobers :)

Luckily, our timing of coming out to Utah happened to coincide with my new nephew's baby blessing. It was so neat to see him get blessed by my brother Jon. This is the only picture I got from the day though--- baby andrew was sleeping.

Ty and Kenzie got to spend a lot of time with Sadie and Cooper, two of their cousins. The first night we stayed at their house, the four of them were up until midnight. Tyler was too cranky to get in this picture-- that's what having a lot of fun, staying up too late, and no naps does.

The kids went bowling and golfing with Grandpa-- it's tradition!

Mike and I still can't understand how Wendell managed to win in the last frame.
Unbelievable.

Tyler at the aerospace museum

For Thanksgiving we went out to Toelle and stayed with Mike's grandparents. I'm salivating just looking at these pictures again. YUM!! So much good food. Funny story: Our last night at Oma and Opa's house, Opa decides to make a fire downstairs in the basement fireplace to keep our kids warm. So the kids are down there watching a movie while Opa gets to work and 10 minutes later, Mike goes down to check on the kids and finds a cloud of smoke hovering through the entire basement. Not just a little smoke -- a CLOUD of thick smoke. So we start opening some windows and my Mike and Mike Shelley start trying to waft some of the air through one of them and five minutes later Opa tells them they aren't going to do any good with that window because there is a cover over it outside. Ha!

It ended up being colder in the room than warmer since we had to open all the windows and doors for a good 30 minutes to air everything out. Mike and I also had to wash every single item of clothing that was out since it all smelled like campfire when we got home. So funny!! Maybe someone needs to take the matches away?? :)

I couldn't get either of them to look at the camera... sheesh!

Wendell with the two youngest grandkids.. Sam didn't want to share him though.

4 generation picture