Thanksgiving Trip to Utah 2017

 We were able to spend Thanksgiving 2018 in Utah. We spent Wednesday night in St. George and drove to SLC on Thanksgiving morning. We went to the Jensen's house for Thanksgiving dinner. We hadn't been there for Thanksgiving for 5 years. As contribution to the Thanksgiving dinner, Erik made the acini/frog-eye/tropical fruit salad. 

The kids playing the the toy room in Jensen's house

Elisa talking with her second cousin Ella.

All the kids had a great time playing out back on the swingset.  It was a really mild November, especially for Utah.

All ready to eat!

Even more food on the counter

My Thanksgiving dinner plate.  Yum!

My handsome dinner date

Elisa and Isabelle were instant buddies. Gabe and Brody seemed to get along too.

Ian, Elisa, and Isabelle.  I'm sure if Elisa and Isabelle lived closer to each other, they would hang out every day! 

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We spent the night at Cindy's town house. Cindy wasn't there, but some of her roommates arrived in the middle of the night, so we tried to avoid them. We went to Lisa and Eric's house for the rest of the trip.  It was only a night or two that we stayed.  I wish it could have been longer, but we were lucky to see them at all!  We had a lot of fun for the short amount of time we were there. The kids loved playing together and we enjoyed Papa Murphy's pizza, chocolate chip cookies, and a few (or more than a few) rounds of Fibbage after dinner!

Elisa loves practicing her gymnastics moves with Aaliyah on Aaliyah's mat.  Sometimes they use it as a fort.

Best buds!  They are super adorable together.

Best friends!

Some nice pictures I took of Aaliyah on my phone camera

A silly picture of silly Elisa!

A colored picture drawing I did for Lisa of Aaliyah.  It's not that great, but Elisa had fun helping me.  She sharpened the pencils when I needed them sharpened, and helped color the blue background.

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 We stopped at Grandpa Ron's house on the way back to St. George.  I would have like to have spent the night, but that would mean even more driving the next day.  We had "spaghetti" and corn on the cob for dinner, and an apple pie for dessert.  I got a blast from the past as I sorted through a bin of  some old crap from high school.  I threw most of it away, but I did take home a couple of things, including my very first journal and some vintage Strawberry Shortcake books that Elisa enjoys reading with me.

The kids had fun playing with dried corn on the cob.

Ian learned the "Eenie Meanie" rhyme.  Here is a video of him saying it.  So cute!

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Aaaaaand back to Grandma and Grandpa's house in St. George. There was no swimming this time, but still a lot of hanging around (to me more accurate--on) grandpa.  

Elisa and her BFF, aka Grandpa "with the mustache"

Just call him Mr. Mac n Cheese.

That concludes our Thanksgiving 2017 trip to Utah!