Here are the rest of the pictures from our Thanksgiving trip. After much deliberation, we decided to have Thanksgiving at Lisa's house. The Blaylocks made the mac n cheese (at Ian's request) and the rest of us made everything else. It was a lot of work, but everything turned out yummy! I didn't make my rolls this year because they gave us a couple of packs of rolls at the race, since we were bold and tacky enough to ask for some (seriously, they had an entire wall of unopened bags of rolls, so I don't feel bad about it). My aunt Jane (my dad's sister), uncle Chuck, and cousin Levi came over to Lisa's for Thanksgiving. They brought some jalapeño poppers, which Ian really liked. Jane really connected with Lisa since she has recently decided to teach art to kids. The food was yummy and we had good conversation:
My plate, midway through eating it and then realizing I hadn't taken a picture of the food.
My mom likes pie with her whipped cream.
I sat between my parents during Thanksgiving dinner
3 cuties in their matching race shirts, playing video games after we all ate.
My aunt Jane with my dad and with me
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The next day (Friday) Erik's cousin Lindsay invited us all to go bowling and eat pizza at All Star Bowling & Entertainment in Draper. Elisa enjoyed hanging out with Isabelle. Gabe didn't really know how to bowl at first, but he figured it out towards the end, and didn't do so bad. I don't think Ian enjoyed bowling too much, but he sure enjoyed eating the pizza. I did pretty well at bowling if I do say so myself. Better than Erik haha. But just slightly. After bowling, Isabell's grandma gave each of the kids a game card loaded each with $20 so that they could play the arcade games. They blew through the cards pretty fast, but they had fun. Gabe still had some money on the card when it was time to play laser tag, so while he played I (with his permission) used his card to get him more points, and I won the jackpot on one game, so he had lots of points! He took forever deciding on which prizes to pick out using his points, I don't blame him--the prizes weren't the best.
Ian never did catch on to bowling. Maybe someday!
These girls were two peas in a pod!
It took Gabe a little bit to catch on to how to bowl, but he did manage a few decent rolls in there.
Erik did pretty good! But I did better. Haha.
The girls didn't care so much about getting points as they did just being with eachother
Playing a game with dad
Gabe and Ian with their prizes
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We went home Saturday afternoon
Nov. 30th
On our way to one last run on the trail before I left, my dad and were amused by these ducks crossing the road--how cute!!
Nov. 30th
Elisa and Aaliyah were besties and had fun making lots of stuff in Lisa's kitchen.
Nov. 30
I guess we flew home--I don't remember it at all, but this picture my mom took is proof!
That's it for our fun Thanksgiving trip! We had the best time! I hope we can go again next year.
You can come to our house and I'll make the mac 'n cheese. How does Lisa always get so lucky not to do the cooking? It was really nice that all of you went bowling and ate pizza with Lindsay's family and even nice that Justin's mom Kim gave out money for the arcade.
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