Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving!
I didn't take a lot of pictures which is strange for me. It was just such a chill day, but my brother Casey and his wife came up from Orem and we had a great afternoon and evening eating lots of food and playing games!

The food.

Me and my herb rubbed turkey!

Friday
On Friday we set up the Christmas tree and started getting ready for the season!
Becca and the cats were very interested.

Just a cute shot of Becca kissing her baby doll. She has really taken a stronger interst in them lately.

Working on fluffling.

But the best part after the fluffing is it is pre-lit! Ooohs and Ahhs all around!

Our beautiful princess! The purple dress was because we also went to see TANGLED and Becca wanted to dress up like Rapunzel. It was seriously good! We laughed and I cried twice. Becca just loved it too! Best family movie of the year!

Saturday
On Saturday my brother's family came to stay with us before heading back to CA after having Thanksgiving in Logan with my SIL's family. We decided to go see the lights at temple square.

We decided to take TRAX up, and believe it or not it was my first time! This is my brother and his cute family!

And us on the TRAX.

With the lights...um...that dad missed in the picture.

This is the cousins, minus baby Clara in her stroller.

I just LOVE the lights on temple square!



We went in to see the Christus. Becca was very excited to see Jesus. And it was a great stop to warm up!

I love to see the temple!

Daddy and Becca with the star lights.





In the South visitor's center they have this newer section model of the inside of the temple. It was really cool to see how it all fit together. I didn't realize how BIG the assembly hall was in the top room.

Clara surviving the cold all bundled up!


Our family with the temple and lights! Merry Christmas!

A closer shot.

On the East side of the temple there was this little lonely section that no one was going to see with these AWESOME green and blue lights. I loved the glow!

Becca was enjoying the Luminarias. A great distraction since she had been saying (I want to go home) for the last 20 minutes. She was just SO cold!

Ryan's family and the temple (this shot came out a little dark)

Us and the temple.

The nativity in the reflection pond.

Such an amazing place!

Me in front of the temple.

Becca our frozen little popsicle!

We had a really fun weekend despite some illnesses that took over (mostly me this time). We are looking forward to the rest of this month and all the crazy Christmas celebrating, but also taking time to remember what the season is all about!!!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Midnight Show and Party!

I already posted these on FB, but I wanted those of you who read the blog to see the fun we had too!

Last night we had a party and went to see Deathly Hallows at midnight. It was SO fun!

Becca was so excited about getting ready for the party. She ate some dinner with daddy by the horcuxes.

Gryffindor common room, complete with Harry's invisibility cloak (I need to get some close up shots of it cause it was pretty cool!

The sorting hat and Beedle the Bard.

Our potions.

Bubbling Butterbeer. Mmmm.

Polyjuice Potion soup (home made mushroom soup and crutons oh my it was so good! Wish I could take credit for this one!)

Herbology Sampler. ;)

Broomstick Bread!

Pumpkin pasties, made this year as mini-pies rather than pockets.

Cockroach clusters!

Every flavor beans (that were just the normal mixed flavor kind).

Hagrid's Homeade Dragon Has to dip our batwing chips in (not pictured).

Peppermint Toads! I made these, and they were pretty good! More of them were eaten and taken than the chocolate frogs from last year.

Dialma, me and Sara. We missed Erin!

Dave and Camille! Or should I say our muggle and Tonks!

Our awesome trio of girls who joined us just for the party fun! Susie (who looks remarkably like hermione in her muggle clothes), Randi, and Laci! I love the faces ladies!

Sara and Trav lounging in Gryffindor common room. Hanging with the cloak...you can see the Deathly Hallows symbol I marked the cloak with in this one. ;)

Chelsea and our resident Dementor...otherwise known as Jena.

And Jena showing her true self, and eating every flavor beans! She was SEARCHING for the gross ones! Of all of them dogfood stuck with her and was actually strong enough to smell...ick!

All of us costume types! Hermione (Diane), Luna (Teresa), Rita Skeeter (Carrie) - our costume constest winner...she even had a quick quotes quill!, Tonks (Camille), Hermione (me), Harry (Tyson...of course!), Dementor (Jena)!

Andrew and Shauna with their tickets!

The three girls excited for it to start!

Tyson sat in front of me...it just had to be that way to get eveyone else the best groupings possible.

Tyson and Andrew, Shauna taking a little nap before the show.

Our cute neighborhood ladies! Jamie, Chelsea, Jena and Nickie!

Camille and Diane chilling before the movie starts!

Rita and Luna...what a match!

Dialma and her cute sister!

Tyson and me with the big Harry poster! I LOVE that Tyson does this with me!

I have the number one BEST friends and neighborhood in the world! I love getting silly and crazy with them! And a HUGE HUGE HUGE thanks to my friend Mandy who let Becca sleep over at her house so Tyson could come with me this year! Seriously, best friends in the whole world!