Thanksgiving fun!

We had the funnest Thanksgiving Break!  We left on Monday and stayed the night in Declo with Dave's sister after having a yummy dinner at IHOP with them.  It is always fun to play with cousins.

Then Tuesday we drove to Corinne and had lunch with Grandpa at the cafe and then when grandma got home from work we drove up to the Ranch to look around for a minute and then to the Golden Spike.  

 Since our Grandpa is so cool, he talked to the rangers and had them take us to the Engine house since they don't bring the trains out in the winter very often.  We got the full tour and it was awesome!

 This is the coal that they use in one of the engines.  We took a picture so we could tell Santa what NOT to bring to us!

 Then we went back to the visitor's center and looked around.  Grandpa bought everyone a special souvineer to help us remember our super fun day!

Then we drove to past the Brigham City Temple.  It was sunset and so beautiful!

In Pleasant Grove we enjoyed Thanksgiving with the Petersons and Grammy and Grandad Poteet.  It wasn't a huge group, but we sure ate lots of yummy food, starting with pies for breakfast!

We did lots of fun things in PG.  We went to the movie one afternoon.  We saw the Smurfs, and boy was it Smurftacular!  We even had popcorn!
 

We went swimming one day at the Lehi Pool.  That was fun!

Monday night I went to SLC and spent the evening with some of my favorite gals, Brooksey and Tiffany.  We had dinner at Rodizio Grill, and if we didn't over stuff ourselves at Thanksgiving, we did there!  It was fun to be together and then to catch up while visiting in the Trolley Square Mall.

Dave had a convention in SLC the next few days, so I spent the night with him at the Marriott Hotel and it was nice to sleep without extra little people wanting our attention for one night.
Grandpa took the day off of work on Tuesday and spent the whole day with the boys.  They started off by hiking the G on the mountain.  They saw some deer and had a wonderful time!  The boys were so surprised to see what the G was made out of.  (By the way, the G stands for Grandpa!)

Then they came home and picked up Mads and AV and took them to Arctic Circle for lunch.  All the while the moms were shopping away!

Then the boys came home and dropped off the girls and then went fishing.  They didn't catch anything but sure had a good time.  Brady said that someone stole all the fish so they couldn't catch them.

Wednesday we headed home.  We made it as far as Twin Falls before the boys were BEGGING us to stop at a hotel so they could swim.  We ate at IHOP for dinner again, (it is so inexpensive with "kids eat free" and the boys eat breakfast so well!) and then stayed at the Best Western.  Their pool was very nice but over chloronated and we had stinging eyes and itchy skin all night. 

Thursday we continued our journey and after lunch at McD's, potty breaks, and ice cream at DQ, we made it home by dinner.  And boys is it nice to be home.  There is really no place like your own bed!

Braden was very anxious to see Pepper, his "favorite person."

And one of the best parts of the vacation was that we got to tell everyone that we are going to have a new baby in June!!  Very exciting!