Usually we spend Thanksgiving with my family but this year my family decided to spend it in Florida. Since we had just gone to Jamaica we knew we wouldn't be joining all of them in Florida, sadly. When the plans with the Lowry side changed we knew we would be doing our own dinner together just the seven of us. It was hard to be excited about it at first but I tried to look at the positive things. It ended up being a great weekend!
We had a yummy bacon, egg, and orange julius breakfast to start off the day. Then I used half of the roll dough to make cinnamon rolls and we had a those for a late morning snack. While the turkey was in the smoker we all went out and played roller hockey.
We didn't play roller hockey over the summer so it was good to get back out. Everyone had improved and were more steady on their roller blades. We ended up playing Friday and Saturday that weekend too because we couldn't get enough.
We had an appetizer of garlic shrimp around 1:00 and then ate our feast at 3:00.
After dinner we had some downtime watching a show. We had pie around 6:00 and then started painting. My family has a tradition to do a wood craft so we decided to do a canvas painting. Everyone could paint whatever they wanted. We had quite the variety of paintings.
Top is Marshall's, middle row left: Lynnlee, middle row middle: Sienna, middle row right: Taggart, bottom row left: Rose, bottom row middle: Jameson, bottom row right: Kaden.
Friday I took Sienna and Lynnlee shopping with me. I forgot how bad the lines are on Black Friday. This year the lines were still long but shifted to outside the stores instead of at the checkout. So we didn't last very long shopping.
Saturday we kept up with tradition and saw a movie. War With Grandpa was really entertaining! Everything is better with aunt Betsy so we were really happy she could come with us!
Sunday we decorated a large gingerbread house for our ward. Instead of a ward Christmas party our ward invited everyone to decorate a ginberbread house and send in pictures. Then they put a slide show together. It was fun! I always give my kids a hard time when it comes to decorating gingerbread houses. They like to pile all of their frosting on their roof and stick as many gummy bears as possible on top. With this gingerbread house we decorated it the organized and cute way.
