Thanksgiving Dinner with the Family 2008

This year for Thanksgiving the girls went to all of there in-laws. So Jim, Em, and I went to Aunt Jenines for are Turkey Dinner. We had a great time it was fun to see everyone.

So since we all went to our in-laws for the Holiday we decided to have our family Thanksgiving dinner on Sunday. This year was really great, I had my mom come up to enjoy the day with us. We enjoyed the Turkey and all the trimmings and ate till we couldn't eat anymore. There's nothing like a home cooked Thanksgiving meal. I am so Thankful that my mom and dad taught me how to make the traditional Thanksgiving dinner; and that she was able to come and joy it with us this year. We all had a great time chatting, and eating, and watching the kids have fun. I love this time of year with family it reminds me of all the great past times I had when I was growing up and when I first started my family. I feel very blessed that my girls want to have the same family values and family traditions.

It's funny how Christmas tree's change

This is the first tree Jim and I had when we got married and it was pretty normal for that time. There was really no theme I made everything that was on it.

Okay this is the tree we all say: WHAT WAS I THINKING??? .......LOL This was a real tree that we all went and picked out and Jim chopped it down. The kids call this our bloody tree with all the red. I think we only had this for one Christmas.

This is the new tree we had for our new house, it was a little bare but it was nice. We had it for about 8 years and we would add to it each year. It wasn't too bad! :)

And last but not least, this tree is the one we've had since we've been living here in Heber and I have to say this is the one I love the most it's about 11 feet tall and everything matches. The theme is country and snowmen. I would like to add some new things to it so Ive been keeping an eye out for some cute things that are inexpensive. Last weekend Lindsey & Brandon and some of thier friends got together to watch the BYU game, the girls weren't into the game so the ladies went to check out Tai Pan Trading in Salt Lake and can I just say oh my gosh I LOVE this place they had the cutest things ( a ton of Christmas stuff) and it was really inespensive.

Anyways, back to the tree thing I think it's funny how trees change. It's fun to see the pictures of past Chritsmas' and the way the styles and times have changed. I will always wonder what I was thinking when I look at the "bloody Christmas tree!"

I have a new toy......

I've been trying to go through all my pictures and get them organized and then I want to put them all on a CD. In order to do this I would need a scanner so I've been begging Jim for one and he's so good to me he went and got me one and set it all up and ready to go. ( but if you know Jim then you would know this was not done without a few not so good words.....lol) So yes I have been having so much fun with it and looking at all the old pictures of the girls and of all the Holiday fun we had with my mom & dad.

So with Thanksgiving just around the corner I thought it would been fun to share some pictures i found of my Dad and my grandma, Dad has been gone for awhile and grandma before him. My kids and I talk all the time about the fun we had when we would all get to gather to make great memories and I think it helped my girls want to make great traditions for our family now that they have their little families.

This was Thanksgiving 1991