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Our First Thanksgiving

Kory and I decided to brave the unknown and host our own Thanksgiving at our house. I had done this once before when my parents were on their mission and I had my grandparents over for dinner. I ordered the whole meal from Broulims. :) 

Since we're getting bigger and now have three grandkids, it's getting harder for our older kids to join us on our trip to St. George, so we figured it was more important to be together with our kids than to be in St. George (although we LOVE going to St. George). So, I decided to figure out how to make my mom's pies.

I had a special cooking session at my mom's house in which she walked me step by step through making pie crust and pie filling for banana cream, coconut cream, and chocolate pie. These are the recipes she was taught by her mother and I felt happy to be learning how to do it for myself.

Kory decided to take on the turkey. Luckily, he teaches with an expert chef, so Brother Hillam walked Kory through the process--we called him about ten times. Kory brined the turkey the day before and then roasted it the day of. Everything turned out great. All of the kids chipped in bringing side dishes and Kenzie came over to help with a lot of the last minute cooking. 








After letting our dinner digest for a few hours, we decided to put up the Christmas tree since we had many of the kids in the same place. It was fun putting up the decorations to the lovely music of Carpenter's Christmas and then we finished the night off with a Mario Kart tournament. Good times!


The day after Thanksgiving we took the kids who are still at home to a movie. It was impossible to get everyone to agree to the same movie, since each of us had seen at least one of the options, so in the end, Kory and Caleb went to Thor and me and the girls went to Wonder, which we cried all the way through.

On Saturday, the kids were with their mom, so  Kory and I did some errands and had a delicious breakfast at Abracadabra--this fantastic breakfast place near the mall. Later, we headed to Sugar City to spend some time with my family. We were going to try to golf a round, but decided we would freeze to death, so we went to the theatre and saw Thor--my first time. After that, we went to my parents and visited with all of my siblings who were in town and then had a big pizza party. After that, we headed to Rexburg to see Santa. It was a surprisingly warm night, so we had fun waiting to see Santa and visiting with friends.





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