Thanksgiving

We celebrated Thanksgiving with my side of the family the Sunday before Thanksgiving.  David and I decided that after our move to Logan we would no longer leave our house on the holidays.  We both grew up staying home and having other family members come to our house and that's what we really want for our own kids.  The move has pushed us to make that a reality because we don't want to put our kids in the car for 2 hours every holiday.  We'd rather relax at home and enjoy our time together.  Here are a few pictures from my families party...

 My family brought the things to make a Turkey snack.  You use fruit loops and cheerios in a rubber glove and then add a beak and eyes.  The kids all had fun with it.

 We celebrated with Davids side of the family on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving.  We gave them the entire month of November, but the only day that worked for Curtis and Jason was on Thanksgiving.  Dale and Connie just did two dinners.  It worked out well since Jeff was going to be gone on Thanksgiving due to a trip to California so he was able to be included too.  We also would have had to miss the family dinner due to illness if we were combined with Jason because we are very against getting our sick kids near other sick kids.  Shelby had a cold that turned into a sinus infection and double ear infection.  She was pretty good most of the day, but at dinner just wanted to lay with me.  The dinner was good and I'm glad it worked out to where we could participate even if it was a different day.  

On Thanksgiving we celebrated at home.  The girls wore the outfits that Shelby made at school.  We didn't cook a turkey dinner because we already had two within a week.  Shelby was miserable and kept us all up all night with her cough.  Kadence was fine all day minus a minor sniffle and then all of a sudden she got a fever of 103.2.  My girls don't really get fevers and when they do, they don't get a fever above 101.  David and I were pretty freaked out, but we couldn't find a dr in all of Cache Valley that was open on the holiday.  We could get her fever down in the 102's so we just kept up on the meds and brought her in to the dr the next day.  Sure enough, she had pneumonia again.  

 My girls loved watching the Lady Gaga Thanksgiving special on TV and you would have never been able to guess they were sick!  They were up dancing and so excited to see her.  (Although they got pretty tuckered out after about 10 minutes of dancing)

It wasn't the ideal Thanksgiving, but it was still a good one.  We have many more things to be grateful for than we do to complain about that is for sure.  We are blessed.  I love my girls and they are so amazing even when they are sick.  We are truly blessed to be their parents!