Thanksgiving 2011

This year, Braden had the opportunity to work on Thanksgiving which left us girls on our own.

We have sister missionaries in our ward, and I must say they are pretty awesome.  They organized a Thankful Turkey Trot at Liberty Park for 7am. You were supposed to fill out a sheet with 10 things you were thankful for and pin it to your shirt for the trot.  We made it around 7:15. Unfortunately the "babysitters" that we thought would be there weren't, so I didn't get to trot. The girls made it 4 laps around the track in the stroller before they were practically in tears to go play on the playground. So we played.  They had a blast being the only kids there.

 Picnic time!

It was such a cold, cloudy day we went back home just in time to meet daddy, who was able to stop by for a bit.

After making 2 fruit salads, a cake, whipping some cream and cleaning up the mess. We got dressed up and headed over to Nana and Grandpa's house for dinner.

My girls actually sat for a few pictures!

After dinner and hanging out with family for the evening. I put the girls to bed and met up with Amy to wait in line for Target's Black Friday sale. (Yes, Braden was home from work). We enjoyed chatting and trying not to freeze during our 3 hour wait.  All so we could get like $20 worth of stuff. But we had a good time.

I'll end this post with Brighton's thankful list she made with me the other day.

Brighton's Thankful List:

Balloons
Bouncy houses
Pictures
Books
Cars
Parties
Blocks
Clocks
Nana
Grandma
Drinks
RJ
Shoes
Pianos
Thomas the Train
Mommy
Sundee
Morgan
Tiara
Audrey
Makayla
Maggie
Baby Claire
Baby Van
Daddy
Mike
Grandpas
Catherine
Soni

Sorry if you didn't make the list!

We are so grateful for all of our wonderful friends and family.  We hope you all had an awesome thanksgiving!