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!

Thanksgiving 2010

Nothing exciting about our Thanksgiving really. We stuck with tradition and watched Braden play football in the morning after a breakfast of french toast and eggs.
 


Came home for nice long naps.

Dressed up a bit for dinner at the Christensen home front.

Ate a lot.

Watched football.

And I think we ended the night checking facebook (me) and playing xbox (Braden).

I did however cook the turkey this year. Thanks to Megan for turning me onto turkey breasts in the crock pot! They turned out delicious. I cooked three 7lb turkey breast on the bone along with a couple of turkey thighs. Shoved them into 3 crock pots with some salt and pepper for about 6 1/2 hours and done!

Exciting, I know.

It's December!?

Wow, how time is flying!

I'm just going to recap several things in one post :)

First, I had the pleasure of seeing New Moon with this fun group on the 2oth.

Several of us made shirts to wear for the event. Mine is on the back, but it said, "I like my men cold, dead and sparkly". Shawna's said "What do you mean Edward doesn't exist?" on the front, and "What happens on Isle Esme, stays on Isle Esme". Complete with feathers (from pillows) stuck all over. Stacy's said, "Reneesme" with an arrow pointing to her stomach. It was a blast!

Then came Thanksgiving. The night before I made my very first pie. Not homemade crust, but I did do homemade filling. It was a ton of work! I saw an apple pie picture in a magazine a few weeks before with cute leaf cut outs on top, so I thought I'd give it a try. I thought it turned out cute, and it actually tasted pretty good.


Thanksgiving morning, Brighton and I watched Braden play some good old touch football.

After we headed to his parents to let Brighton have a nap, and to get ready to eat! I put her down for a nap in a play pen at the base of a bed that had some things on it from the kitchen table. When Soni got her up from her nap, we found this:

I guess the fruit bowl was a little too close, and she decided to have a sample.


After Thanksgiving, it was up with the Christmas decor! Brighton loved this shoe box that I had some decorations in. I was amazed she could fit into it!
The other day I was at Joann's and saw these little fax trees for $3.99. I thought it would be fun for Brighton's room. So we got that, some little wooden ornaments, and some beads to decorate it with. She was into it for about 30 seconds. Oh well. As she gets older, hopefully she'll like decorating for her room each year.

She was more into draping the beads around her and prancing around.

It feels good to be doing things again! I am feeling much, much better which has been awesome :) Almost done with the first trimester... yaaay!