Thanksgiving!!

Our Thanksgiving Feast was spent with the Taylor's this year, at Jake and Andrea's. It was 

delicious!  Cory and Shea decided to both make the turkeys, cory's traditional and shea did his Smoked.  both were amazing!!

That morning the boys played their annual football game at the Hansen's 

and then they all went skeet shooting.  After Thanksgiving, we played Bingo with the kids.

They loved their dollar prizes, which kept them entertained for hours.  

That night at 7pm we went with my sisters to see Disney's "Frozen"  it was possibly the cutest

show i've seen in a while.  Kids loved it and then i sent them home with their daddy while 

my sisters and I went "Black Friday" shopping!! 

We picked out our Christmas Tree on friday and decorated it, while making Hot chocolate

and listening to christmas music super loud!  I love Traditions!!  

I love how my little miss asked for the turkey leg! hahaha!  

***BINGO***

Our perfect tree!!  we love getting real trees it smells so wonderful!

my cutest little elves....

  Then on Saturday we went to Temple square with the Johnson cousins to see the lights 

and shoparound and then eat at "Red Rock"  it was  a perfect Thanksgiving break!

Thanksgiving break!

We enjoyed the beautiful sunshine and fabulous weather in Mesa Arizona.  We 

stayed with our taylor cousins and had a blast.

thanksgiving dinner was fabulous, jane is an amazing cook and made the two turkey's, her

famous cranberry sauce {to die for} and lots of other delicious treats.  She tried a turkey 

wrapped with bacon and it was a hit!  Cory may try to make our turkey like that from

now on.

We ate at Tia Rosa's the night before our Feast and it was delicious.  We went shopping,  

played lots of games and just enjoyed being outside in the warm sun.  

So grateful to have this beautiful and healthy family which brings me so much happiness!

feeling so blessed...

My sister Rachel was spending Thanksgiving in Chandler just about 15 minutes away from us

it was so fun to meet up with them too and swim!  They met us on Thanksgiving night at Target for some black friday shopping! haha

the best part was they just wanted to see us and hang out so they really only bought water!! haha

While shopping at Santan village they had it snowing bubbles for a few minutes.

so much to be thankful for...

we had a fabulous weekend filled with family, football, games, food {AMAZ-ing food} 

movies & shopping!  yep black friday shopping was good!!

we hosted the Taylor side this year with 30 people on Thanksgiving day and it was awesome!  

Cory made the turkey with homemade bread for the stuffing & well plenty of butter.  

BEST turkey EVER!  

cory's mom is an amazing cook, so we pretty much had the perfect feast.  

she even made her spoiled son, cory his favorite coconut creme pie.

  everything was delicious!

the morning started with a good ol game of football for the boys!  this year it was

 right out our backyard in the field.  {our backyard backs a 5 acre park}

 no fighting for a place to play!

hayes played this year & scored lots of touchdowns!

the Tables

my attempt to a {diy} bow napkin from pinterest.

 and guess who surprised us Thanksgiving Morning?!

judd, candace and mya!

 sisters/sister in laws {missing jane & andrea}

pregnant sisters!! ha   heather and I opted out on this one!

i'm grateful for these sweet babies and my very handsome hubby! ;)

after some cleaning and rearranging furniture we headed upstairs to play some 

BINGO with the kids! 

so much fun!

my heart is full...

of gratitude.

 of love.

 of thanksgiving.

i feel so blessed to have such an amazing family!  I struggled for years trying to have

 another baby, and never imagined i'd have so much beautiful chaos surrounding me.

  I love it!  

There is nothing better than when my kids all snuggle up with us in our bed to watch a movie
 or the sound of out of control giggling when we are all together. 

I'm so lucky to have such an awesome husband & wonderful father to my kids,
he works so hard to give us 'The Good Life'...

He has made me one happy momma.

so grateful for friends and family who bear each others burdens and truly are always there
 when you need them.  for laughter, fun and for making many fabulous memories. 

grateful for my health and beautiful surroundings that i get to enjoy on a daily basis!  I love the
feeling of peace and accomplishment that come when i run outside and see all
the beauty that surrounds me.

grateful for the gospel of Jesus Christ & my Faith which brings me MUCH comfort
and Joy...true joy!

~count your many blessings

Life is beautiful...

I'm actually so excited to be getting a huge snow storm coming our way.  

We are not going out of town now because of the dangerous weather conditions and are 

planning on hanging out with lots of family and enjoying lounging around watching movies 

and making all sorts of goodies.   

hope you all have a fabulous Thanksgiving!

muah!!

"Thanksgiving day"

Cory, Boston and all the Boys started off the day with "Football" at 7:30 am with all the Hansen,Carson & Taylor Boys! Boston Scored 6 touchdowns, and an Interception and was totally pumped about his 3 hour morning of football games!
Since i was up with them, i finished my Book "the Great Gatsby" and then Decorated all the Tables by 9:30. Yes it took a while but i did have 21 adults, 7 Pre teens/Teens, & 9 toddlers ....It was so much fun and the tables turned out so cute, thanks to Ally and her Wonderful art work on the toddler and little kids tables!
The food was DELICIOUS and i am still so stuffed! We went to see the movie "Enchanted" after dinner and met my sisters and their kids, so we had lots of fun cousins filling up the theater!
The movie was awesome, i totally loved it! After the Movie i came home to a totally clean kitchen and house, so thank you so much Phil,Shea & Heather!

I love Thanksgiving, and am so Extremely grateful for Healthy Children, a Loving Amazing Husband, and Family, Family, Family!






This is the Pre teen/ Teen table...they did all sorts of crossword puzzles and word searches.

The kids have been having a Blast, Hayes has been walking around all night saying "i Love So So" (sophie) He & Olivia love playing with Brynn and Sophie. Boston of course is loving every minute of it...