Thanksgiving Weekend

Marta and Joel came to my house for Thanksgiving weekend. It was fun to have them here in Utah. Marta and went to a sale at midnight and stood in line for an hour...to find out that the good stuff was gone. We went home and got some sleep and didn't go shopping until late morning on Friday. We went to a wholesale home decor place and got some fun decorations, got our wall flower refills at Bath and Body works for $5 and bought a couple of things at Lowe's.

Saturday during the BYU & Utah football game we watched Music & lyrics. I know, we were totally breaking status quo on that one. But, it is a great movie that makes you laugh! Even Joel laughed at it...he was worried it would be too much of a chick flick.

Saturday evening we were unloading our shopping treasures from my trunk. When I decided that I would be tricky. I had the last load of stuff in my hands and thought I could balance it on my leg, if I put my foot on the bumper and close the trunk door. Yeah, well it didn't work out that way.

Thank goodness for Marta and her camera...she captured the events. I tried to put the slide show on my blog, but can't get it to work. So here is the link.

http://www.slide.com/r/3KahtdIh0j-J1wIgaSP4tcM86nqkQNB7

I hope you enjoy it, don't feel bad for laughing...we were laughing when it happened too. Weren't we Marta?

Hawaii

I was able to go to Hawaii for the first time this summer. I went to the O' ahu island. I would like to go back someday and see some of the other islands. I was surprised that the whole island was not a tropical paradise. I wasn't expecting to see dry barren areas.

There is a place called the blow hole which isn't far from Waikiki. It was really cool to see the waves come in and crash into the rocks. If enough water went down into the hole it would then blow out the water.

While I was there I went to the Botanical Gardens and got to see some really cool tropical plants.

This tree was called the cannon ball tree. It had these fruits that are big and really heavy. If they were to fall on your head it coulr knock you out! I thought it was kind of a funny tree.

Everywhere you went there were flowering trees and bushes. The air was filled with floral scents.

One morning I did venture up to Diamond head to try and catch the sunrise. Unfortunately, the sunrise was pretty much over by the time I hiked to the top. But, the view was still quite amazing. I think this is looking towards where Annika may have lived while she was there.

This is looking towards Waikiki from Diamond Head.

Sunset on Waikiki Beach

This was a lookout that we stopped at, I can't remember what it was called. It was super windy up there. The view was breathtaking.

I went to the Polynesian Cultural Center for a day. This was a lot of fun to learn about the different cultures of the islands.

The temple is right by the cultural center.

Thanksgiving Day 2007, in McCammon

When I was a little girl we would have thanksgiving at Grandma Raymond's. The whole family would be there. We had fun eating, playing with cousins and building memories. I got to go back to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving again this year.

Getting ready for dinner. Aunt Carla had made little name place cards with Thanksgiving trivia on the inside. We got to learn all about Thanksgiving as the dinner was cooling off...as if we werent hungry enough.

After our long wait for the turkey to finish cooking, Joel was designated the turkey carver. He seems to be treating the turkey like it is on the examination table at the hospital. Thanks for carving the turkey Nurse Joel.

ON GUARD! Aunt Carla was our constant source of entertainment. Seems like fencing isn't new to Aunt Carla, she has quite the stance. Joel, well...you may need to practice your stance a little more.

Aunt Carla, Aunt Becky, Joel, Marta and Grandma ready to eat dinner. Are you hungry yet?

I was sitting at the end by Aunt Becky.

Joel zonked out after the meal on the loveseat. When he woke up, there was no blood in his legs. He had a hard time standing.




We played Rack-O...and I was the big loser! Joel and Aunt Carla serenaded us while we played with show tunes and songs from back in the day.


Thanks for all the fun memories~!!