Thanksgiving 2019

Winter is officially here. And although I thought that during the week of Halloween when the temperature shot down to 20, now there's snow everywhere... So, I guess that's that. Only about 4 more months until the snow is gone again, but who's counting. Haha!

Well, one positive about the snow is that we were gone in Arizona when it came! Our neighbor texted us to see if our power was out and it made me in an even more thankful mood that we were gone. Lol.

Aside from the warmer weather, the best part of our trip was that we got to have a family reunion and visit with everyone in my family (Except Angie and her family since they couldn't come. We did get to see them this past week though which was fun!) (This was after our white elephant gift exchange, by the way.)

We drove down on Saturday, and stayed at my brother, Taylor's house. On Sunday, we went to church and did a small hike by their house. Right when we started the hike, David said, "Okay. Who brought the knife?" That caught me off guard but he explained that he wanted one so he could cut into a cactus and see what was in it. Haha! We had to explain to him that that's not allowed in Arizona and he was a little bummed out, but still happy to be able to get closer to one.

During the rest of the week, we did a lot of fun things! With an entire week to spend together, we went to Top Golf, watched Frozen 2,

Went mini golfing at Castles and Coasters,

Went to the World of Illumination light show... (Aaron's face! Lol.)...

And played lots of board games and minecraft in between. 

Oh yeah, and stuffed ourselves full on Thanksgiving day! 

Somehow we ended up with a lot of pictures with Aaron in it (usually someone holding him)... So, Que pictures with Aaron...

Another fun thing we did was have a minute to win it contest. We did this at our last family reunion and Tay asked if I could put some games together and we could make it a tradition. In the end, Tay and Christina's family won, so they'll be the family to beat next time! John and I will start practicing our balloon balancing and sabotaging strategies now, so watch out guys! Haha!

One last  thing to mention is the joke Tami and I pulled on everyone. A few months before, we found two matching dresses at the thrift store. Although some people might like this style, to us, these dresses were hideous. I changed into it first and my parents totally bought in to thinking I was serious about this dress. My sister Julia was not so sure... A while later Tami came down wearing the same dress! We pretended to be shocked that we each had the same dress on. My sister Julia knew it was a joke as soon as Tami came into the room, my parents weren't sure, and when we asked my brother if he liked it, he just said, "...Huh." Well, either way, it was so funny! We'll see if we can ever find something to top that dress!

The drive home was like the drive there except that we gradually had to put coats back on instead of taking them off. And now we're surrounded by snow again.

Until next time, sunshine.