Thanksgiving 2016

This year might be one of my favorite Thanksgiving's yet. Well Moab was pretty awesome last year, so I should say it was my favorite Thanksgiving spent at home. I think what made it my favorite was the ease and the relaxation of the day. Why? Let me explain.

Since Chan got married last week my mom wanted to hold Thanksgiving with my side of the family on the Sunday after Thanksgiving (yesterday). So when I found that out I went to Heidi and told her we were all hers on Thanksgiving day. But she found out T&T and A&E were going with their in-laws because we were all together last year for Thanksgiving (and I'm sure because of our upcoming Smith family vacation to Mexico coming up in a few weeks).  So that left Mike and Heidi with us. Haha.

After talking about what we wanted to do on the day we all agreed it wasn't worth doing the whole production for just 4 adults. And going out to eat was looking to be too expensive. So we decided to just forget the whole thing just go to a movie and order pizza. Haha. So that's totally what we did.

Wednesdays night I was placing the order with Papa Johns and trying to have it ready for Thanksgiving day and realized that I better call and make sure they were open. Well they were closed. So I decided to order it and have it delivered. Keep in mind that it was about 9pm, snowing for the first time this season and Jesse was on duty. After I placed the order I got a phone call from Papa Johns telling me they couldn't deliver because of the roads and asked if I could pick it up. Desperate to have my Thanksgiving pizza I said Yes, but needed to clear my driveway.

I go out and try to get the snowblower to start and it wouldn't. So I started to shovel and realize it was going to take me forever. Feeling frustrated and realizing that my street was totally clear and didn't see why they couldn't delver, I called Papa Johns back and begged them to deliver it. After play damsel in distress to the manager he said he would. Yay.

I wanted to clear a path for the delivery guy so when he arrived I was at the bottom of the driveway shoveling. When he got out he asked "Having Fun?" I said "No" in a sarcastic voice. I also mentioned that I couldn't get the snowblower to start. He then offered to look at it and figure it out. And after several attempts he had no luck either. But I was so touched by taking the time to help me. He was so sweet. 

I finished shoveling the driveway just in time for the snow to start again. I gave up and decided to wait until morning. 

I left for the gym and thankfully the snow on the driveway didn't need more than a little salt to melt it away. I joined in on the GPP Pie Burn workout at my gym. It was long, sweaty and tough. But I love that kind of workout (especially since I was going to be indulging in pizza).

Our movie was at 1:20pm and before we left for the theater (where we were meeting Mom &Dad) I wanted to get a Thanksgiving Picture of our Family! 

We were seeing the new Disney movie "Moana" and got a picture of us all together by the sign.

The movie was way cute. The boys loved it. Fynn was a busy body moving from person to person on our row.

I had the Pizza warming up in the oven before we left and it was ready to eat when we got back. I had orderd a bunch of Small pizzas but different flavors so we could have a variety. Every bite was sinfully good. It had been months since I've had pizza and it was worth every bite.

The rest of the evening was spent playing games, watching more movies (mostly the kids) and chilling by the fireplace. We've had this fireplace this whole time but have never lit a fire before and now we are wondering why we havent. It was so cozy.

The evening came and my sister Manda and her 2 boys came by for a little bit to visit. Unfortunately , I didn't get a picture but it was nice to play games with her and the boys all play together.

Sunday Thanksgiving:
Mom put me in charge of dessert. Jessica brought the stuffing and my Grandma brought the veggie tray. But my parents put on the rest. Whoo. That's alot of work and it was all so delicious. And they have been in their new home now almost a whole year and they love having us over becasue of all the room they have. Their Great Room is pretty awesome. Get me excited for one day to have the same concept in our house.

Love this family.

We played games, drew names for Christmas and ate my yummy Southern Apple Crumble. It was an evening well spent.