Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving in Yerington with the Lindsey clan this year. David and Linda moved several months ago and this was our 1st venture to their new home. I have to admit it was one of the most bland drives. Barren land most of the way. We planned to stop and get some dinner a few hours into the trip and found out that was a bad plan. There's really no where to eat in the middle of nowhere. By the time we arrived in Winnemuca we were close to famished and quite tired. We decided to get some food and check into a motel and drive the last 2 1/2 hours Thanksgiving morning.

Athena, Elise and Lydia by the Indian tee pee.

Brooke, Elise, Whitney, and Isabella quite appropriately dressed for the Holiday.

The dessert portion of Thanksgiving dinner. Linda loves to make dessert and always has lots for us. The kids love it!

Joey and Lydia

Bronson, Davey and Hyrum in the "boys room." They had a great time playing together.

Joey and Bronson

Saturday Linda held a carnival for the kids. She's always so good to plan fun activities for the grand kids. Early in the weekend the children earned carnival tickets by helping with chores. There were several different games at the carnival like a fishing pond, bean bag toss, penny toss, face painting, candy guessing jars, cake walk, and one sort of like a pie throwing contest only they threw a stuffed animal. Even the house was decorated for the occasion and we ate carnival food for lunch. So festive and fun!

Jon helping Bella with the fishing pond.

My handsome husband :)

Aunt Elise did an excellent job with the face paintings. Most of the girls had butterflies and the boys had BYU logos in honor of the game later that day. Hyrum chose to have BSU, who had played the night before.

Jon trying to beat the record, which Hyrum held, in the penny toss.

Party favors from the carnival

Pretty princess (butterfly) Lydia

Before we left our home, Hyrum was begging to throw his sled in the trunk. Jon and I told him no explaining that there would not be any snow in Yerington. I had checked the weather before we left and it claimed 0% chance of precipitation each day we were there. Plus, it is an extreme desert there. Once again, Hyrum knows best. Turns out we should have listened to him! It snow quiet a bit Thanksgiving night and stay the rest of the weekend.

All together there were 22 grandchildren and 12 adults there. Absolute chaos, but handled amazingly well. The Lindsey's never cease to amaze me. I love seeing how different they are from my family. It's adds a whole new and interesting view to life. I truly enjoy it.

The following pictures are ones I stole from Elise's blog. Thanks Elise!

Happy 7th Birthday, Hyrum!

Happy 7th Birthday to our sweet boy, Hyrum! His birthday fell on Sunday this year. Lucky for him because that meant we celebrated more than one day. On his actual birthday we had Miss Hulet and Trevor come over for ice cream and he opened presents from us (Red Ryder BB gun and Battleship).

On Saturday Hyrum had a party with several of his friends. Jon did a great job entertaining the boys with 4wheeling, bow shooting, and other outdoor activities. (We borrowed our friends' yard that's next to our land. They moved to WA a few months ago. Thanks guys!)

Austin

It was a little tricky lighting the candles with a slight breeze. Despite having a November birthday, it seems that each year the weather is beautiful and we're able to be outside for Hyrum's birthday.

Carson

Eating pizza- yummie!

Like father like son...

Weston

Isaac

Weston

Trevor and Carson

Carson, Weston, Birthday Boy, Trevor, Isaac, Austin

Grace came over to play with Lydia so Lydia would be occupied.

Friday we took the kids and Trevor to Chuck E. Cheese in Boise. Lydia was little timid when the actual Chuck E. Cheese came out.

Hyrum and Trevor spend the majority of their time and tokens on this hunting game. Big surprise, I know!

We all had a great time there and went through about 140 tokens I believe. It was nice because there were games Jon and I enjoyed also.

We ran a few errands before we actually made it to Chuck E Cheese and the kids were so anxious to get there. This photo is of when we FINALLY arrived. Hooray!

I think Hyrum's decided he'd like to have his birthday on Sunday on every year now after 3 days of celebration. Lucky boy didn't have school the Monday after his birthday either so he claims he celebrated for 4 days. Sure is fun to be Hyrum!

I found this photo of Hyrum and I at Chuck E Cheese in Texas in June of 2005. We were there for his friend's birthday party. Amazing how the time flies!!!