FINALLY!! ....Thanksgiving....

Okay, since I have some people worried that I have fallen off the face of the earth (I love you, Lina!).... I better get these positngs updated. Sorry, there won't be the usual slew of photos, but I just don't have enough time in the day to get it all the way I want it. I've had the posts written for awhile now, but no time to find the pictures to put with them, so there will be some random pictures that don't really go with the stories, but you know me.....

So I will cover Thanksgiving, our move, and Christmas in the next 3 posts, so settle in and enjoy the ride!

We made our traditional trek to Wyoming for Thanksgiving. Since I hadn't seen handsome hubby for over a month, I took the whole week off of work and flew to meet him and go to his parents' house for the festivities.

(don't be frightened, it's only Kolby)

This year we missed the Stucki fam as it was their year with Karlo's family. But we DID have our 3 favorite Wyoming grands with us for the week! It was so much fun to get to spend time with them! Oh and to spend time with Travis and Robin too... :-)

We got to Riverton on Saturday morning and spent the day visiting with the in-laws. Sunday we took hubby's mom to church and saw a lot of old friends there and had a good time catching up with them.

The rest of the week was spent working on house stuff, baking goodies, cleaning and preparing for Turkey Day.

Thanksgiving dinner was held at the church and was smaller this year than it has been for quite a long time! A lot of grandkids and great grandkids were missing and were very much missed. The food was great, the conversations were good and it was a lot of fun to spend time just playing with grands and hanging out.

Friday, we made the traditional trip to my mother's house for another dinner. Two of my brothers were able to make it there and it was great to get to see them and catch up. Jack is healing very well from his heart bypass and seemed happy with the 12 loaves of banana bread I took to him.

Since we aren't able to attend my mom's Christmas party, we got to open our presents over Thanksgiving. So after dinner, we got to do presents. The grands loved their gifts and the adults had a good time watching them and opening their own. We are all very greatful for the time and effort and love mom puts into finding just the right thing each year.

Handsome hubby had a job interview just before he came to meet me for Thanksgiving and they called him during the weekend to offer him the job. The only problem was that I had already purchased my return ticket back to Arizona from Billings Montana because he was going to go do some work on his sister's house about 90 miles away from Billings. So, since the plans changed, we drove to Billings on Friday night and spent the day together Saturday before he had to leave and head for Boise to start his new job on Monday. I stayed at the hotel and took the shuttle to the airport for my flight back to Arizona.

While we were very busy and spent a ton of time on the road, we had a wonderful visit and a great Thanksgiving!!