Scenes From Thanksgiving

 For some reason I thought I had such great pictures of Thanksgiving this year, then I realized that I didn't even take any pictures of our family together, Palmer and I are not in any of them and I completely missed my brother and his family...better luck next year I guess.

 Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays.  It has such a wonderful feeling about it.  I love getting together with family and just enjoying each other.  It doesn't help that we also eat amazing food...

 This year is going to be our last as a family for a while as the handsome boy on the left is going to be turning his mission papers soon and my parents aren't going to be far behind them.  It will be definitely be interesting with so many of our family members gone...I'm not sure I like that idea, but I am excited for them to get to serve missions.

 I wish that there was audio to go with this picture.  My cute nephew was being tickled and it was adorable.

 My beautiful mom and sister Heather, along with the cutest little kid ever.

 These two were our hosts this year and they did an awesome job.  It was SUCH a wonderful Thanksgiving.  It was so fun to be in their beautiful home.

 The kids were so excited about the fun kids table.  They each had these fun turkey place cards (I may have stolen the candy that was holding them up, I really like those things.)

 It is so fun when the cousins get to be together.

 The laughter and silliness coming form the kids room was crazy.  They definitely had a great time together.

It was such a fun Thanksgiving.  After dinner most of the family got on their soccer clothes and went to a soccer field to play a huge soccer game with another family.  

We also celebrated Lincoln's birthday with the family with a yummy Parson's Bakery cake.

It was such a lovely Thanksgiving!

Jr. Jazz Night

 The boys are playing Jr. Jazz basketball this year and were given special tickets to a Jazz game.  The tickets were pretty high up, but it didn't stop us from having a great time. 

We first went to dinner at our favorite restaurant, California Pizza Kitchen.  

 These are a mix of my camera and Instagram pictures.

 Palmer is pretty into taking pictures wherever we go now.  My poor kids now they have two cameras to smile for :)

 They were each given a paper "clacker" to make noise during the game and they took that job seriously.  By the end of the game I was officially DONE with the clackers.

 We sat right behind this giant flag.  The boys thought it was great.

 Intense game...

 McKay is such a good sport about being dragged around to the big boy things.  The iPad keeps him happy.

We had a great night at the Jazz game!

Park City Weekend

In November Josh had a conference at the St. Regis in Park City.  He had been out of town the entire week previous and we hadn't seen him too much, so he invited us to come up to Park City for the weekend (the conference hosts had invited families to come and swim/play at the hotel while the conference was taking place...)

I am always up for an adventure, so I packed the boys up and we headed to Park City.  The hotel room was one of the nicest I have ever stayed in.  The boys thought it was pretty awesome.  They also thought the fridge and drawers full of treats were the greatest thing ever!

It was a COLD day in November, but since the pool was heated, we decided to take a swim.  The boys had so much fun and would go and play in the snow and then get in the pool.  McKay and I kept pretty close to the hot tub.  We had the entire pool and 2 hot tubs to ourselves, it was pretty awesome.

That night Josh went to a dinner for the conference and the boys and I had room service.  This isn't something we do too much when we are in hotels, so the boys were once again, in heaven.  They loved it.  We watched "Brave" while Josh finished up his conference.

After Brave was over we headed down to the game room to wait for Josh.  The boys loved it.  I didn't get pictures of everything, but it had pool, video games, a play room, air hockey and some game the boys loved, but I have now idea what in the world it was (neither did they, they just made something up, but it was fun!)

McKay totally thinks he is one of the big boys.  It is so cute to see him jump right in with them all.

 That night the hotel hosted s'mores on the patio.  It was AWESOME!  Once again another first.  All of the trees around the patio were decorated in white lights and the ambiance was just perfect.

 The boys loved roasting marshmallows over this huge outdoor fire.

It was so fun.  We didn't end up staying overnight as the boys had school the next day.  We headed back down to our house while Josh stayed for the last day of his conference.

The next day I dropped the boys off with my awesome sister (where they were in heaven to be spending the night.  She is pretty fun), and headed back up to Park City to go to a dinner with Josh for his conference.  It was lovely and the food was awesome.  It was fun to see some old friends that Josh has worked with over the years.

 After dinner we ducked out to go to a movie.  We went to see "Lincoln".  We didn't know anything about the movie except that it got good reviews, and we fell in love with it.  Obviously we are huge Lincoln fans as we named one of our sons after him, but after seeing the movie I loved him that much more.  Such a must see.

The boys (and my) favorite part about this hotel was the funicular that you have to take to get up to it.  It is a windowed car that goes up and down a track from the lobby to the main part of the hotel.  It was pretty fun.

Later that day I headed to The Nutcracker with my friend Kristen (one of my favorite traditions), and the boys headed to my brother's house for the USU football game.  It was SUCH  fun weekend!

The Boys 1st Time Skiing

 The boys got their skis and ski passes for Christmas and Josh was DYING to get them skiing.  Two days after Christmas they finally got the chance to go.

 Josh loves skiing and for years we have been hoping to teach our boys (I am not a great skier, but I have always wanted my boys to be better than me).  Josh got them into a ski class and he hit the slopes.  By the time they were done with their class, Josh felt that they had done really well.

 Wolf Creek is the perfect place for kids to learn to ski.  There is plenty of space that isn't too steep, but steep enough to give them the momentum they need.

Josh has been such a trooper, every time we go skiing he skis with McKay.  That has been both fun, and NOT so fun (when McKay doesn't get a nap it isn't so fun).

 The best part about it the "Magic Carpet," so the boys didn't have to do a lift until they were ready.

 I am sad to say I haven't really taken very many more pictures through the season than these.  Since these, the boys have taken an after school and have gotten really good.  They are in the advanced class and I have been so impressed with them.

 They are already going down Black Diamond runs, which is WAY beyond me!

 As a family we have gone skiing nearly every Saturday since Christmas and many weekdays as well.  It has been my favorite winter ever, I am actually so sad for the snow to go because that means we can't go skiing anymore!

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We have had such a great time, I need to get more pictures to document it!