Thanksgiving Weekend

We spent the Thanksgiving weekend in Salt Lake City.
Our trip to Salt Lake came with 4 main objectives.
1. Build a fence at the house for Spence and Aly's dog Roxy.
2. Spend some quality time with Jessica, Spencer, Aly and Will.
3. Enjoy Thanksgiving dinner with the family.
4. Go to a Jazz game.
Jami drove up to Salt Lake a few days early to take some things to Spencer and Aly, and I flew up on Thanksgiving morning early.

We were really happy that dad felt up to attending dinner, as he had not been feeling too well earlier in the week.

It was really great to have lots of Jami's family around!

When you plan for dinner for 40 you had better have a big place to hold everyone, so we were glad that Lorie could arrange for us to use her church building for the afternoon.

Spencer and Aly spent the afternoon up at her brother's house in Roy, and Jessica couldn't get away from school this year so we were still missing our family for Thanksgiving dinner. Jami and I did get to go down to Provo early afternoon on Thanksgiving to see Jessica and spend a few hours with her which was the highlight of our day!!!!

Since I didn't get the chance to cook anything, I got to keep with my holiday tradition and do the dishes. By the end of the day, I was ready for bed!!!

On Friday afternoon Jami, Spencer, Aly, Will and I drove down to Provo to spend the evening with Jessica. It was so much fun to all be together as a family again! We laughed, talked and had dinner together before taking our anual family Christmas picture together.

Jesssica loves spending time with her nephew. I get the feeling she is going to spoil him for many years to come! Since I don't get the chance to be with him very much either, I took the opportunity to hold him for a while myself.

On Saturday we continued to work on the fence, and Jessica got the chance to leave school for a few hours to spend some free time with the family. We went up to Salt Lake where we were able to have lunch together, get to the store to buy her some necessities, and let her get the chance to see her grandpa before going back to Provo.

On Saturday night we took Will to his first Jazz game. It was really noisy, and he didn't like that too much, but thanks to Jami's sister Lynne, we got invited to watch the second half of the game from the Huntsman luxury box.

Will was very happy, even though the Jazz didn't play very well, and ended up loosing to New Jersey.

By the way, the fence got finished! Jami and I did a pretty good job if we do say so ourselves!!!! The trip home on Sunday was a marathon, as we left Salt Lake at 6:30 am, and didn't arrive in Bakersfield until shortly after 9:00 pm. We stopped for sacrament meeting in Mesquite Nevada, and made great time until we hit Las Vegas, and then our normal 4 hour drive turned into an 8 1/2 hour trip home. We loved the trip, hated the drive.