Our Thanksgiving Tradition

One of my FAVORITE traditions that Dan and I have done since we were engaged, is that we buy a new board game to play on Thanksgiving! We both love board games, and we both LOVE the game TICKET TO RIDE. For those of you who have never played that game, go play it! Or come to our house and play!

This year's offical Thanksgiving game is a dice expansion for any ticket to ride boards. We bought it because we knew we wouldn't be let down, and we weren't! Since we already have 2 game boards (Germany & Switzerland), this makes for a fun version. We never get bored with this game!

Maybe next year we will be adventurous and get a game that isn't a ticket to ride one? Maybe.

{Thanksgiving '08}

What an eventful couple of weeks! We hosted Thanksgiving dinner for Dan's family at our clubhouse the weekend before Thanksgiving, and despite the fact that our FrIdgE stopped working [it's still not fixed yet], our InTernEt was down, our SiNk started leaking, our DiShwAshER flodded our kitchen & our CaBLe went out 30 minutes before the highly anticipated BYU vs. UTAH game... I think that it turned out quite well!

Dan's mom had put me in charge of cooking the Turkey this year... let's just say that if we had actually stuck to that plan, it really would have been a disaster! But we did provide some mean potatoes.

Here are some pictures from the evening.... this was the first time that we took advantage of our community clubhouse. I can't wait to have my family's party there the day after Christmas!!

{FYI, Easton did have clothes on, I always make him eat in his diaper only...

less stains that way!}

We were able to get a picture with Dan's whole family!

CARS

Easton loves the Disney movie CARS! He has only seen it once (since we don't actually own it [YET]...) but he remembers it well, and LOVES it. We have "cars" pull-ups and he plays with them... I mean, drives them around and such. Now, the past couple of nights he's been insisting on sleeping with them! Silly kid.

Guess what he's getting for Christmas?

BYU [basketball]

Easton LOVED going to the game! LOVED LOVED LOVED it! We went to a couple last year, but this year was definately different.

We went to the opening basketball game at BYU last Friday. It really was a lot of fun, and there was more people that came than I expected! [maybe because it was only a dollar??]

This was where we were sitting...

But I was still able to get this shot...

Easton loved sitting in the seats by himself [he made himself comfortable].

Where did it go?

Easton is all about owies. He loves to have mommy and daddy kiss them better, and in some cases he even gets to wear a band-aid.

Today he was saying owie over and over again. He was in bright spirits, so Dan and I asked him where his owie was. He looked all around and then looked up at us and said "Where did the owie go??" and "I don't know".

I am sure another one will come along for you, Easton.

FoRgEt AbOuT ThAnKsGiVinG... We LoVe ChRiStMaS !