Burley

Saturday night we got to Burley to visit my parents and grandparents. We enjoyed a lovely relaxing weekend with my family. It was nice to see them since we will be missing out on Thanksgiving and Christmas this year thanks to a job in retail. I have tons of great pictures because my mom never misses a picture moment.

Visiting great grandpa Bruce and great grandma Dora:
Maddie looking through grandma's giant magnifying glass-



giant towers-

All the cousins will be doing the Swedish Christmas, Santa Lucia the day after Thanksgiving. Since we won't be there my mom let Sophie and Maddie dress up ahead of time. Garen wanted nothing to do with it.

getting some homework done since she missed 3 days of school-

some other fun moments-

I had to give Sophie a piece of licorice, it was the only way to make her stop crying!

Monday my friend Alisha came over (we forgot to get a picture :(). It was fun to visit with her and see her kids.

Then we headed home about 1:00. We stopped in Syracuse at Sara's house to take a little break from the car. Thanks for letting us run around your house, play the Wii, and eat your banana bread, Sara! Then we were off again. We made it to Evanston before we had to stop again to take a break and get some dinner. The kids got their wiggles out in the McDonald's playplace. Andy did a great job getting us home safely through all that black ice.

I thought it was funny as we came through the tunnel by Green River, Maddie was trying to convince Garen that it was a time travel tunnel and that we were going to end up someplace else.

I made the mistake of turning our heat off before we left and when we pulled in last night at 9pm the temperature in our house was about 45-burrrr! We quickly turned it way up and put everyone in warm PJ's for bed.

It did make me think, as I was changing Sophie ad she had a little shiver and I rushed to get her warm clothes back on, how did the pioneers do that? It was windy and about 15 degrees outside and I was sad to see Sophie cold for about 30 seconds. I can't even comprehend how awful that would be to try and keep your baby warm all night in freezing temperatures! This Thanksgiving I am thankful I can feed, clothe, and keep my babies warm!