The blues at Thanksgiving

Just a few highlights and photos from our ordeal of a Thanksgiving but totally worth it!


The Allen brothers at their best- watching football!




Lots of cousins to play with.


What's a Thanksgiving without olive fingers on someone?


Lots of games were played- I was even able to play a game without the kiddos around!


Melissa looking through the ads- we had fun staying up all night and I must say it was easier with the spread sheet she made- yes a spread sheet! Who would have thought? We got some great deals!


We were able to finally meet Gray. What a cutie!


Connor has grown fast and I don't mean tall!


Jakers all smiles for turkey!


As far as the ordeals- This was our weather for the drive up and back! We expected the Blues to be like this but not the whole way! Our 10 hour trip took 17 hours (thank you to eight new movies - the kids did great!) The road was closed on the way home at burley to ogden! We had to go up to pocatello- adding about 2 hours to the trip! We counted 32 slide offs, a jackknifed semi, and a pickup teetering on the edge of a guardrail! The weather was cold (-10) while we were there and Chuck and Lora may never have us back- We froze their pipes and happened to get some kind of stomach bug which most of us were throwing up! (Thank you Mcdonalds in pendelton- the half that didn't get sick had chicken. No one outside of our immediate family got sick! Also a thanks to Laurie who called to tell us that alarms were going off in our house back home! Once we made it home we were confronted with a car that wouldn't start and the alarms that tripped the breaker in the house and took some doing to get them to stop! Going to work that night was actually relaxing! So after re reading all of this and thinking back on it - yeah I would do it again. We had some great times with Ben's family and crazy enough it did feel like a vacation! So Happy Thanksgiving- two weeks late - was yours as memorable as ours?!!!!