We had Thanksgiving with the Cherry's this year, up in Park City. Taylor offered up his place, which we had never been to. It was really spacious. We had a very yummy dinner, including Shelby and Steve's delicious sweet potatoes that to me, tasted like pumpkin pie. Someone also made
homemade cranberry sauce which is currently in my refrigerator awaiting a way for me to use it again because it was fabulous. Everything tasted great. The kids were all able to play in the snow for awhile. As you can see, there was snow, but the temperature was very mild. Just nice and crisp; we even went without coats, just for a little while. While playing out in the snow the first time around, Carter rolled up a snowball and launched it at Savannah who was pretty far away. I don't think any of us thought it would actually hit her, but sure enough it did, right in the shoulder. No tears thankfully, but she was like HEY!! Then she realized that she could throw them herself too!! A small snowball fight
ensued. After awhile Savannah was like, "My hands are cold!" The other fun thing for Savannah was that almost everyone had there dogs there, totalling five. Cooper reacted really well to them too and would smile when they came up to him. We were worried he might freak out or something since he'd never been around a dog before. It was really great too because all of Carter's siblings were there.
Cooper holding his first snowball.
This was one of my favorite pictures of the day (along with the first post picture of Cooper).
Playing with swords/sticks with Aunt Caren. Savannah then broke out into a song from
Mulan.
I'm guessing that Savannah was the instigator in this one.
Some of us eating the grub. Do you see who made a special guest appearance?
That's right, Jacob. Or Taylor
Lautner. It was freaking a lot of us out during the day cause we'd see someone in the corner of our eye just standing there. Speaking of Taylor's, we watched Taylor Swifts
SNL "monologue" from a few weeks back and that was pretty funny.
Parker and
Buzzy taking a nap.
So the funnest and funniest part of the day was Caren's rap. What was she rapping about? Me. I was officially made a Cherry Girl. Official and all. I've got a paper to prove it with all my sisters
signatures on it. It was so sweet of them to do that and I wasn't expecting it at all. I always wanted a sister and now I have five. It's so awesome.
We tried to take some family pictures but this was the best we got.
Most turned out like this. Don't you love Savannah?
At least these are cute....r
What a fine little specimen you are Cooper.
Cooper crashed on Shelby at one point later in the evening. Pretty cute.
It was a really fun day and it really wasn't too bad of a drive. And we were really thankful that it didn't snow because we probably wouldn't have driven in it.
Carter had to work at 4:45 am on Black Friday and I decided that I wanted to brave the crowds at 5 am. I took Carter to work and then headed back out to the Walmart in Saratoga Springs by 5 am and met my parents. Talk about crazy. People going crazy over pajamas. No where to move. Carts really shouldn't be allowed. I got some pajamas for the kids, a few movies that I had previously stashed (i'm so bad), a price match on one of Savannah's presents and I randomly found a $4 picture card that had been marked down and someone left near the registers that was for my camera and holds a lot more photos than my current one! Score. Luckily I had my parents with me though to help wrangle the kids, otherwise I would have probably stashed my stuff and come back later in the day. The wait was like 5 hours. Whatever. My Dad went over to the gardening area to see if there registers were open and sure enough they were. We still waited about 45 minutes though because.....well....Walmart isn't Target. That's putting it politely. So then we went to Target. Most everything I wanted was gone, but I did find a game and a movie. It was insane at Target too. I saw Carter at one point trying to unpack a cart of stuff and fill up shelves. I noticed a line all the way back in toys where he works. I was like, "Is the line all the way back here?" He said yes. Probably another 5 hour wait. Not gonna happen. At least they had some kind of order there though and you could tell where the line was. Walmart was madness everywhere and no apparent line. My Mom had the kids and went to the jewelry counter checkout. Genius. We waited maybe a half hour there. We got so lucky with lines that day. Thank goodness. I can understand getting up early to get good deals, but waiting 4-5 hours to actually purchase them is certifiably insane. Afterward we went for breakfast at McDonalds and let Savannah play around for awhile. After that we went back to my parents house for awhile and hung out. My Dad's parents were in town for Thanksgiving so we got to see them a few times. Savannah did lots of dancing and tickling with Grandpa and kept calling Grandma "the other Grandma". That was pretty funny. We picked Carter up at 1:30 pm and headed to Kohl's where we got some insane deals also. We found one thing cheaper than we'd already bought it, another thing that we'd been looking for for awhile and had a coupon for and a few other things. I had a "spend $20, get $10 off" coupon, plus a $5 off coupon and a 15% off coupon. We walked out of there for $15 and got two larger toys, Carter a pair of pajama bottoms and a small item. I LOVE getting a good deal. I tell Carter all the time that I want to be a personal shopper for someone. We came home and were so wiped out and off schedule that we took a nap. Savannah slept from 5pm-10pm and then was wide awake. haha. We let her stay up and we watch the Christmas movie "Elf". Such a great movie. It was a great end to a busy and fun weekend.
On Sunday night we went up to Temple Square to see the lights with some of the family. We bundled up and braved the cold.
Cooper was not happy being in the stroller so Carter held him half the time.
