Thursday, November 28, 2013
Thanksgiving Day
Finally the big day arrived! Addy's Birthday. She requested pineapple pancakes for her Birthday Breakfast and Turkey for lunch. I was happy to oblige.
Steve has an employee, Jose Luis who moved from South America a few months ago and his family was able to move here and join him just a few days before Thanksgiving. We had them over for their first ever Thanksgiving dinner.
Aside from experiencing their first Thanksgiving Dinner, they also received Black Friday training.
Alaina received her Black Friday training too.
Of course there was football. Which just now reminded me that Bart and Sam were so disappointed that our ward and my mom's ward didn't do a Turkey Bowl (old men playing football Thanksgiving Day morning) that they just drove around until they found a random ward playing (we do live in Utah) and joined in the game. Anyway, I wasn't too interested in the game on screen but I was interested in putting my feet up after a long day of cooking.
Alaina sharing her snack with Auntie Lauren.
While our family appointed photographer was here, we all wanted her to take family pictures for Christmas cards. By the time we realized that this was probably our only opportunity, since she was getting on a plane and heading back to Texas the next day, we were about to lose all daylight. So we ran outside and Farrah very kindly took pictures of each family. They all turned out great.
Since we didn't have much time before we lost all light this was a quick affair. Emily and I decided what everyone was going to wear and got everyone dressed in about 5 minutes and then Farrah spent about 5 minutes taking pictures. We had one unwilling participant who we pretty much had to threaten and drag outside to take pictures. This person was unwilling to change his shirt, put on shoes and I was not aware of this until after, but he was also unwilling to make a normal face in the majority of the pictures. I saw the thumbnail of this picture the next day on the computer and loved it until I opened it and saw the face he was making in it. I'm sure the neighbors heard me when I yelled out his name in an angry fashion upon opening this picture.
That's ok though. I found one I loved even more and I'm kinda glad the above picture didn't work out, although Zac thought I should still use it. I think it turned out fabulous for a 10 minute effort. Thank you Farrah!
The picture made a lovely Christmas card and I also had it blown up and printed for our Family Theme "iStand" for 2014.
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