Thanksgiving Weekend

What a fun and exhausting weekend. Let me give a quick recap. Thursday we enjoyed a delicious dinner at Kathy and Byron's house. We then celebrated Grandma Garbett and Dad's birthdays. Afterwards we headed to Mom and Dad's to finish making our plan of attack for Black Friday.
Nate and I left the house at the insane hour of 4am. We went to Walmart, Fred Meyer, Sears, JCPenneys, Gottchalks, and Walgreens all by 9am. (Thanks for watching the kids Mom.) We were able to get most everything we wanted, and I am happy to say we are officially done with our Christmas shopping.
Friday afternoon to went to Hulse's for haircutting, a trip to the Gingerbread bake-off, another delicious Thanksgiving dinner, family pictures, and lots of visiting. I was running on probably only about 5 hours of sleep since about Tuesday night. After dropping the kids off at Terra's I still had to go make cheesecake for Saturday. I fell asleep before they were finished. Nate put them in the fridge and headed off to play games. He got back about 3:30am.
Saturday we went to Terra's to get the kids and enjoy breakfast together. Then we made our gingerbread houses.
About 1pm we rushed back to Mom and Dad's to finish throwing together a salad, change the kids clothes, and grab everything we needed for the Miles/Garbett Holiday party. We had a great time getting to see people we haven't seen for a while. They had an auction; Kayla was thrilled to come home with some fun stamps. I hope Andrea will enjoy the necklace I made.
Sunday Allie woke up sick, again. I nominated Papa, the sickest adult, to stay home while the rest of us enjoyed church. It is funny how some wards everybody leaves for the holidays and others all the kids come to visit. My parents ward is definately one that grows around the holidays. They had to bless the water 3 different times to get enough and the bread twice. The sacrament took so long, one of the speakers was asked to wait and give her talk another time.
Then Amy and Tyler (her boyfriend) and Angie, Cory, and the boys came over for dinner and games. We had fun finally getting to play together for a little while.
I am very thankful for all the time we had to spend enjoying everybody's company this weekend. It was tons of fun! I am anxiously looking forward to seeing everybody again. (Our door is always open-You can visit us too. Hint! Hint!)