Happy Thanksgiving!

This year for Thanksgiving, we made the trek to Burley, ID.

I had my own little Indian and Little Turkey.

  It was a wonderful trip, but with every trip there comes with it the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.  

The Good

1.  We got to watch Aunt Catherine (my little sis) play high school basketball.  She is a great player and we loved going to 2 of her games.  Look at that follow through! (#31)

2. Meeting up with old friends.  This is my good friend from High School, Caroline.  I also got to go out to lunch with her and a few other friends later that week.

3. Sharing a pomegranate with Papa.

4.  Hanging out with my fabulous sisters.  (We are the Good, the Bad and the Ugly..... ha ha).

5. Spending time with cousins!!

6. Great food on Thanksgiving Day!

7.  The weather was beautiful- sunny and not cold!  We enjoyed a lot of time outdoors and the weather was perfect for driving.

The Bad

1. Mitchell refused to nap, except for a few times, and every time he was put down for nap or bed time he would SCREAM and scream until he'd finally drop into an exhausted sleep (for a few minutes).

2. Chloe would NOT listen to Ben or me.  She was having a blast playing with cousins and aunts, uncles and grandparents, which was great, but did not want a thing to do with us.  Obedience was a frustrating issue....

3.  Mitchell was into everything!  He would take things and hide them all over the house, pull things off shelves, and was under everyone's toes.  Here he shows his climbing and standing tricks- a true danger baby.

4.  My children are obsessed with the neighbor's horses.  This is good, but bad because Chloe was CONSTANTLY begging someone (anyone) to take her to see/feed the horses- she would ask multiple times a day.

They sure were cute with them, though...... This obsession is also bad if they start requesting horses for Christmas or birthday gifts some year.......

5.  Along with asking to go feed the horses every hour, Chloe begged someone to jump on the trampoline with her every 10 minutes.  She is more obsessed with the tramp than anything else.  Grandma, Ben and Aunt Amanda and Aunt Catherine were more than kind to jump with her multiple times during the week.  It is cute that she loves to jump and be outside, but her constant requests got..... annoying.  And she refused to put on a coat each and every time (where the obedience issues kicked in to high gear).....

The Ugly

Mitchell decided to fill his pants on the road trip to Idaho.  We could smell it in the car and knew it probably wasn't going to be pretty, so we decided to pull over and change him.  Of course, it was in the middle of nowhere and the only place to pull over was a scenic overlook.  It looked bad when we first pulled him out of the car seat......

But THIS is what we discovered when we opened his pants!  It was not a pretty picture.  Keep in mind there was no changing table to put him on, and we were outside and it was FREEZING that day.  It was definitely UGLY.