Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving at the cabin with my family this year and had an amazing day. Our feast was perfect in every way and the company was too. I managed to grab some pics here and there but not always on my own camera--oops! My mom and sis and I have the same camera so it makes sense that I grabbed the wrong one...no?
 

 Stacey, Livs and Mason watching Cars 2 before our big meal

The day was so mild yesterday, even up the canyon. We didn't pack "real" snow clothes for the kids knowing there wasn't much up at the cabin yet, but of course the big boys wanted to play with the snowball maker and get outside for a bit after our feast, so all the little kids wanted to join in on their fun.

Bentley, Ethan and Will stayed outside with Joseph long after the littler ones had gotten too wet or too cold or fallen on the slippery ice. They found some hammers and shovels and went to work removing the icy layer that had formed on the driveway. 2 hours later they came inside feeling so proud of their work and worn out from all the manual labor.

I have to say that I am so grateful for these boys in my Bentley's life. They are the closest thing he will ever have to big brothers and they love him and play with him so well. He is in boy heaven when we get to hang with Horsley cousins!

We all spent the night at the cabin last night eating pie and more pie, playing some very tricky Trivial Pursuit (for Joseph and me anyway—Japan no Tonga, Italy no Greece...) and messing around with Tye's new iPhone. We made the silly choice of introducing him to the Talking Carl app at like 11:00 pm last night. Let me just say that Carl is absolutely hilarious at that time of night—we were laughing so hard at all his responses that I thought I might go into labor and pee my pants all at the same time! Oh it was good fun—crazy hard to laugh that hard with like 1% of my ab strength left—but such fun...the tears were just streaming down my face. Good times :)

I am grateful for so many things in my life, one of them being this blog where I aim to regularly capture my most beloved people, memories and places. I do feel extremely grateful to have so very much, but truly feel most blessed because of my husband and gorgeous, snuggly children, my parents and siblings and their darling growing families, all of my amazing in-laws, and my faith, my Savior and the peace His Gospel brings to my life. These are my richest blessings and I will forever be indebted to the Lord for them.