Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving was a bitter sweet one. We decided that as a family we would go to Idaho to steve's side of the family. His cousin Jeremy was in town from california and he had not seen him in a few years and wanted to catch up with him, so we decided that that would be the best move. Originally we were going to be having Thanksgiving with steves parents at his Aunt Kathi's but since his cousin was here thats what we did. His parents were pretty bummed about us not being there this year. I was torn both ways because I didnt get to see any of my immediate family. My parents decided that they would go to Washington with my dads cousin Bev, so I was sad not to see them. The first Thanksgiving not seeing them was harder than I thought it would be.
Idaho was really fun in the end... we arrived at steves aunts house at midnight thanksgiving day. IT was only a three hour drive from our house but we left later than we thought. We went to bed at 1:45 and then woke up at 6 am when steves cousin jeremy came into the room to give steve a hug, which woke up kara and made it so I could not sleep anymore. so we all got up and got ready for the day bright and early. we ended up falling asleep on the couch around 8:30 and slept until 10:30, which for me was very much needed being 8 months pregnant. We then went to Aftons house (steves other cousin) and hung out with them for several hours before the actual festivities started. Steve started frying the turkey at 3:30(we cannot have Thanksgiving without the fried turkey! so much better than oven turkey) and it was done within an hour so we had to wait to eat it until six! that was torture. In the end we had a lot of amazing food, saw a lot of family from my husbands side and talked a lot about past days. On friday around noon we decided we would go check out what black friday sales were looking like at the mall and toys r us. We ended up buying as a combined gift for steve and I a Nikon D40 camera with two lenses and a bunch of ad ons for only five hundred and saved 1400! we were thrilled. At the mall we each bought two pair of jeans and I also bought two shirts, and then at toys r us KaraLynn helped us choose out the gifts she would like for christmas. since she is only two she wont remember any of them so she had fun! we finally finished up our christmas shopping for everyone except for steves mom and then the rest of the gifts to exchange between steve and I. We hung out at julies ( steves Aunt) until friday night and then headed over to aftons to spend the rest of the vacation with her. We went to her boyfriends house on saturday noght and watched a movie and let the two girls play. they had so much fun together, kara was sad to have to leave but feel asleep within a couple of minutes being in the car. We eneded up in bed at 2 am and now on sunday we are getting ready to leave for home. we didnt get out of bed until 10:30 wich felt so heavenly. everyone was at church so we are packing and getting ready to head out around two. Fun times were had by all!