Thanksgiving

We had a nice relaxing Thanksgiving. Sophie woke up with bed head for the first time, it looks pretty tame in the picture but it really was pretty crazy. We thought it was great that she had enough hair for it to get messed up! We just laid around all morning and then decided to go for a jog at noon. This is a picture of Sophie all bundled up to go jogging, she could harldy move with all of these layers plus a quilt and a sleeping bag thing in the stroller. But it was necessary because it was so COLD! That evening we got together with a couple of our friends from the ward to have Thanksgiving dinner. It was nice not to have to make the whole Thanksgiving spread just for Dan and I. Plus I enjoyed sharing the holiday with others, isn't that what Thanksgiving is about? Bringing people together? We had good food and conversation then played a couple games.

I did a little shopping the day after Thanksgiving, but not until 9am... my mom and sisters usually go closer to 5, but without them here, I couldn't find the motivation. I found a few good deals though. Dan was at school for 12 hours that day (NERD!) and I think he was the only one there. Hard to believe he'd rather study than shop huh? The highlight of our Thanksgiving was when my little sister Jenny arrived the day after. She went to Salt Lake for Thanksgiving day but we got her on her way home to Houston the day after. She usually has a lay over in Denver anyway and it ended up saving her money to buy two tickets (one to SL and one to Denver). She got here too late that night to catch Sophie before bed time so the above picture is of them together the following morning. Sophie seemed to remember her aunt Jenny and they got along great! We were so glad to have her and she seemed to be really excited to see Sophie. I love having visitors and Jenny is the best kind because she is so helpful, I think I could use an extra set of hands on a permanent basis! :)



On Saturday we had a good time watching the BYU vs. Utah game. We had a Jason and Ellen over (Jason is in law school with Dan) along with Jenny cheering for the Y with Dan, Sophie and I rooting for the U. BYU won, but we enjoyed an excuse to order pizza and get together. Sophie found a new favorite during the game, celery sticks!

That night Jenny and I enjoyed playing with Sophie and taking these funny pictures of her sucking on the glass door to the porch. The flash is pretty annoying and you can see how dirty the window is but her faces are pretty funny!



And then we really made Jenny work this morning before church when she helped us take some family pictures near our house. I think they turned out pretty good! Didn't she do a wonderful job? Here are a few of my favorites:

This is Sophie waving "hello!"