Happy Thanksgiving!

We went to Delta this year for Thanksgiving to spend time with Jon's family. Nathan has been calling "New Grandma" every night for the last few weeks and was so excited to go to her house. (I'm not sure why Nathan started calling her "New Grandma," but my mom is wondering if that makes her "Old Grandma!") We hit quite a bit of traffic on our way up, but we finally made it to Delta Thursday afternoon in time for dinner.

The dinner was delicious and the best part was that I didn't have to make anything for it! Thanks to the Drapers for letting us just show up and eat.

There was a small casualty after dinner. Jake and Nate went in the other room to play and knocked one of the pumpkin pies onto the floor. I felt really bad, but was secretly relieved that it wasn't one of their nice decorations broken on the floor!

Somehow it has become a tradition for Jon and I to take a picture together at the table during Thanksgiving dinner so here's this year's picture!

The next day Jon's sisters, Annie and Heidi and I headed up to Provo to do some after Thanksgiving sale shopping. It was so much fun and we found some good deals.

Meanwhile Jon and the boys stayed back in Delta. Jon's mom had been saving bags of leaves ever since we told her we were coming. I think she had more than 25 bags of leaves! The time finally came for the boys to dump them out and jump in them and they were so excited.

I told Jon to make sure that he took lots of pictures and apparently he took his job very seriously because he ended up taking around 250! These are just a few of my favorites.

Where's Nathan?!!!

Max wanted in on the action!

Kathryn and Marc helped with the kids while I was gone. Sorry you didn't get your paper done, Kathryn, but I'm sure that quality time with your nephews was much more important!

Jake and Nathan liked playing on Jon's dad's truck that is affectionately known to the family as "Elmer!"

The next day we went down to the Delta city center and walked around the Festival of Trees. There were some really cute trees and some not so cute ones, but overall I was very impressed and hope that some day my tree will be half as cute as any of those trees!

The boys thought it was fun to walk around and see all of the trees and gingerbread houses. Jon's mom made one of the houses and it turned out so cute. Hers is the one covered in chocolate- now that's my kind of gingerbread house!

Another failed attempt at a family picture where everyone is looking and smiling. I am bound and determined that we will get one eventually if we just keep trying!

We then went back to the house and just hung out and relaxed. It's always so nice when we are around Jon's family because they are so helpful with the kids. I actually was able to take a nap one day and sleep in another day- both very rare things for me!

I love this kid's cheeks and his smile. Even with an ear infection he was still a happy kid most of the trip.

That night we walked down to Main Street to watch the annual Delta City Light Parade. The boys loved seeing all of the lights and had fun just being outside and running around.

After the parade we headed back to the city center and waited in line for over an hour so the boys could sit on Santa's lap. Unfortunately, by the time it was our turn both Jake and Max were asleep so Nathan was the ony one who sat on his lap. He told Santa that he wants alphabet letters for Christmas. Should be easy enough!

We packed up and left early this morning to drive back home to California. We apparently didn't leave early enough since we still hit horrible traffic. It took us 12 hours to make a 9 hour drive. Thankfully the boys did really well, but I was a different story! I hate sitting in traffic.

Overall it was a really fun, relaxing weekend. It was so good to see Jon's family and to get to spend some time with them. Now I am so excited for Christmas and all of the fun festivities that come along with it. Stay tuned...