thanksgiving crafts

river made these cute crafts at preschool for thanksgiving!

thanksgiving + birthday gifts

again, i was sick in bed so kg and the girls joined his family for thanksgiving at her grandparents house and they had another cake for river. he didn't take any photos so i these words will have to do. however, i took these photos of some of river's birthday gifts.
while surfing online one evening river saw this gorilla and wanted it so bad so i made it happen for her birthday. :)

i think this cute baby doll carrier was gifted to her by roger's family.

river loves ice so i got her some ice cube trays.  they are cool!  they are rubbery so it's easy to get the cubes out and they are square which is fun.

super exciting post, i know.

thanksgiving at roger's

thanksgiving was spent with my family on wednesday evening as usual.  we also celebrated river's birthday.  we had signed up to feed the sister missionaries, forgetting that it was thanksgiving eve so they joined us!   and by 'we' and 'us' i mean kg and girls...i was home in bed, sick.
kg took these photos.

i was told that everyone had a delightful time and one of the sister missionaries sang a beautiful song in her native language. river enjoyed all of her birthday gifts as well so thank you family!

river's preschool thanksgiving

november 19th was river's thanksgiving feast at school.  flower was already out of school so she got to go with me and both the girls were excited about that!  it was a fun little day.

she is thankful for 'myself, sleeping, mom+dad, food'   :)

i am thankful for her!

7-layer dip and Razzleberry Pie...

...were the snacks of choice at our last stop of the Thanksgiving day.
After leaving Twin Falls we were thrilled to discover that KG's fam didn't eat until around 4:00. That meant that we could make it there in time for games and spend the rest of the evening. We went straight there from Twin, arriving at 6:30 and I'm really glad we did. We played several hands of Mexican Train Dominoes. Grandma, Grandpa and Uncle Steven hadn't met River yet so they all had their turn as well.




It was a great ending to our holiday and we are so glad we got to spend so much time with family and friends this Thanksgiving.

Stuffing and Rolls...

...were definitely my favorite things at our meal on Thanksgiving day. The Sturgill's invited us to Twin Falls to enjoy the day with their family. We followed them over and it was so fun! Since Kris and KG were driving, Jer and I texted each other most of the way, slinging banter back and forth. We were laughing so hard. It was very fun. Matt and Tyler were also in their car and we enjoyed their company throughout the day as well. It was so cute to see them holding River!
No one there had met River yet so she was passed around accordingly. And Flower was doted upon as usual. There were two boys there that she had a lot of fun with. They went on a mint leaf hunt together through the yard and played on the swing set. They also had great fun in the toy closet before ending the day watching Wall.E.
We LOVED the food. It was so good. And the company was even better. It was all very relaxing. I enjoyed being around them again while KG was just meeting Grandma, Grandpa and Julie for the first time. I just love them! There was also some friends that came that we were all meeting for the first time and getting to know. It was all lovely .
























On the way home Jer drove so Kris and I texted the entire way. We never run out of things to talk about and I love it. More laughter ensued and it sure made the ride go by faster.
We all made it back to town without incident.