Thanksgiving in SLC

For Thanksgiving we went to SLC, Utah this year. It has been a long time since we went to SLC for Thanksgiving. We went from Monday night (technically due to a bunch of flight delays, we landed early Tuesday morning) to Monday so we had plenty of time to visit everyone we wanted without feeling like we were being rushed from place to place trying to fit everyone in.

Here are some of the fun things we did while we were there!

We hung out with Alex and went to breakfast, played some pool and shuffleboard at Trolley Square, drove through a snowstorm to get to his house, hung out at his house (a bunch), and played a never-ending game of Monopoly on the Wii.

We visited with my mom and took her out to lunch at Crown Burger and then to watch the movie Burlesque (with Julianne Hough)!

We visited with Peter's Grandma at her apartment.

We visited with the Foote family a few times and had yummy dinners, played games, and enjoyed each other's company!

On Thanksgiving we stopped first at Grandma Nelson's house to visit her and to have a slice of pie. :) YUMMY!!! Peter enjoyed her Pumpkin and I enjoyed the chocolate. We then headed to Alex's and helped make Thanksgiving dinner there. We had SO MUCH FOOD! I could have been overstuffed just on the snack food/appetizers that were out before the main meal. After dinner, the adults played games. It was a great Thanksgiving because all of Peter's siblings were there.

I made my traditional rolls. They always turn out amazing (thanks to Michal Thomas for the best recipe EVER!).

Let's eat!

Mariah

Felisha

Payton, Lola, and Jaxton

Uncle Peter and Jaxton

Uncle Peter and Lola

Playing UNO after dinner.

Another fun thing we did was go bowling with Peter's siblings and their kids - - AND GRANDMA! We stopped first at Chuck-a-rama for lunch where I was disappointed in how the memory of Chuck-a-rama was far better than the actual food. Then we went bowling (all except Grandma) and had a fun afternoon.

Here are all the neices and nephews (only one not there was Harleigh)

Top Row: Mariah, Morgan?, Felicia
Second Row: Korben, Madison?, Payton
Front Row: Jaxton and Lola

Here's the siblings with Grandma: Peter, Alex, Gram, Aja and Mark

Before our time was over we got to have lunch at Grandma Nelson's house and visited with Grandma and Grandpa Blank.

It was a fun week where we accomplished everything we wanted inspite of the cold/snowy weather. (Reminder to self - getting a hotel, while more expensive, really is worth it.)

Here's a couple pictures of the snow. We had wanted to go visit the lights on Temple Square but we were certainly not prepared to walk around in weather like this so driving by in the car was as close as we got.