Our Thanksgiving holiday started on November 23rd when Garry, Heidi and their family arrived via Mesa where they were visiting Heidi's family before visiting us. Once they arrived the children were ecstatic to be out of the car and finally at a destination where they wouldn't have to ride another mile for a few days. Our first order of business was figuring out the sleeping arrangements. Luckily our back room was big enough for four beds. All of them sleeping together in the same room wasn't the most ideal, but it wasn't bad. Other than waking each other up early in the morning, it was pretty good.
The kids loved the trampoline. They were out jumping a lot during the whole trip. They even talked their dad into jumping with them. That of course is more fun than jumping alone.
They were all acting kind of silly but they made us laugh.
We had a great dinner on Thanksgiving and then later that night we went to visit the Terry's and the kids had a great time playing with their cousins.
On Friday, we had a lot of pomegranites to squeeze. Brother Rawson, a friend of ours, made a machine that does a fabulous job so we always go to his house and we help him help us. The children were so interested in watching this whole process.
Gavin in particular was intent on helping.
Zach helped out washing the pomegranites before they were juiced.
Tyler also did some washing.
Lexi stood in the back of our van and helped put the pomegranites into buckets.
Gavin loved loading the fruit into the hopper and watching it squeeze them.
After they were juiced, Zach helped fill up the cartons. We got 13 gallons of juice off of one tree. I think this will always be something they will remember. They found out that they all loved pomegranite juice.
Alyssa, brother Rawson's granddaughter, happened to ride by while we were there and offered to take the kids for a little ride. They were all excited to see and ride the horse.
After juicing our pomegranites, mom, Gavin, Lexi and I went to the cemetery to decorate my dad's, Bonnie and Heather's graves. The Littles had fun helping there as well.
After returning from the cemetery, we started doing some projects around the house. Duane borrowed a metal detector so he could find a buried sleeve for our tetherball we had a few years back. Zachary found it and so Duane uncovered it and we were able to put our tetherball up again.
Garry, Tyler, and Duane put up the Christmas lights. After a while we were able to get them all working.
In the evening, we had a birthday party for Gavin. He will turn 4 next Wednesday, on the 30th, so we had a barbeque and ate outside. It was a beautiful day but after the sun set, it got a little cold so after dinner we went inside to have the birthday pie.
Gavin blew out the candles (4 for his birthday and the one in the middle played Happy Birthday). We didn't count that as one of the four.
We had pie and then...
Gavin was able to open his presents. He got a bat and ball, a glove and a helmet. He's now outfitted for being a star tee-ball player.
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happy thanks giving
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