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Iowa Thanksgiving {2015}

(For starters...this was not part of our Thanksgiving trip.)

A few days before school got out we meet Preston at school for Thanksgiving lunch. So I'll go ahead and perfectly start this post by saying how thankful I am for my little boys. They are kind and sweet and full of so much love. I am Thankful everyday to be there Mother, even the rough days...I just don't usually recognize it as much until those days are over ;) Hehe

For Thanksgiving this year we packed up and headed back to Iowa.

...And this picture makes me happy because our trunk space almost can't even be called trunk space. So the fact that I packed all of our stuff in the back without having to lay down any seats made me happy enough that I had to take a picture and document it. :)

It was so good to be back in Iowa. And so good to see some of our family. The food was delicious and the pies were amazing...all 6 of them!

The Iowa Hawkeyes and the Nebraska Cornhuskers always play the day after Thanksgiving. So like...2 days before departure I had this harebrained idea that it would be totally awesome if Skyler and I could go to the game. The game was in Nebraska and with the Hawkeyes being 11-0 we couldn't really pass up on the chance to see them play so close and during such a good season.

So Skylers parents pulled and quick one and found us tickets (for an early Christmas). Pretty awesome, right?

It was FREEZING COLD. Like windchill 10degrees. But we loved it. Bundled to the brim, packed full of hand/foot warmers. We cheered on our Hawks to victory. 12-0 for the first time in history!

Thanksgiving {2014}

Happy Thanksgiving from Iowa!

This year we spent our Thanksgiving weekend with Skyler's family. Everyone was there...which is easy to come by now a days, since we are the only one's currently not living in their town.

A day with lots of yummy food. Heaps and heaps of potatoes. Time with family.

What more can you ask for, really?

Oh, and pies. Lots and lots of pies.

While dinner prep was happening, the boys and I were downstairs trying to rig up an awesome geo-track. Took forever. Ended up, well...pretty awesome!

That evening Wesley just walked over to me and laid his head down on my leg and said, "The babies going to sleep." It was pretty darn cute. First off, he hardly ever just decides to lay down and sleep. And second, Why he decided to call himself the baby?? Beyond me. But he still is my baby for a little while longer, so I'll take it. :)

One of the days after, Grandma was making Turkey noodle soup. The boys got in on the noodle making action and loved it up.

And we'll end on a random note. My sweet little Wesley and the Christmas sweater nails I painted Thanksgiving day. No reason to wait for Christmas to whip those babies out. :)

Our Thanksgiving {Recap}

Well, hello there blog world. I feel like I haven't posted in forever, probably because... I haven't posted in forever. I have been swamped with photography lately, so when I have a spare minute it's spent editing away (which I love, but I also love when I have time to document my own family happenings).

...I'll try to do better :)

(You know when people tell you Kansas is flat...just know they're not lying to you.)

We made the ever so lovely trek to Kansas to spend Thanksgiving with my family (everyone was there but my Sister). And luckily Ryan & Tayler (my little brothers) had their Eagle court of honor the same week.

We feasted, and as always it was delicious.

All the little cousins were loving having their buddies there to play with 24/7, and all the brothers were happy there were a few extra bodies willing to play a good old game of sting pong every day.

Did a few family photos while I was home. And just loved up every minute with the family.

An Iowa Thanksgiving

This year we spent Thanksgiving with Skyler's family. This was the only picture I took the whole time...can you believe it? I guess we were just having to much fun! We had everyone there except for Dallen. It was so fun spending time with the family, eating yummy food and playing games! Once again we were reminded how thankful we are to be close to family.

Thanksgiving With The Romriell's

For Thanksgiving this year we headed over to Skyler's parents for a few days. It was so nice to spend a little time with family and not have to worry about school. It was actually my first Thanksgiving spent with Skyler's parents and Skyler's brother Dallen, who got home from his mission a month ago. Skyler and Dallen played lots of chess(Skyler's favorite) and the ultimate game of the week.... Axis and Allies, that takes two full days to finish. I Was just glad Dallen was home to play with Skyler this time, last time we played that game I only lasted the first day.

I made these little turkey's to sit at everyones plate(filled with reese's pieces) not remembering that Prest doesn't eat peanut butter...Oops. Poor little guys tried to grab hold of everyones turkey any chance he got, next time I better fill them with M&M's.

We played lots of other fun games and ate lots of good food! Dena let everyone put in a request for there favorite pie, so there ended up being 5 pies. I kept saying I was going to take a picture of everyone holding there pie but...we ate them up before I did. They were delicious as always, we had Cherry(Skyler's) Apple (Mine) Pecan (Dallen) Chocolate Peanut Butter (Farrell) Chocolate Cream (...Dallen) and Banana Cream (Dena & Preston).

Yes that is Chief on the counter, he traveled with us this year. We couldn't spend Thanksgiving without him. He played a pretty big roll this year, reminding us to always be thankful for everything we are blessed with.

The Turkey Hunt

This year Since Skyler can't go real Turkey hunting, I decided to put on a little turkey hunt of our own for family home evening. I made a little turkey and a couple targets, probably spent way to much time drawing my turkey but I was having so much fun! Taped them all over the wall and started our hunt.

I saw a picture of these little marshmallows shooters and thought they would be perfect guns to hunt our turkey's. They worked so good, and when you got hit with them it actually stung a little. We were very impressed!

Skyler won the hunt, I only shot the turkey once....it was way harder than it looked. Preston was in heaven, every time a marshmallow would land on the ground he would run a shove it in his mouth before we could get to it. He also loved pulling the "trigger" to launch the bullets, he was pretty impressed when he saw he launched the marshmallows. To bad we weren't able to bring home a real turkey for dinner, but we sure did hunt those paper ones down.

Gobble till you Wobble

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The countdown begins...…27 days till Christmas!

But before we get to ahead of ourselves, here’s a recap of our Thanksgiving week. We were so excited to have Skyler out of school for a whole week to spend time with the family. Usually Preston only see’s Skyler for an hour or two a day, needless to say, this week he got very attached to his dad. We played lots of games and watched the beautiful snow fall every day!

And what better thing to do while stuck in the house during a blizzard warning....

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MONOPOLY! We played a very short game of monopoly, the end result Skyler $6,680 Brooke $-400+ It was a sound whooping, like always.

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On Wednesday we slid our way into Utah on the snow covered roads to get together with the Steel family for Thanksgiving. There were about 75 people and there were 3 big families and then some. We had lots of fun and loved seeing all of the family that we never get to see.

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My cousin, Mandi, made these incredible turkey cupcakes; my favorite of all of the desserts for sure. They were so cute and looked so real you almost didn’t dare eat them.

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And the man that brought us all together...Grandpa Steel. We sure do love these guys!

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Preston ate all of the good Thanksgiving foods, but the candy yams were his favorite.

And after the dinner...a very entertaining talent show.

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Preston gobbled till he wobbled...Holding that stuffed belly after a delicious meal.

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving, and missed all of our family that we weren’t able to see. We hope you all had a great holiday, and ate lots of yummy food till you were stuffed like a turkey!

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