Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We had a fabulous Thanksgiving. We went to Colorado to visit my family. My youngest brother in leaving in February to serve a mission for our church. And so my Mom and Dad wanted to get us all together for a few days to have a big family hoop-la. So my Dad got us all hotel rooms close to their house so we could all get away and no one was distracted by normal life things. It was a BLAST! We had our own spaces to be in, but since we all had suites there was hang out space for everyone as well. We went out to eat for Thanksgiving dinner at Cracker Barrel. Brian and I did this last year, since we had just moved, and it was a FABULOUS thing! Other than waiting for an hour for a table....we were just able to sit back and relax the whole day. Didn't have to cook, clean, etc. It was great! We hung out, shopped, went swimming, tried to have game nights, and just had a great time together. We even ended up spending an extra night there because we had so much fun. It was a great weekend! Thanks Mom and Dad for the FUN! It was great to all be together for a few days as a family.

I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving!

Brandon and Leah also had their friend come up on Thanksgiving morning to take a big family picture. I need to get those from them and will post them when I have them. But that was fun to have a big family picture taken. So thanks for organizing that Bran and Leah!!! The pics below are just a few pics I snapped myself. The professional ones will come soon. :)

I saw the girls sitting on the steps while other pictures were being taken. I ran over there to snap some pictures.

Then we brought all the cousins together on the steps. Aren't they darling?!!!!

I got a picture of Handsome Crae. How cute is this?!?!?

Kylie with her Grandma and Grandpa Brown. Ahhhhh.....more preciousness. :)

Back to our room where sweet Lexy read to Kylie. The kids LOVED hanging with Kylie. It was so cute.

Crae with two of his girls. This was a momentary pause between running up and down the hallways. They would all pause on their imaginary start line and would say, "Ready, Set, GO!" Then they would all run down the hall. It was really sweet watching Kylie play with her cousins and having fun.

PJ hang out time. Kylie did NOT want to get dressed each day...she just wanted to hang in her PJ's. I guess you can't blame her. :)

The final night we tried ONE MORE TIME (we attempted each night, it just didn't seem to work out) to have a game night. We got some games of Candy Land in....
Yes...yes....the adults all joined in on the Candy Land fun along with the kids. But no adult games. :)

It was fun being able to lounge around with each other as well. Leah hanging and Grandpa/Dad Brown with Kaylee and Cameron hanging on the couch.