The Force was with us on Thanksgiving.

Since we already had our Thanksgiving dinner needs satisfied, we asked the kids what they would like to do that day. We had several ideas, make taffy, and go camping in the RV, but the resounding winner was to have a Star Wars movie marathon. So that was what we did. They wanted to watch all six movies in one day, but I wasn't up for that. So we watched the first movie on Wednesday night, then movies two three and four on Thursday. We finished with Episode 5 on Friday and six on Saturday afternoon. It was a great Thanksgiving weekend activity! We really enjoyed watching all the movies and being together as a family. Now they are campaigning for a Harry Potter Marathon next year. On Thursday we were also able to go visit my Grandma for a while. We boycotted the traditional turkey and had a great ham and baked potato dinner followed by a delicious blackberry cheesecake dessert.

Thanksgiving Premonitions

We had thanksgiving dinner early this year. My cousin had her traditional Thanksgiving dinner at her house this year a little early since she and nearly everyone else would be out of town on Thanksgiving. So on November 13th, we had the whole thanksgiving day, turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potatoes, and of course, pumpkin pie. Everyone was there, the Malmrose family, Aunt Jeanne, Uncle Greg and Aunt Joyce, the Kirk Broberg family and Susan Broberg with her family. The only thing that was missing was the after dinner football game in the backyard! Afterwards, we felt that our Thanksgiving needs had been satisfied for the year, one dinner is enough for us. So we voted to have our very own Thanksgiving this year sans turkey!

Anniversary

Since I have been enjoying playing volleyball so much lately, Jeff thought it would be fun to go to a college volleyball game for our anniversary. It was a wonderful idea. We went down to Cal Lutheran University (about a half hour away) to watch the Division 3 tournament. It just so happened that the home team was playing. We were able to cheer them on to a victory. We topped off the evening with a dinner of Mongolian Barbeque. It was like a buffet, we selected the frozen meat, vegetables, noodles and sauce, then they fried it on a huge skillet while we waited. It was a lot of fun, and very tasty. It was a great date.

Halloween

Our Halloween theme this year was Tangled. Allie was Rapunzel, Maddie was Mother Gothel, Gabe was Flynn Rider and Jayd was the frying pan. We had a great time at our ward party on Friday, then trick or treating with some friends on Monday night. The kids wanted Toby to be Pascal, but I didn't think they would appreciate that at the church and I was worried about him going trick or treating. So we found a stuffed substitute.