Another successful Turkey Day!

HHappy Thanksgiving to everyone! We are in Cedar City for Thanksgiving this year. So far, it has been a great one. We drove to Cedar Tuesday night and the next morning Maren woke up with what we affectionately call "Gooey Eye Disease" (GED for the rest of this blog-not to be confused with FED, or Funky Eye Disease, Jacque). Avery had it on Sunday, Maren got it Wednesday, and little Ryan now has it. It is lots of fun and if anyone would like it as a special gift for Christmas, call me and our kids will do lunch.

I was in charge of pies this year-my choice because I LOVE to make pies. So all Wednesday night was spent preparing pies for the big day. We made pumpkin, apple, pumpkin cheesecake and chocolate cream. Yummy. I read once in a how to get your kid to eat book that you should just let your kids eat their dessert first because they will still eat their other food if you do. Yeah right they'll eat the other food too. Although we've adopted the "just eat dessert all day" policy. At least I have. It's the holidays for crying out loud!

Thursday morning my dad saddled up the ol' horse Spiffy and we all took a ride. I personally am not the biggest horse fan. It could be because I got bucked off once on a date in college. Or it could be because of my dad's psychotic horse Babe who ran at high speeds as soon as you turned her toward the direction of the house. Either way, I didn't want to ride, but succombed to peer pressure and giddye'd up (or rather, Spiffy did). I acted very brave for my two daughters and took a little (very little) ride around the corral for the token picture.

The rest of the morning and afternoon was spent in preparation for the meal of the year, which was absolutely delicious of course. And it will be for the next four days, as well. Just like everyone else in the world, we all stuffed ourselves as full as we could possibly get and then had to let our food digest while we watched some old movie on tv with our top pant button unbuttoned. It was great! A few hours later we stuffed ourselves again with lots of pie.

The women in my family have a tradition to get up early and go shopping the day after Thanksgiving. So even though I didn't get to bed until 1:30 AM because of Ryan's yucky cold and GED I still got up at 4:30 AM so that we could join the rest of Iron County at our local Wal-Mart (the only store Cedar has to shop at--literally). But don't worry, our early rising wasn't in vain! I bought diapers, infant tylenol, nose saline spray and one Christmas present. So now that my immune system has been weakened by lack of sleep, I should be next in line for the GED. Lovely.

Today there is a skiff of snow, so we will probably be headed out with the kids to sled down Grandma and Grandpy's little hill in the backyard. Our kids were very excited to see the white stuff out the window and Avery was especially excited to wear her new snow hat I bought her. The hat is a size 4-6X, the biggest I could find in the kid's section and is extremely tight on her head. Yes, her 4 year old body is the size of a two year old, but her head is bigger than a 6 year old. Lots of brains, I guess. It's genetic, I'm sure.