Thanksgiving 2008

We had a really good thanksgiving this year! Kevin played in football with some of his buddies and I started out by running a 5k with my family. (My dad, Ann, Alvin, Laura, Stuart, Jen, and her sister in law Renee) It was a lot of fun! We all finished within minutes of each other. My sister in law Laura is six months pregnant and still running like a champ!! She is such a trooper. Then we went to Kevin's parents for dinner. We had the best thanksgiving dinner. I brought a salad, cranberry sauce and my family's favorite tradition Almond Paste swirl a yummy dessert. Then we played the famous Christmas tree bingo, a family tradition for Kev's family, and just hung out. Later we went to visit my family, and helped tie quilts and make blankets for those in need, I found out quilting is not my favorite past time. ha ha (I might have screwed it up in a few places) Its the thought that counts right?

After the Race

Renee, Jen, Stuart, Amber, Dad, and Ann (Don't know where Alvin and Laura went?)

Thanksgiving with the Smith's

Christmas Tree Bingo

Lily in these silly glasses!!

Mallory & Sophie at my parents house
Making a quilt

GO UTES!!

Kevin and I went to Pete and Hayley's house to watch the big BYU/UTAH game, and the UTES WON!! YEAH (Sorry Hayley) We had a really fun time.

ELF DANCE

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Philly & New York Trip (WARNING this is A LOT of pictures)

My friend Marcy and I went to visit Angela, Paul and Hayden in Philadelphia, all of us took the trip to New York for the weekend. It was such a blast!! When we first got there we took the subway and spent time touring downtown Philly. We saw a lot of cool buildings and historical sites. We ate at a historic farmers market, Reading Terminal Market. It had a huge selection of baked goods, meats, poultry, seafood, produce, flowers, ethnic foods, cookware and eclectic restaurants throughout the market, we ate the best burger there!! We went to Pen's Landing and saw some cool battle ships, we ate the biggest cheese steak of our lives, we played the lottery, saw the Rocky statue, saw some huge crazy cemeteries. We saw where the Philly's won the world series, we saw where the Eagles play ball. The next day we drove to Lancaster and saw some Amish towns, we drove through Intercourse PA and got some souvenirs, we tried there pretzels and homemade root beer that tasted pretty nasty. Then we drove to Hersey and went to the Chocolate World, we saw how chocolate candies are made, it was fun! We felt like we were at Willy Wanka's Chocolate factory. Then we went over to Hersey Park an amusement park by chocolate world. We went on rides, went in shops and played games. It was a good time! Over the weekend we drove two hours to New York City and stayed in the Marriott just down the street from Time Square. We went around time square, went shopping on Canal Street, went to little Italy, saw central park, statue of liberty, ground zero, empire state building, Rockefeller center. We had such a great trip!! Thanks Ang and Paul for Hosting us.

Tanky Boyz wanted to come with me...

Marcy and I getting ready to get on the plane

Baby Hayden

The "Belly Filler" HUGE Cheese steak we all four shared this

Ang & Paul didn't win the lottery

Marcy didn't win the lottery

I didn't play but I'm still sad for them

Rocky Statue

Eagles Stadium

Citizens Bank Park where the Philly's play

Penn's Landing

Hershey Park

It was way cute they had a ton of Christmas

lights up and had everything decorated for Christmas.

Hayden on the baby merry -go- round

he was to small but we had to take a picture!

We rode race cars and bumper cars YEAH!!

On the train

This is the scrambler, Marcy and Paul totally smashed me on this

ride and I thought I was going to Puke.

Us girls with Reeses Peanut Butter Cup

Paul, Hayden and Angela

On the tour of the Chocolate Factory

This was the funniest shop ever. It was a trickster store, it had

all sorts of crazy gag gifts. They make the LARGEST underwear in PA

The lady at the front desk even squirts the customers

in the store with water, and air. It was funny until she squirted

Hayden in the face. (mean lady)

Marcy with the HUGE Panties on

Me with the HUGE Panties

Ang with the HUGE panties

This is us at The King of Prussia, a really big ritzy mall in PA The actor who played Edward it the Twilight movie was coming to the mall and there was a huge crowd of people lining up to see him and he wasn't even coming until 7:30 PM and the crowd was lining up since midnight the day before. CRAZY!!

Getting ready to get on the train to go downtown

In Philly Next to Ben Franklin's Grave

Independence Hall



Liberty Bell

Down Town Philly

Down town Philly we saw these huge game pieces

Marcy & Angela

At Macy's

A big mall in NYC

Empire State Building

The Statue of Liberty back on the left. This day was FREEZING!

We ran to the statue and saw it from this far away because we were so cold.

Baby Hayden was such a trooper, he pretty much slept the whole time.

Ground Zero

Central Park

We saw this in time square and thought it was funny,

a count down to Bush's Last Day

We saw D Will in Time Square on a building! Go Jazz

Little Italy in New York

We ate the best Italian food in Little Italy at a resturant called Positano

Getting ready to go out on the town

Time Square NYC

Rockerfeller Center, Right behind us they where putting up the big christmas tree

We had a lot of fun shopping in China Town on Canal Street

NYC pizza joint

We LOVE NYC

Little Italy