Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving is a special time of year. It has a lot of happy and sad memories for me.
Since it is usually a happy day for all I will share the happy things I like about this holiday.
here is my top 20 things i love about Thanksgiving.


1. I love to be with my moms side of the family. *we counted today and there are 45 of us.*

2. I am the second oldest of my cousins on that side and its fun to watch them grow from year to year.

3. TURKEY!!! SNEECHERS! lol this is an inside joke with my cuz Hailey.

4. We do a service project every thanksgiving. this year it was writing missionaries. lol i have gotten really good at that!

5. all the other yummy food that is made. salads, rolls, stuffing, etc yum!

6. Sledding or Playing at the park, Depending on the snow fall of the year, this year we had snow so we went sledding!

7. Singing with the fam, more or less i just listen, I am not musically inclined. but i have amazing singers and musicans in my family.

8. Thinking of things that I am grateful for, friends, family, place I live, Utah, its a beautiful place! I LOVE IT!

9. The smell of the food, and my grandma's house.

10. Thinking of all the blessings that have happened in the year. for example, my cousin hannah is very sick but pulled through yet again when odds were against her. My uncle was very sick as well but is getting better.

11. All the crazy new memories made, like this year, My uncle tackled my cousin off the sled while he was going down the hill, very funny! also my aunt and uncle are here for the holidays and are not usually so it is fun new memories with them.

12. Christmas music is not so strange to listen to on Thanksgiving. and after too.

13. Games that are played while the kids are done eating and the grown-ups just start.  todays favorite was UNO ATTACK! and see how many grandkids we can fit under the coffee table. lol was pretty fun.

14. The fact that usually my immediate family gets along.

15. New traditions start, like my nephew sleeps over here the night before Thanksgiving Day.

16. Talking to friends about how their Thanksgiving went.

17. People are normally more thoughtfull of each other around the holidays, *EXCEPT BLACK FRIDAY!!!!*

18. Looking at the ads for Black Friday while watching the Macy's Parade

19. Listening to my Aunts' talk about going shopping the next day. lol it gets pretty funny, they have different stratigies.

20. I LOVE TO BE  WITH MY FAMILY!!! CAUSE I LOVE UM!

A random Photoshoot!

    This is the mountain right out my front door

 Some clouds with the mountains

 the view I have every time I walk out my door

 clouds

 Print of a leaf on the sidewalk

Its my birthday and I'll cry if I want to.

ok so I only cried a little bit on my birthday, but for the most part it ROCKED!

So the night before I got to hang out with one of my best friends ever. We went to walmart and found nothing to do, so we went to fresh market and found some drinks that looked good. so we decided to try them ... Orange floats drink. *not good* well when we bought them they were room temp and nasty so we put them in the freezer well my freezer was packed full so in the ice box they went. about two hours later.... this is what we found.

 mind you this went through a very full box of ice and this was at the bottem

 hehehe yes we had fun but we wont do this again it was almost mid night when we were cleaning it up... a little hard to do quietly.

                                                          happily cleaning out the ice box

                                                This is the ice we saved!

                                                               Jacee with the culprit!

                                                   this is Kerr the gold fish! he was watching us 

                                                    and died the next morning. Rest in peace Kerr.

                                          hahahaha its clean Thanks to all our hard work!

                                          she started putting the ice we saved back in the box 

                                           and it was really loud so she kept stopping and laughing.

                                           bahahahahahahaha

                                               Priceless Jacee face!

            laughing that we are making a mess cleaning it up and being loud.

anyway this is what i did the day before my birthday. I was not smart enough to bring a camera around on my birthday but here is the low down on what happend. First of all it was remembered by most of my family. Well I got up to read scriptures with my family. got my new power drill that I absolutely LOVE *pic of it coming soon* well I went take lunch to my sister who was working. lucky for me she left me money to do so! yay! Mo Bettah Steaks! yum! so i took her lunch and went to my grandma's house. We do a halloween/ my birthday party every year. this consists of my family all getting together and carving pumpkins. lunch consists of Chili dogs, and apple cider. yay! well my aunt came from Norway two days before my birthday so that was fun. but shortly after they left my dads side of the family has never gotten along very well and to put it lightly all hell broke loose. my dad and aunt totally wrote each other off. it was heart breaking and had me in tears for a bit and not to mention that i always have a hard time on my birthday because it reminds me of my great grandmas death.  but i was determined to not let it ruin my day. so later i went to boondocks with my family and some friends. it for the most part was a blast and a half. one of my very good friends even made me a cake. so i didn't have to make my own this year. and it was AWESOME! we didnt get home till after ten. and then i went with my sister and bro in law to Iggys for some fun with them. so all in all my day was pretty good! LOVED IT!!!