Thanksgiving 2009...over and done and now it's Pito's house

Thanksgiving this year was crammed full of all kinds of activities. It started out for me at school with pumpkin pie making and a reenactment of the Pilgrim and Indian feast in the hallway. The kids looked so cute in their costumes.

 

Tuesday evening (or early Wednesday morning) the Weavers and Supe arrived and spent the night. The next day the Randalls arrived and I missed out on the repelling activity at Snow Canyon with school and cooking taking up most of my day. Bryan, Uncle Jim, Noah and Christie had their first repelling experience. Uncle Jim said, "It scared the hell outa me," but he would like to try it again. The kids had fun playing in the rocks while the adults went down the cliff. Christie and Moss went down tandem (sorry no pics) and Noah went down in his dad's backpack. It sounded like everyone had a good time. In some ways, I'm OK with missing out on this one. Supe had to make good use of his time in the sun and also did some climbing with Leo and JJ, and also went hiking and repelling down a giant arch at Tuacahn Canyon with some friends. He tried to convince us all to go camping. We all opted to sleep in the house instead!

We also went down to the Visitor's Center and viewed the Reflections of Christ photography exhibit and saw the manger scene. Lou Anne and I went down to the Santa's Workshop craft show after going to watch Supe and friends climb with Paul and Bryan and taking Brady and Ellie on a little hike. Of course,Thursday was the day of women cooking, men taking children hiking, feasting, visiting, napping, visiting, resting, checker and chess in the front yard, grandkids against Supe wrestling match,visiting with the Smiths and Borrowmans, pie eating and laying about watching Up. We also watched another movie another evening - Hoodwinked - a very different rendition of the story of Red Riding Hood.

We spent time at Grandma's watching BYU beat the Utes...Yea! We had a nice relaxing day at church and then did a little early birthday celebrating with Noah and Paul.

We hung out in the yard taking in some sun and then kissed the company good bye. Now our house feels big and empty (pretty dirty too)...the Pito's house syndrome. We love you all and are thankful for a wonderful, chaotic, fun-filled, stomach-filled, love-filled holiday!