November 22-26, 2022: Thanksgiving and Sam's family visit!

We were excited to have Sam's family visit from Los Angeles for the Thanksgiving holidays. It's a long drive with four young children, so we really appreciate their sacrifice.

They arrived by dinnertime on the 23rd, and we (including the Dunlap's) met at Dion's Pizza for dinner. The next day was Thanksgiving, and the whole family except for Jared's family was together to eat, play, and visit. We also celebrated Eli's early 7th birthday at the school playground close to us. My favorite thing was playing Kick Ball with the older children and the adults--so fun! 

Sofia buried in Barbies and Barbie clothes

Eden joins her cousins (with baby brother Noah behind her)

Love this little princess

Noah keeps getting cuter and cuter

Hannah's the best big sister and cousin to all

I adore this girl

Hudson in his Gilligan hat

After dinner game time

Eli was coughing a lot, so the mask went on

Joseph enjoying his Switch game

Pretty candle holder that my sister Cathy sent me for my birthday

At the school park to celebrate Eli's early 7th birthday

Look at this gorgeous face

We babysat Eden while the rest of her family visited with the Kartchner's. Eden threw up three days in a row, poor girl.

Sweet little sick child

November 26th: Enjoying a hot air balloon and a Christmas light show in the Dunlap's neighborhood. It was a great way to end our Thanksgiving weekend with our kids and grandkids.

Ken and Ann Nunez' awesome Nativity in front of their house

Beautiful holiday flowers that Sam and Kiley bought me 

Paper White lilies from my friend and ministering sister, Teresa Russell for my birthday. Can't wait to plant them this spring!

November 22nd: I babysat the Dunlap kids and treated them to a movie and a meal at Red Robin restaurant.

These flowers lasted a long time and still looked pretty weeks later

We bought this air hockey table for our future clubhouse

Joseph during one of our FaceTime Video chats

And his sweet daddy, Sam