Giving Thanks

This year we decided that we would treck over to S to the L C for Thanksgiving. We left the day before and the drive could not have been better. Anyone who has ever driven through Wyoming for an extended length will know that regardless of the time of year, you are bound to hit snow, wind, rain, and road closures.....sometimes all at the same time, most times all at the same time. I think that we drove on the one day on record where none of those things happened. Yippee! Really, we've driven through there in the summer and have had worse weather. So that made it all very pleasant.
The meal plan was going to be prime rib instead of turkey and really none of the traditional Thanksgiving fixins'. I was a little sad, but whose going to shake a stick at prime rib? Well, it was decided while we were en route that a turkey would still make an appearance on the Thanksgiving table in the form of a deep fried turkey. Cason took care of that and it was, how you say?, AMAZING! Hands down, best non-traditional turkey I've ever had! I haven't had a lot of 'non-traditional' turkey in my life, but if I had, I would bet that this one was better than the other hypotheticals. I made some delicious Rosemary bread that was a big hit and awesome creamed corn.
Friday Carson and I did some black Friday shopping and only came home with one thing that we actually set out looking for. Disappointing. Time wasted. Oh Well. But that afternoon, Sheena, Allison and I went to see Twilight. Of, course, that made my day. But what made it even better was later on while I was taking a nap, Sheena and Allison tackled Carson and forced him into vampire make-up. Don't ask me how they won the fight, but when I woke up, he was pale with bright lips and sparkles. Oh the things that my husband goes through to make me happy.
Saturday was Carson's birthday. Yea! The big 2-9! We spent some time with old friends and then made a pilgrimage to Ikea-we could have spent thousands-where we were able to get all the bedding for Will and Audrey as well as some various sundry items. Great fun! Later we went to dinner at the Garden Room in the JSM building. Delicious food as usual. We got some great birthday presents (we celebrated for me also) including some new pants for Carson and awesome Wii games and then the Twilight soundtrack for me (awesome!) and a huge, awesome pressure canner. I'm so excited!
Sunday morning, when we were planning on leaving, we were woken up to the sound of barfing. Not barking, barfing (you would think that I wouldn't have to qualify that, but I wouldn't put it past Siobhan to wake us up in the form of barking-strange kid). Siobhan had some sort of bug and couldn't keep anything down. Sad. We also heard that there was bad weather so we were debating whether or not to even leave, and after much prayer and internet searches, we decided to chance it and hardly had any problems. Siobhan did throw up a few more times in the car, but soon had it out of her system and we made it home quicker than we anticipated and hardley hit any bad weather. We were definitely being watched over. We had a great time and I didn't take any pictures. Sorry. Just Give Thanks to the fact that we made it to and from in safety and had a great time. Use your imagination to fill in the rest. :)