Thanksgiving 2009

This year we spent our annual Thanksgiving celebration at the cabin. There were 15 of us there...the entire White/Howard/Gomez/Anderson family!!! 2 grandparents, 4 children, 3 spouses, and 6 grandchildren! The White side all arrived Tuesday night. We spent the morning putting up lights and playing outside. Mali got to help Grandpa cook breakfast. She had snowballs fights with her daddy and make a snowbunny with mommy. It was a beautiful day to be outside and enjoy the cabin. Mali even doned her skis and practiced! She wasn't too thrilled about it at first. Brandon took awesome family pictures of our family in our ugly Christmas/vintage sweaters. Wednesday the Howard side arrived. Mali really enjoyed sledding with her cousins! I cooked soup for 15 people and we all warmed up that night! The kids made a gingerbread village. It was a good idea but not so great in practice! It was messy and caused some drama when the dads ate pieces of the houses! The 'men' enjoyed a guys night out that night. Mali had a slumber party with Shayna that night. Thanksgiving day we enjoyed breakfast again and them were on to prepare the meal. But first we took a family picture...all 15 of us! The guys napped off and on and prepared the turkey to be fried. The girls didn't nap and prepared the rest of the meal. Shayna was my big helper and Austin helped the guys out. The meal was great and we enjoyed good family time! Mali said that her favorite part was riding on the "trailer" with Grandpa. (Trailer=four wheeler). She then said "let's talk about what I didn't like, when Uncle Brandon hit me in the face with the snowball." My favorite part was hearing Mali talk about how much she loved the cabin!:) We measure the girls too! I love having that precious marker! (Each time we go to the cabin my dad would measure us as kids, and now it is passed on to my children!! He even measured the width of my belly when I was pregnant with the girls!) Thursday night, Eleri's cough got worse, so we decided to pack up and head home...the opposite direction of Wolf Creek where we had planned on taking Mali to ski as a Wolf Pup for the first time. Of course when we got to Dalhart, Eleri was fine! But Eric did get to golf. The girls got to spend time with Auntie Kisha and Mimi too.

Agian, I'm having technical difficulties, my card reader is not working so I can't upload my pictures, but this is a slideshow of Terry's pictures!