Thanksgiving with the Skankeys!!!

For Thanksgiving this year we went down to Yuma, Arizona (the lettuce capital of the world, according to Tish) to spend it with my family's really good friends the Skankeys. Yes, that really is their name. It's awesome. My family has known the Skankeys since basically forever. Tish has been a second mom to me. But anyway, we spent the Thanksgiving holiday with them and we had so much fun! We ate, and ate, and ate, and ate, and ate some more! We are still stuffed silly. :)

Day 1 - Thursday
Sand Dune Sledding.

Robert took us out to the sand dunes (eaarrrrrly in the morning) with Bryce, Kirstin and Sam to slide down the sand dunes on boogie boards! The worst part was having to hike back up the dunes after you'd gone down, but it was still really fun!

It was soooo windy when we got there!

Everything was sandy by the time we got back

John was much more adventurous than me (big surprise). He went down head first!

This was my trip down the big hill. I started with the little one first. But on this trip, I fell at the bottom and hit the back of my head really hard and tweaked my neck. Ouch! I couldn't tilt my head back for the rest of the week and it was hard to turn my head too.

Running down the hill

John making the loooong trek back up the hill

The sand dunes :)

John's trip down the dunes

My trip down the hill (don't worry, this isn't the one where I hit my head) (First it shows Robert going down, then i'm really far away. And when I fall backwards...that's on purpose ha ha)

Day 1 - Thursday Cont.
The Big Pie Bake Off

Tish had us participate in a pie bake off, Boys vs. Girls. Me and Kirstin against John, Bryce and Sam. The boys ended up winning. (but we don't talk about that. I think it was a fluke ha ha) But it was still really fun.

Team AWESOME

Team Manly (that's what they called themselves...)

Mixing mixing

More mixing

The boys had a larger can of pie filling, so they made two, the girls' pie is in the back (with the really cute crust)

Day 1 - Thursday Cont.
LOTS of food. LOTS.

We went to the Workmans' home with the Skankeys to have a BIG turkey dinner. There was so much yummy food! We ate and ate and ate and ate. yummmm. It always amazes me how much food John can put down. AND have like, half a pie! ;) After dinner and clean up we played some games and then went to the theater to see the movie The Blind Side. It was really good! We all left feeling so grateful for the blessings we've been given of a home and family and education. We are so blessed.

Day 2 - Friday
Black Friday and Homework. A Mellow Day

We slept in because we stayed up soooo late with all the fun we were having. John needed to get some homework done that morning so after we went to lunch at Kneaders with Tish, Grandma Baldwin and Kirstin, we dropped John off back at the hotel and the girls went shopping. The black friday sales were CRAZY! The lines looped ALLLL the way around the store! I was looking for Christmas presents for John, so I can't tell you what I found, because John reads this ;) After fun shopping, I went back to the hotel and picked up John and we went over to the Skankey's house for ANOTHER turkey dinner! (we seriously just ate and ate this trip) Tish found her turkey on clearance and soon we began calling the turkey "Clarence the Clearance Turkey" and we'd all laugh. They decided they'd name their turkey every year.

Clarence was very tasty

yay for yummy food!

The Workmans came over to play more games!
The Skankeys introduced us to a game called Ticket to Ride. It's so much fun!

Day 3 - Saturday
Not so mellow day - i.e. BYU vs. Utah football game

While most of the day was spent in anticipation of the BYU game, everyone made me watch the new Star Trek movie, even though i've never watched Star Trek in my life. So i was the only one who didn't fully know what was going on, but it was still a good movie. I didn't mind watching it. But of course, every time Spock did his whole "live long and prosper" thing, everyone did the little hand sign. I thought it was hilarious. Surrounded by nerds!!! But you gotta love them!


Then came the fateful BYU game. We are so excited BYU won!! It was so intense, mostly because of who we were with, watching the game. Robert and Mark Workman were way into the game and we all cheered SO LOUD when George made that amazing touchdown in overtime! HURRAY!!!!!!! GO COUGS!!! It was the perfect end to the trip.

Day 4 - Sunday
Church and Ride Home

Sunday we checked out of our hotel and went to church in the morning and then came back and had a very yummy lunch of turkey leftovers and everything else we ate the days before. Then we finally had to leave our friends and come home and back to reality. We had so much fun this week. We love the Skankeys!!