Thanksgiving Adventures!

Gobble, Gobble! These cookies were just a fun little project I did one day after work to combat boredom. They turned out cute and several people have asked me to publish the finished product so, here they are! My "festive flock."

Mitchell and I enjoyed a fun trip up to Mountain Home, Idaho to spend Turkey Day with his sister, Claire and her family there on the Air Force base. Mitchell's parents were also able to come out from Washington and it was fun to see them too. On our way up we stopped in to see Mitchell's other older sister, Jessinna and her boys and their new house. Gorgeous! Our trip to Idaho was great and without incident (unlike the return journey). We had a couple of very enjoyable and relaxing days. In fact, Mitchell and I quite liked the lifestyle of a toddler. We slept in until about 8:00am, had a leisurely breakfast of yummy blueberry pancakes, then we went Christmas Shopping for a while and ate lunch...here's the best part...we took a long afternoon nap! When I woke up from my nap I was joined on the couch by 3 year-old Sadie and we watched 2 episodes of Dora the Explorer. That's a life I could get used to! Mitchell had fun Thursday morning joining in on the Turkey Bowl touch football game on the base that morning and Claire and I were happy to be their cheer squad. Thanksgiving dinner was amazing! Claire pulled it off beautifully and single-handedly, well, John carved the bird. It was delicious! All in all it was a great holiday with a great family.





So here's the great adventure...I was scheduled to work at 6:00am on Friday so we left Idaho after dinner to make the 6 hour drive back to Provo. About one hour in to the drive the check battery light went on in our car. If I had been alone I would have taken note of the alert but not worried about it immediately. Good thing Mitchell is more cautious/knowledgeable/inspired than me because he thought we ought to stop and get it checked out. Our Dads confirmed this intuition and we all decided it must be a failed alternator. What are the odds of finding an auto mechanic open at 8:00pm on Thanksgiving? I say they are zero because that is how many we found after calling half the numbers in the phone book. We got a hotel room for the night (thank you Scott!) and we set out on our quest for auto repair in the morning. We feel very blessed because the car did start in the morning and we were able to find a mechanic who could accommodate us that morning. We made it to the shop and parked in the parking lot; when the mechanic went out to pull the car in to the garage however, it wouldn't start and they had to push it in. Whew! Someone was watching out for us! We did make it home safely and are enjoying the last hours of vacation.