Thanksgiving

This year we stayed put and for the first time in almost 11 years of marriage Jeremy's sister came to our house with her hubby and 4 boys. The kids loved it and we had a great time.


Dinner was plentiful and delicious. As we were finishing up our dinner Jennifer asked how far away Hoover Dam was since it is about 30 min away we decided to drive out there and take a look around. For Jeremy and I it was the first time we had been out there since they had finished the bridge so the highway can bypass the dam(something we are excited for because it will cut out an hour of travel time to my parents house). It was windy and the wind was soooo cold. The kids enjoyed it and Jennifer eventually got over the height issue.





On Friday we went down to the strip to see some of the shows they do outside and the one that's inside Ceaser's. My younger boys really don't like the Mirage volcano or the cannons at Treasure Island.

Catching up with miscellaneous.

Sorry this is a lot to post in one day but well my plate has been quiet full and I am doing this all for the book/journal we print at the end of each year. This goes on for 2 pages sorry.

Jeremy has been working on a project out in Pennsylvania for Geisinger Medical Center and was needing to be there for 3 weeks in a row. Lucky me got to fly out with him for a week. I called my mom to see if she would come out and stay with my kids for the week. We flew her out Halloween afternoon we left the next morning and came back on Saturday. It was HEAVENLY being with out kids for a whole week, I could watch what I wanted on TV, I could shower for as long as I wanted with out little people interruption. The guys that Jeremy has been working with thought that I would be bored all day while he was working they were sooooo wrong.



The weather was really nice the first half of the week nice sunny and bright with a brisk cool air. Growing up in Colorado I was used to a fall where the leaves change colors and fall off the tree, but the color variety that I saw was amazing and so different from what I am used to. I couldn't get enough of the landscape and with my new camera was having a blast taking pictures. I know this will sound funny but the size of the leaves seemed so unreal to me after 7 years of desert tiny small leaves.


We went out to dinner with a bunch of the guys in his department and their wives to a restaurant called Quaker Steak & Lube, they have an all you can eat wing buffet on Tuesday night. Jeremy has really enjoyed this place it was really tasty. Then one night Tim and his wife Jo Beth hosted a Pennsylvania Dutch Dinner for us and another couple who had recently relocated from Texas. I will admit I was a bit nervous, I mean what do you think when you hear "Chicken & Waffles". I was blown away dinner was YUMMY!!!! We had a salad with warm bacon dressing, chicken and gravy poured over warm waffles, corn bake(this has been added to my Thanksgiving menu), mashed potatoes and for dessert are you ready homemade pies an apple and blueberry. We went back to the hotel that night very full. The picture above is the view from their front yard amazing. The next couple are also from their yard.



I had read about this Christmas store and tree farm that wasn't far form the hotel so I hooked up the GPS and off I drove. The next thing I know I have taken some dirt road(muddy because it had rained) that brought me to this:



It was crazy driving into the bridge and knowing how old it was. I loved the inside.




These are views from outside the hotel like the ones from above but you can see what a change of weather is like.




These houses and church are from driving around. I loved how quaint everything felt. It reminded me a lot of driving around in England.



A train that had just pulled in.





The Susquehanna River. We drove over this loads while we where there but this was one of the only pictures I got. It is hard to take pictures while you are driving and when I could have pulled over to snap some it was raining and I didn't want to get wet.



Double rainbow it was so pretty and the arch was so large. We stopped and had some dinner with some good friends from our Rexburg days, after having not seen each other for 7 years you would have thought that I would have brought out the camera. Totally bummed that I didnt but it was sooooooooo much fun catching up with them.



We Drove into Hershey our last day there and toured the Hershey Museum. All the street lights are Hershey Kisses. I have never seen the pod of a cocoa been very fascinating.