Thanksgiving

This year we spent Thanksgiving with my parents in Genoa. We missed Lisa because Paris had to work, but everyone else made it and the house was packed (16 people!). It was pretty much non-stop craziness and fun the whole weekend. My mom worked so hard to make a fabulous dinner complete with all of our traditional favorites. Josh looks forward to the 12-layer jello all year long! Unfortunately I didn't get any pictures of the tables or food, but I did get tons of pictures of the other things we did while we were there.

Josh and Ty playing Rock Band II.

Macie with her Uncle Alex.

Me and my Ty guy in downtown Genoa.

There's a yummy little bakery there and we stopped in for a treat. We let Macie pick out her own and, of course, it was a cupcake piled high with icing. She's like me though, a couple of bites and that was about it...not too big of a sweet tooth.

Macie, Sadie and Papi outside the little shops downtown.

My mom has a bin full of all our old dance costumes. My sister brought Bella and Macie out dressed up with pom-poms yelling "CHEERLEADERS!" It was sooo cute.

Not only did they dance for us, but we turned on the music and broke out into a dance party.

Oh yes, everyone danced until bedtime.

We went to Lake Tahoe one morning and rented bikes. They have great trails you can take that go around the lake. If you look closely in the picture behind my mom and Ty you can see our train of bikes and trailers lined up. We had 10 bikes and 3 trailers all together.

We stopped at 2 beaches, and the second one had a little picnic area where we unloaded for lunch. It was pretty cold but the kids did well.

Here's a shot of Josh pulling Ty around. He got the most exercise because when Ty was asleep he had to keep moving! You can see the gorgeous lake in the background. It is so beautiful up there.

Macie and Sadie girl were trailer buddies. They look so excited!

If you know my dad, you are aware that he is still acts like a little boy. He really wanted to get the potato gun out and shoot it over the golf course. He dumped the liquid from the emergency glow sticks onto the potatoes so we could see them fly through the air. It actually was pretty cool. In the picture my brother Ben is igniting the gun so Alex can shoot it off.

We love going to Genoa to visit because it's so breathtaking up there and we always have a blast. Even though it was freezing cold weather, we had a great holiday and are so thankful and blessed to have spent it with family.