We were lucky enough to spend Thanksgiving with both sides of our family this year. I started my Thanksgiving morning with a run with friends. I think I may have to make that a Thanksgiving tradition: it gets you up and going, you get to spend quality time with good company, and you burn a few calories in preparation for the big feast! We then spent the morning baking and prepping before heading down to Spanish Fork to do what we do best... eat! The only picture I got all day was this one on my phone, but I think it describes the afternoon mood perfectly.
The Saturday after Thanksgiving we celebrated Jeff's grandma's 80th birthday. It was a well attended event with most of her posterity and a small gathering of friends. We held the "Dale Smith Academy Awards" in commemoration of her legacy. The party doubled as an excuse to start singing Christmas carols, and no Smith holiday party would be complete without a lively musical rendition of "'Twas the Night Before Christmas."
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The next few days we quickly put up our Christmas decorations. I wanted to get them up early because I knew we would have to take them down quickly after Christmas. What I didn't know is that we would end up taking them down just 12 days later! If you think it's depressing putting Christmas away after the holidays, try putting them away before the holidays! I feel like our Christmas season was shortened this year, so I'm glad we got the little bit in that we did.
The finished product. Not perfect by a long shot, but perfect to me because of the little hands that helped me decorate. :)
We did manage to squeeze in one Christmas party the weekend before the moving extravaganza began. We went to the overcrowded, under-planned BYU employee Christmas party. The games were a joke and the line to see Santa was longer than any line I've ever seen at the mall, so all we really did was visit Cosmo. The kids didn't care-- they loved it anyway.
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