Utah and Thanksgiving!

Wow, where do I start?! Well, Steven and I were able to get buddy passes from Steven's friend so we could fly up to Utah to see Amy and we were planning on leaving the Wednesday before Thanksgiving but everything was full...so we decided to leave on Tuesday and even then we weren't sure if we'd get on a flight. Thankfully we did but when we got to Salt Lake City we had no one to pick us up (originally we were planning on flying in later that night but we got on the early flight) Amy couldn't leave work to come pick us up so...we made ourselves real comfortable. About 5 hours later, Amy came to pick us up.

The next day Steven and I were kind of trapped at Amy's house with no car so we watched movies, ordered pizza and played games. It was fun just to relax even though I know Steven was going crazy! Later that night my brother Jeremy flew in so we had a full house!
Thursday we got up and started cooking of course. Amy did most of the work and did fabulous but we all helped here and there. Our cousins Amanda, James, Tyler and Jenn came over to join us and it made it tons of fun. We didn't have pumpkin pie but we did have pumpkin cheesecake and key lime cheesecake which I'd take over pumpkin pie any day (yuck).
Friday I got talked in to going shopping even though I usually avoid it at all costs. However, we did not get up early. We slept in and left when we were ready. We didn't really do a whole lot of shopping but it was still fun...believe it or not. I just might go next year now! Later that night we saw the movie August Rush which was really really good. I recommend it to anyone interested in seeing it.
Saturday we got up and went to some village to take pictures for our Christmas card. Then we drove up to Park City and did some more shopping then went down to our cousin Curtis's house in Provo to have a barbecue. All the cousins were there again, plus some!
Sunday we went to church and then went over to our friend Wendy's house for dinner. Steven and I were planning on leaving on Monday morning but it wasn't showing any flights so we had to leave Sunday night. They dropped us off and then we found out the flights were either all full or overbooked (for those of you who don't know, buddy passes mean standby... I don't recommend it!at least not Thanksgiving weekend)Anyway, so we had Amy come pick us back up and we were going to attempt to leave Monday morning, after finding out that there WERE flights. So at 4:45 the next morning we got up and drove to the airport, yet again. The flight we were wanting was full but we hoped and waited anyway. While checking in, the lady at the counter said," don't run away just yet. You might get a seat. We had a flight last night that was overbooked and had 7 standby people and everyone ended up leaving and there were two open seats." Yeah, that was the one we were wanting! We couldn't believe it but anyway, about 10 minutes before the final boarding we got called up and even got to sit by each other.
So, this was really long but so was our trip. It was definitely an experience to remember. Most of the pictures are on Amy's blog as well since she got them off our camera but I'm putting them up anyway! Hope everyone else had a good Thanksgiving as well!
This was major drama for Amy at first!

Yes, there is such a thing as too much football!!!!

My and my sister in the kitchen

After being around each other for a long period of time, we get kind of goofy :o)