Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving we went to my parents house. One of my sisters and her family were there. It was fun. We ate turkey, played games, and just spent time together. Jackson was excited for Thanksgiving. The day before he wanted it to be Thanksgiving. Mostly he wanted to go to grandma's house. When he went to bed on Thanksgiving Eve he was calling Doug so Doug went to see what he needed and he just said "Thanksgiving." He wanted it to be Thanksgiving. On the way to my mom's house we found out Jackson is stubborn like one of his parents... we were listening to Christmas music and the Chipmunk song game on and Jack asked what it was so I told him it was the Chipmunk song. Doug then said it was a Christmas song. Jackson insisted it wasn't. Then Doug told him to listen because the song says Christmas. Jack listened and he heard the word Christmas but then said "it's not a Christmas song." This Thanksgiving was different than the other Thanksgivings we had since we were married. And different from the Thanksgivings I have had for a long time. We always traveled to Doug's parents house since we've been married. Before we married my family came to Utah for Thanksgiving. And before that I went to Utah for many Thanksgivings with my parents. So this year seemed weird not getting ready to travel and not being excited to see family that I don't see very often. But it was still a lot of fun and the food was so good! Here's the family before the feast:

This is our Thanksgiving tree. Every night we would say something we were thankful for and write in on a leaf and tape it on the tree. Jack was pretty cute every night doing this. He would usually say whatever Doug or I would say than we'd have to say what else? For awhile it would take long time to get to a new thing that we hadn't said before. But by the last few days we did it he was getting much better.