Thanksgiving 2023

We had pies on Wednesday night before Thanksgiving.  Apparently pies are much better when you aren't so full with Thanksgiving dinner.  Plus then we get to have pies twice.  Ryan, Angela, Kathleen, and Cody came up for Thanksgiving.  They are having Thanksgiving dinner with the Plumbs, but they had pie night with the Spears.  GG came for pie night too.  We had lots of varieties of pies: chocolate, key lime, cherry, lemon meringue, pumpkin, pecan, oreo.  I feel like there were more kinds, but I can't remember.  

My attempt to make a turkey shaped veggie tray.  The example was much cuter of course.  We had 17 people for dinner at Grammy and Pompa's house.  Grammy, Pompa, Marsha, Me, Garret, Jon, Michelle, Nixon, Sadie, Ike, Scarlett, Cam, Rachelle, Ollie, Maddy, Ender, Finn.  Kirt was sick and didn't get to come. Garret was nice and took him a plate after we finished eating.  Ryan and his family came over later in the evening after having dinner with the Plumbs.  Garret and I went home around 6 because Emilie and her family (Dave, Jen, Josh, Grandma and Grandpa Leavitt)  came over.  They flew in to Spokane about 3pm on Thanksgiving.  They went to Black Angus for dinner and then came to our house to visit.  Tanner flew in on the same flight and went right to Pullman.  We are so excited to watch him play basketball tomorrow.  We also got to talk to Katie for a little bit tonight.  

Here is the list that everyone is thankful for:

Ender-family

Scarlett-autumn time and turkeys

Ollie-cats

Maddie-food and water

Ike-all of us being here

Sadie-opportunities we have in life

Nixon-modern medicine

Garret-my parents and everything they do for me

Cameron-modern plumbing

Rachelle-comfy fires to snuggle in front of

Michelle-transportation

Jon-that we are not in a war

Emily-turquoise water and FaceTime

Kirt-comfy house all by myself (he was sick and didn’t come to dinner)

Grammy-missionaries and the good example Tanner, Kathleen, Brandon and Katie have been

Pompa-that my kids are raising their kids in the gospel

Marsha-savior and Michelle’s roll

Playing the ESP game (or ESPN game as my mom kept calling it).  One person would go out of the room and we would pick one of the 9 papers on the ground to be "it".  Then the other person would come in and try and "read the persons mind" and figure out which paper was "it".  They would point to a paper and say "is it this one" and the person would "read their mind" and say no or yes.  The secret was, the location of where the person touched the 1st paper, would give away which piece of paper was "it".  If they touched the paper in the top right hand corner, then the "it" paper was the piece that was in the top right hand corner.  The kids loved the game. 

We also played the broom game.  If you can't do this, then you're dumb, dumb, dumb.  The secret was you had to clear your throat before you did it. We played this at the cabin in Bear Lake in 2017.  I couldn't remember what the secret was of course.

Writing Christmas cards to send to Katie

Tanner and Emilie in the airport.  They flew up on the same plane to Spokane.  It's the first Thanksgiving that they have ever spent together.  Emilie flew home the Thanksgiving they were dating and Tanner was in North Dakota (once with Idaho and once with Utah Tech) the last 2 Thanksgivings.