This Thanksgiving, Gordon and I headed up to Washington to spend the holiday with his dad and step-mom. It was a great trip. We left at the crack dawn- if not before- Wednesday morning and were able to spend 4 days with them. It was a pretty low-key holiday. We chatted and cooked, played games and went shopping, ate lots of food and then ate some more food. (This is no exageration! Gordon weighed himself before we ate Thanksgiving day and then again at the end of the day and he had gained about 9 pounds! He weighed himself again the next day and was back to normal but that gives you an idea of how much we ate!) The weather was actually beautiful in Seattle this time around. I know none of you will believe that, but it really did look like the picture above- sunny and blue skies! I actually missed the rain! I was kind of looking forward to a good Seattle rain storm but we had to settle for just a drizzle the day we left... The highlight of the trip was really seeing all of our family again. It's been awhile since we've been able to make a trip up there and it was fun getting together with everyone and seeing how everyone has changed. We spent a lot of time with Gordon's niece Sarah who is 10 going on 25. We don't get a chance to see her that often and she was hilarious to be around. Our last day there, it was just us girls and Gordon and we were trying to convince him to go shopping. Her argument to get him to come was "Come on Gordon! How often do you get to go shopping with me!?!?!" Funny stuff. One of the other things that was nice was they actually have snow on the mountains up there! Who would have guessed that at the end of November we still wouldn't really have snow on the mountains in Utah!!
I actually have to mention, not that anyone will really appreciate this but Annette, but, I was actually really tempted to make a trip out to Forks, WA just to say I had been there. (This next part is sad to admit, but what the heck!) I even looked it up on the map to see how far away Forks is from Tacoma and was disappointed to find that it is a 3 1/2 hour drive. :( It would have been fun to head to La Push and stand on the beach! Maybe next time... and I found I wasn't alone in my Twilight obsession up there. Gordon's step-sister Tracy absolutely loves the books too! I guess we have another fan in our fan club Annette! :)
We hope you all had a great Thanksgiving and missed seeing all of our UT and CA family but hope to make up for that over Christmas! We love you all!
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