A Thatcher Thanksgiving

So, we had a chance to have Thanksgiving dinner in Arizona this year with my family- probably our only time ever because my family will (hopefully soon!) be moving up to Utah! So, we packed up the car and the family and headed down out of the snow storm to the land of sunshine! We stopped for the night with our good friends, the Harris's, who let us crash the night at their house in Gilbert, AZ. Then next morning, we headed to Thatcher to meet Pa, Maama and Cindy, and Kristi and DJ's family. Dad had this lovely meal waiting for us when we got there:

Zach was very impressed with Dad's stew!

Just up the hill from Dad's apartment, there is a Discovery park. We got up there right before it closed for the holiday and rode the Space simulator (with out puking!) and looked at the trains.

The hotel we swam at had a GREAT pool (thanks Pa!) and the kids swam twice a day almost every day we were there. Can you tell they loved it?

Cindy and Mom came over from Roswell where they are cleaning up and packing up the house- Um, no one remembered to remind Cindy that she is the LITTLE sister and is supposed to stay little. She is taller than me now!

This is my picture of Mt. Graham- I love it!

Cindy at the park...

Best cousins at the park!

The kids spent most of their time (when they weren't swimming) playing Maama's games.

Thanksgiving dinner was spent at the Manor House with a traditional dinner.

Oh, cute... Hyrum took this picture. :)

Pa and Maama

Cindy and Robby, rockin' the mustache

Lydia, DJ and Kristi

Taking a tour of EAC campus- I said "Find Gila Hank!" and Bryson said "Who's Gila Hank?" "A Gila Monster." Hyrum says "A monster? What's he going to do, gila me?" We went around to all of Wendy's favorite places, like the water depot, her work, her old apartment.. We were just missing Wendy!

We also went to Pa's classroom and office.

Then, we took a little jaunt to Red Knolls- a big pile of dirt with caves and broken glass. Doesn't sound so fun but it really is pretty cool. That's Cindy sitting on top of the hill.

And Pa and the boys hiking around. We also got to do a little shooting- the boy's first experience that way. They thought it was pretty awesome shooting a gun!

Then we stopped at the temple...It was a beautiful building!

Saturday, we packed up again and drove back to Gilbert to watch the BYU/Utah game with Harris's (Zach's request, of course) and then home again... We had a great trip! I'm so thankful for my family!