It was the week of Thanksgiving!  Megan came home Monday night, my mom and dad joined us on Tuesday, Savannah came Wednesday morning, Sarah came Wednesday afternoon. my sister, Maggie, and her family arrived Wednesday late-afternoon, and my sister, Amy, and her family arrived Wednesday with pizza for all just in time for dinner.  What a full, happy house!

When Sarah came home

Breakfast on the deck

Before many people arrived, on Tuesday night, Mariah had a fundraiser dinner for basketball.  My mom and dad were there to attend!  Grandma Gazdik and Megan came, too.  After we ate the yummy food, we got to watch Mariah play in a scrimmage game.  Fun times!

So, with Grandma and Grandpa Gazdik, we had 26 people for Thanksgiving dinner!  We had 11 people at our kitchen table and 15 on the adjoining deck on folding tables and chairs.  The weather was amazing! Beautiful blue skies and temperatures in the high sixties.  We had turkey, potatoes and gravy, yams, cranberry sauce, two kinds of jello, rolls with homemade raspberry jam, green bean casserole. sausage stuffing, and deviled eggs.  Soooo yummy!  And GREAT company!

 

We did a lot of visiting upstairs and the kids did a lot of game-playing downstairs and it all worked out great.  On Friday night, we did stir ourselves from the house for a bit to see the lights on Temple Square!  We stopped at a "Harry Potter Christmas" exhibit on the way up, and though it was small, it was charming.  Temple Square was beautiful and magical as always!  This year it had the added bonus of being warm!  Yay for family and good weather.  We went home and had more Thanksgiving pie!

Saturday morning everyone went home but first we took some pictures of our big group in front of our new house!

After everyone left, we took the chance with all our college kids home, to decorate the Christmas tree.  It's sooooo great to have Savannah home this year for Christmas!