Thanksgiving in St. George

Our first Thanksgiving in St. George, and it was wonderful!  The weather couldn't have been more perfect too - each day in the high 60s and even reached the 70s.  It was so fun to be together with Mitch's parents, siblings, and their families.  Kim and Mitch put so much time and effort into making sure that we had a week in St. George that was filled with wonderful memories, and it was.    We spent the morning preparing for dinner and going for a walk, then it was time to eat!  There was a feast prepared for Thanksgiving Day - Brooke made her amazing cornbread sausage stuffing that was my favorite!  Everything was wonderful.  Mitch and I made creamed corn (a recipe given to us by Christopher from last year's Thanksgiving), and it was a hit - Maddy especially enjoyed it.  She was so great a trying different foods, and her Thanksgiving meal consisted of cranberry grape salad, stuffing, creamed corn and homemade rolls (I tried to give her some turkey but she wasn't a fan).

Maddy was loving her uncles the entire time we were in St. George.  

She especially loved watching the football games with Beau and Mike.

   

Last Thanksgiving we didn't go to Branson with the Cullimore side of the family

because Maddy was so little and it was flu season.  We ended up spendingThanksgiving with 

Marty and Christopher.  So this year it was especially wonderful to be with Mitch's family.

This is a face of a girl who has thoroughly enjoyed Thanksgiving!

 It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without a little Black Friday shopping!

Some stores were actually opening on Thursday night, and Target was one of them.  So Kim, Sharee, Brooke and myself made it over to Target a little before 9:00pm, when the doors were to open.  We couldn't believe how many people were in line - easily hundreds.  We decided not to wait in the line but would watch as the doors opened and people started running in.  Instead, we went to another strip mall that had a few clothing stores open, I got Maddy some clothes from Oshkosh and Gymbore.  We went back to Target to see if the line had gotten smaller, and to our luck, there was no line!  So we went in and started piling our arms with items since the carts were all taken (we found games, DVDs, a princess doll house for Maddy).  We thought we had outsmarted the other shoppers who waited in line, until we saw the checkout line - it wrapped all the way around the store.  Brooke asked someone who just bought something how long he waited, and he said over an hour.  We put down our items and headed out.  So the picture we took was our unsuccessful shopping trip to Target on Black Friday, but a lot of fun being out together!  

I have so much to be thankful for.  My heart swells with gratitude for my wonderful family, for my wonderful husband and baby girl and for both of our families.  I am so thankful for a Heavenly Father that knows each of us and our needs and wants nothing more than for us to be happy.  And I am eternally grateful and happy for all of my many blessings.