New Mexican Thanksgiving

Telford and I hosted our first Thanksgiving in New Mexico. It was such a blast. My parents, grandma, little sister, older sister and husband, and nephew Jared all came. And three dogs. Everyone stayed at our little house! We were set up pretty well. We have three bedrooms and a den. So there was plenty of sleeping space. Everyone traveled safely down. My parents, however, ran out of gas in Wyoming. I guess that's what happens when dad thinks he can drive 60 miles on an 1/8th of tank of gas.








Goofs.

The first day everyone was here, we went to the Carlsbad Caverns! My Grandma Nammer loved it! She was so cute wandering through there. After we got done visiting the Caverns we all went down by the Pecos River and played croquet. Our weekend turned into a croquet tournament. I'm pretty sure my dad ended up being the champion. Then we moved onto the pie making. Nammer and Maren made the best crusts and pumpkin and pecan pies ever.


On Thursday we woke up and got the turkey in the oven, while the boys went and played in the Turkey Bowl. We had the best turkey we have ever eaten. Telford picked out such a great, fresh turkey. He is now the designated turkey "picker-outer". We were all so stuffed! On Thanksgiving evening we went on a boat ride called "Christmas on the Pecos." All the houses on the river decorate so beautifully. The boat ride took about an hour. It was so fun to be bundled up, listening to Christmas music.










When we got home we made our "Black Friday" shopping plans. We decided on waking up at 4:30am to go to Wal Mart. I know, we're crazy. What can be worth facing scary mom's with shopping carts?! Well we ended up getting everything on our list. We got Nammer a new 32" flat screen TV, and my parents bought Telford and I a new 42" flat screen TV. So it was definitely worth waking up to face the mobs.



After going back home and taking naps, we had a pecan harvesting afternoon. Tel and I have 3 very large pecan trees. Telford would shake the pecans down and everyone would pick up the pecans. We ended up picking around 20 gallons of pecans. It was so nice just to be out in the nice New Mexican weather.

On Saturday we played lots of Pinnacle. We learned how to play 6-handed. It was so fun. We are going to miss having family to play pinnacle with. 2-handed is just not as fun. Saturday night we went to the parade of lights. I haven't ever been to a parade of lights without freezing to death. The weather was in the 60s and was very enjoyable.

Then Sunday came and everyone had to go home. It was sad and quite that day. But it was such a fun weekend. My mom and Nammer brought us my favorite sugar cookies, carmel popcorn, and fudge. We can't wait to see everyone again at Christmas!



I Love my sisters!




All of the girls.



This is such a cute picture of Jared and Grandma Bunny!



We were waiting to go into the Caverns.