Thanksgiving

 This last Thanksgiving was full of fun and excitement, and when I say fun and excitement I mean, food, family and puke.
All of Matt's family got together for the occasion. And some great family pictures were taken.

Scott Hancock Photography

Scott Hancock Photography

 Matt's brother, Paul and family came in from San Diego and they brought their dog, Lyla. Lola loved the dog of course. And the dog was very patient with Lola.

Lola and Lyla, Best Friends Forever.

She looks so comfortable in there I'm considering getting her a cage of her own.

On the Monday before Thanksgiving we had a Family Home Evening about Gratitude. We invited our neighbors, Sandy and Bree over for the evening.

 We read some scriptures about gratitude and thankfulness and then cut out some leaves and wrote what we were grateful for on the leaves.

 Then we taped the leaves to the wall around the picture I like to call , "The Thankful Man."

On Wednesday night, the night before Thanksgiving, Lola threw up and go sicker and sicker as the days went on. What we originally thought was a bit of stomach flu turned out to be a urinary track infection. The poor girl was ripped from her sick bed and dressed up like a doll to get the family pictures taken. We joked about getting a picture of just our family so we would have a nice family photo to display at her funeral. I'm so glad we did because thanks to their airbrushing and photoshopping it is my best photo ever. I am of course also so glad she lived through the illness.