Thanksgiving and such:)

My camera broke recently (yes the one that I just bought in June and you guessed it the warranty is no longer active, I hate Kodak!) and so I have no pictures of Thanksgiving weekend. I had a blast! I flew from Salt Lake to Portland, OR. on Wednesday and then flew back to Salt Lake on Sunday afternoon. My family surprised me and sent my nieces with my step mom and so I got to spend a lot of time with them which was wonderful. Normally I find that I start getting cranky with them with in a couple of days and snap at them but this time I was not upset with either of them the entire time. The last day I was with them they were starting to get a little whinny and clingy, I think they were missing their mom contrary to Chloe's statments:) and so Emma winded up having to sit in time out because she was not listening but overall we had a lot of fun! I can't tell you how much I miss them when I don't get to see them. It seems like they just grow up so much between each visit and I miss so much. I get to go to Pendleton at Christmas and so I will get to see them again really soon and then hopefully we will be going to Disneyland in March and so I will only have to wait three months to see them again. We celebrated Thanksgiving in Sweet Home with my dad's side of the family and we also celebrated my Grandma's 75th birthday and so all of her children and most of my cousins were there with their children and so we had a bunch of us. It was so much fun to catch up with people, some of which I had not seen for 7 or more years. I'm so thankful to my Heavenly Father for blessing me with such a great family, both on my mom's side and my dad's side, great friends, a good job, a wonderful place to live, and so many other things. I could go on for days but I will stop there and hope that you know that I'm thankful for all of my blessings and I will try to be better about showing that appreciation!