Thanksgiving 2017

Thursday, November 23, 2017

It was our first Thanksgiving spent with family in over 4 years! And it was a good one!

Chris' parents flew in from Denver, Great Grandma Doris flew in from St. George, Eric & Tanya & Zoe drove over from their house, and Bethany and her family drove up from Salem and we all convened at my parent's house in Redmond. Grandpa got straight to work building a gingerbread house with Fox & Jane.

I think all the candy got picked off and devoured by the time Thanksgiving was over haha!

I made a slow cooked sweet potato casserole from scratch! I was super proud of myself, even if only 4 of the 20 people or whatever like sweet potatoes, hahaha :)

Thanksgiving feast!

The kids' table. It feels like only yesterday I was sitting at the little table!

Nana and Jane snuggling Phoebe.

On Black Friday, Chris' brother Nick drove down from Vancouver where he is working on the new Hotel Transylvania 3 movie, and we all went to see the new Coco movie which was super cute. Memories ARE important!

Thanks to my dad for snapping a few family photos of us!

Thankful. Grateful. Blessed.

welcome!

I’m from Seattle. Chris is from Denver. We met at BYU and got married in 2007 in Nauvoo, IL. Chris graduated from the USC School of Dentistry in 2013 through an Army scholarship and then we were stationed in Grafenwöhr, Germany for 4 years! We visited 43 countries while living in Europe and miss it every day! Now we live in Littleton, CO where Chris works as a dentist at Old Town Dental. I’m a stay-at-home-working-mom to our son Fox and daughter Jane. Scrapbooking is my passion and I have a book called Make Your Memory, 17 signature collections with American Crafts called ADVENTUROUS, SUGARPLUM WISHES, BLOOMING WILD, GARDEN SHOPPE, SPLENDID, BUNGALOW LANE, WONDERS, GO THE SCENIC ROUTE, BLOOM STREET, TRULY GRATEFUL, HORIZON, WHIMSICAL, PICK-ME-UP, TURN THE PAGE, OH MY HEART, TAKE ME AWAY & FANCY FREE. I’m the Creative Editor for Scrapbook & Cards Today Magazine, I design 10 new Silhouette cut files every week, I have online classes available on my website, an Etsy shop, and online courses at Big Picture Classes. I love teaching in-person scrapbooking and bookbinding workshops whenever and wherever I can! Thanks for stopping by!

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