But for Thanksgiving we went to Utah to spend the holiday with Jon's family. Jon had a drew out for a hunting tag in AZ. So we had Thanksgiving dinner on Wed and on Thurs. morning, Jon and his Brother Aaron left for the mountains of Arizona (who knew they had those there-lol)
The kids and I stayed behind and hung out with my in-laws. It was a good break, but one that lasted longer than intended. Jon didn't shoot his elk until 5pm on the last day. He thought he would shoot his elk in the first couple of days like he did when he went to New Mexico a 2 yrs ago. But it didn't really happen like that. The kids missed 4 days of school last week. they cried (No- not really, they cheered actually-lol)
Did I mention that Jon's family are cattle ranchers in Bicknell, Utah (what....you haven't heard of it?- yeah, that's okay I guess it doesn't help that it doesn't have its own grocery store-lol) But it is a good place to raise cattle! On tues. night, a calf was born and because the weather was so cold, and her mother found a nice wet mudhole to birth her in -(Poor thing- what a rough way to come into the world) she was freezing and not doing so well- so Aaron brought her in the mudroom and we got to see first hand what a rewarding job cattle ranching is. This baby cow was so sweet and sucked down a bottle (actually it was choked down her throat- so she had to swallow- but you get the idea) Jack petted and loved the "Beebee cow"
She couldn't stand up for the longest time- but finally Uncle Aaron's lil' shadow (Carli) helped him to get the calf to stand up.
The kids took pictures of all of food (individually) - you know I love to look at pics of food-lolLOVED these beans. They are called dilly beans because they are pickled. They were crunchy and perfect and now I want some!
There are just no words for this pic- (Just an adorable Uncle Aaron moment-lol )
Gramma had it planned that on Thanksgiving day (Since we had already celebrated the day before) that the kiddos could make Turkey cupcakes.
They turned out cute!!
The kids "helped" Gramma decorate for Christmas. -lol Yeah- I'm not sue how much they actually helped, but the house looked gorgeous in the end!
Jack wore his jammies all week. Buzz is all he wears now. I can hardly pry it off of him to wash it. (Actually he has 3 Buzz Jammies and it is still hard to rotate them so that he always has one to wear.)
When I was getting ready to leave and getting things together, I came out in the family room and saw that these four when transfixed on The Grinch. Add some popcorn to the mix and it was an adorable pic of my fab 4!
Thank You Gramma and Grandpa for leting us visit. We really had a Lovely time!
Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!
3 comments:
thanks goodess the calf was saved. Actually you had just talked about Jon shooting an elk and i look and see Carli in camo waders looking like she helped shoot it... what a relief she was there to bring something into the world not take it out!
Yeah, i'm a total city girl!
what an adventure and a half!
i LOVE dilly beans more than you could possibly know! my mom used to make 'em out on the farm when i was growing up. haven't got my canning skills down enough to be bold and attempt them. but someday i will. in the meantime, they have small jars of them for sale at yokes. just bought some last night! they're on the right side of the antipasto bar (olives, etc.) when you're headed from produce to the the cheese and sandwich meat cases. i think they were like $2.99 a jar. not terrible. definitely worth every penny! ;)
ooh, and kudos to carli on getting the calf to stand. she's awesome. maybe someday here, if we get our ducks in a row soon enough, when we get cattle she can come help out. though we may just start with steers for fair, ha ha. not sure i'm ready for calfing or anything else quite yet. everything here's still a bit overwhelming for me.
have a great weekend. (are you gals going to the nutcracker this year? we'll be there tonight. maybe we'll see you if you're out there tonight as well.)
::hugs::
p.s.
original grinch or jim carey grinch?
both are good, though the original is the ultimate!
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