Thanksgiving 2014

We seriously had the most wonderful Thanksgiving! We got together at the Noel's house with the Jacobs, Amsbury's, McRae's, and Barlow's for a 'Framily' Thanksgiving Dinner! We had 32 people there! It was so much fun, and there was SO much good food. 
I made 3 batches of the amazing Crosland rolls totaling about 144 rolls! Yum! I also made creamy amazing mashed potatoes, raspberry pretzel jello, chip dip, 2 banana cream pies, and yummy green beans. Ohhh the food. I'm hungry just thinking about it!
I went over Friday night to help Jaymie set up all the tables and place settings. I still can't believe we can fit that many people in there comfortably! And it was all so pretty! Jaymie is talented. I'll stick with the kids table! ;-)
One of the gorgeous Turkeys!
The teenage girl beauties- Madi, Ivy, and Faith
Jaymie and baby Emma matched.
The 'little kids' table-- Hope, Ella Joy, Violet, Kaelyn, Clara, Lucy, Julia, Ruby, Georgia, Anson, and Honour. 
Boys- Noah, Courage, Blake, Oliver, and Justice.
It's all so beautiful!
The adult table. The cute sister missionaries joined us too.
The Barlow's. Celeste & Taylor with sweet Norah.
Tera & Dave Amsbury
Jenny and the Sisters.
Kami & Mat McRae
The Noel's. I die at Eleanor's cute cheeser!
cute Lulu and Ruby Sue.
Love these girls!
 3 little best friends. Doing their best friend Cheer. I wish I was 5 again!
 We got all the food put away, and took our husbands and kids home and put them to bed! Then Jaymie, Celeste, and I headed to the mall! The mall opened at 6, and we didn't even get get there until about 10pm, so it was not busy at all! We took our sweet time and meandered through the stores! We spent a fair bit of time at Sephora and it was probably close to 12 before we even made it to Old Navy.
 We seriously had the best time. and I really want to own this onesie.
 We had a nice midnight dinner at the Target cafe at around 3am.... and finally made it home by 5. We were SO tired and delirious, but it was so worth it just to shop in peace and without the kids! The mall was almost empty and we had no lines! 
Thanksgiving was perfect. Of course we miss our families back in Utah, but I'm so glad we are here. These three are of course what I am the most thankful for! We have been so blessed!

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