friendsgiving

#thisisfriends friendsgiving 2013.

we may be a bunch of newlyweds but we put together a thanksgiving feast that would have made those pilgrims and indians proud.

we couldn't be more grateful for our amazing friends.
dallin & kate. winston & elise. ryan & nicole. steve & kayley. chase & nakita. gavin & jill.

however you will mostly just see pictures of the female parts of those couples, seeing as our husbands would prefer to reminisce about high school, discuss business, or talk about sports than take pictures.  weird, right?

but sometimes i can sneak in a picture or two with this cutie.  it's because of him that we have this great group of friends.

thank you brighton high school class of 2007!

hopefully this is the start of a tradition that will last until we're grey-haired and senile (even if the venue has to change to chuck-a-rama because we're too old and lazy to cook our own thanksgiving dinner)!

turkey bowl

gav and jill came up with the great idea to have a friends turkey bowl.

seeing how 5 out of the 9 of us that could come were BHS graduates, 

it only seemed appropriate to head back to good old BHS to play.

first things first, don't let the blonde heads on these girls fool you.

they. are. athletes.

jill was the MVP of the game, 

nicole was the most intimidating, 

and kayley was a defensive blur.

but we are all cheerleaders at heart!

the boys impressed their wives with their athletic ability too.

and they looked pretty good doing it.

i present to you, the winning team:

(chase was QB for both teams, but his heart was with us)

and the losers:

we love our friends, 

and hope this becomes a yearly tradition

(and hopefully the WHOLE crew will be able to come next time)!

thanksgiving 2012

i was supposed to work from 3-11pm on thanksgiving day

(that's the sacrifice you have to make when you work in healthcare).

but a few hours before i got a call saying they didn't need me!

thanksgiving miracle!

however, they weren't sure how many emergency room patients they were going to get,

so they put me on-call.

which means that i had to have my phone by me every second, 

and every time it rang i was sure that it was the hospital telling me that they needed me.

i was just keeping my fingers crossed than no one in utah was 

cutting their hand off when carving the turkey, getting a bowel obstruction from eating too much,

or crashing their car on their way to grandmother's house.

it was another thanksgiving miracle, because i never  got that call!

thank you citizens of utah for not being stupid!

so since we were unexpectedly getting to spend the day together,

we headed to julie's house for a dinner with some of the whittingham family

(my parents and tyler were in colorado for the game)

and had an UH-mazing thanksgiving dinner!

we also got to celebrate thanksgiving the next saturday with the kents!

that's the plus of getting married: 

twice the family, twice the holidays, twice the love.

(and twice the food, which is dangerous because diana is a VERY good cook)

and i sure lucked out by marrying into the best family ever.

unfortunately i only got one picture the whole day, 

which is a shame because the whole kent family is very good-looking

we have so much to be grateful for this year. 

to name a quick few:

our families, dash, the gospel, our church callings, our home, 

our health, our jobs, our friends, our financial situation, living 

in america, cable tv, taylor swift's new album, nielsens frozen custard, 

and our opportunities we have to travel the world.

and of course, we are grateful for each other.

i don't know where i would be without dawson in my life.

he is without a doubt the best thing that has ever happened to me.

xoxo

and happy thanksgiving!

Turkey Day

Am I embarrassed that I made Dawson take pictures with me on timer so we could remember our first married Thanksgiving?  Maybe.

I worked til 3 on Thanksgiving (holiday pay = worth it) and then we had a rather unorthodox Thanksgiving dinner.  Coach Whit had to be at the hotel for the game the next day so the Marriott put on a feast for all the coaches' and players' families.

We were also lucky enough to have a SECOND Thanksgiving at the Kent's this weekend.  Taedon spiced the day up by slicing his finger open during dinner but since he was "Peter Parker/Spiderman" that day he was very brave.

If the whole point of Thanksgiving is to be with family and stuff yourself so full you have to waddle the rest of the day, I'd say we were very successful.

Thanksgiving Thankfuls

Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Here is what we are thankful for this year:

Dawson

10. Nielsen's Frozen Custard

9. Netflix 

8. A wife/nazi that keeps me in shape

7. Snowmobile/Motorcycle 

6. A place to live that's close to Missy's work and my studies

5. Economic security (as much as a college student and recent grad could possibly have)

4. Friends

3. The Gospel

2. Parents, siblings, in-laws, and nieces/nephews

1. Melissa

Melissa

10. taylor swift
9. utah football

8. nielsen's frozen custard

7. my kindle

6. ranch dressing

5. golds gym

4. our perfect, adorable home

3. the gospel 

2. the people in my life: friends, my incredible parents and siblings, in-laws, plus all my extended family (who are all more like best friends than aunts/uncles/cousins)

1. my UH-mazing husband Dawson