The Baldwin Family Adventures: Thanksgiving in Idaho

Yes, Christmas is almost here and I still haven't blogged about our trip to Idaho for Thanksgiving. Here is the short but sweet version of our trip.
We decided to drive up Wednesday morning so as to avoid any night time driving problems. Anna was an angel and slept most of the way. We had fun visiting with family that day. Wednesday night I made my first pumpkin cheesecake for our feast the next day. It turned out pretty good. I don't like pumpkin pie one bit, YUCK!!! But pumpkin cheesecake, that is a whole different story. Thanksgiving day was lots of fun. We ate lots of great food and had a wonderful time visiting with family. After our Thanksgiving feast we went for a walk around the Green Belt. Missy and Briant had fun chasing the ducks and geese.

Everyone had fun throwing snow at each other and at random objects and animals. We even got some good family pictures. Thanks Missy!!!

By that time we were on the verge of turning into popsicles. We went home and finalized our Black Friday shopping strategies. Devin and I decided to be really lame and just go when Anna woke up. Well, at 3am Anna decided to get up and BARF all over everything. As we were cleaning things up I thought, heck!, I might as well go shopping....but I only went on line and bought some fabric so I didn't have to fight the lines at JoAnn's. (But this last week I found out that my order had been canceled because it is all out of stock or bla bla bla....I should have just gone to JoAnn's at 3am. Next time I won't make that mistake.) Anna slept well the rest of the night. We took our time in the morning and headed over to Khols which means less than 5 minutes into the store to pick up what you want, and 45 minutes of standing in the LONGEST SLOWEST line ever. Why do we do this? For the glory of saying we did and to make our pennies stretch a little further.
Friday afternoon I went with Missy and Briant to see New Moon while Devin and Anna took a nap. This movie was SO much better than the first. But I've decided that I don't like going to the movies without Devin.
We went to a really yummy all-you-can-eat pizza place called Craigo's for dinner. It was REALLY good. I can't wait to go back. I am really boring, but I love pizza. I could eat pizza all the time.
Saturday we drove up to Ashton to spend some time with Kyle, Kat, and their girls. Anna loves playing with her GIRL cousins. It was fun to see Anna and Kami playing together. Kami is 6 months older than Anna. Last time when we went up, Kami was walking and Anna still hadn't figured out how to roll over. Now that Anna can keep up with Kami they have tons of fun together. Kami just kept saying, "Anna, Anna," and Anna would just follow her around. These two really need to have more time to play together. All four of the girls slept in the same room that night. Ashley was so cute with Anna as she was freaking out before she fell asleep. Ashely kept saying, "It's ok Anna, It's ok." What a good kid. The girls didn't get mad that Anna was screaming, they just tried to calm her down. Anna stopped crying and went right to sleep. I think Ashley is ready to start babysitting.
The next morning we all went to church. Of course the girls got some good cuddle time with Devin before things really starting going in the morning.

Too bad we had to go home after church. Oh but don't worry, we'll be back! Anna did ok on the drive home. She slept for quite a while but then she was at breaking point from about Bountiful until we got home. Thanks to string cheese, gold fish, crackers and anything else that would keep her happy we made it home ok. We sang lots and lots of songs. Sometimes Anna didn't like the songs and tried to plug her ears.