the beck family: Thanksgiving Break

Thanksgiving Break was much anticipated. Byron had been gone so much that I was excited to have him home with us for a few days. Not to mention the amazing food and company present at Thanksgiving time also. We got up to Byron's parents house in time to help with the last minute preparations. This is the first year I can remember when it was only our immediate family. It was a small group, but so nice to not have such a huge production.

THURSDAY - The food was delicious. There is nothing quite like the taste of Thanksgiving dinner. Everything tasted so good! We ate downstairs on two large tables.

After lunch we went over to the church to play in the gym to help the kids relieve some of their excess energy:). They had fun playing basketball speed, jump rope speed, and Eric taught some of us a cool line dance. My kids are quite the jump ropers. They do very well and some of them usually stay in till the end of the game beating out the adults.

That evening was filled with looking through ads to see where some of the adults would head for the sales. Byron is always so willing to go wherever we find some great deals. He loves getting up early the next morning and heading out with his siblings and mom.

Games, games and more games is always part of every holiday up at the Beck's house. My kids really love this part and can't wait to play games all day and night:).

Eric, Mom Beck and Byron

Everybody is busy with last minute preparations in the kitchen.

Melissa making her salad with Bradley close by.

Camille decorating the tables.

Bradley & Timothy were having fun going up and down the stairs together.

Cute Timothy!

The eating has begun!

Tricia, Carter, Johnathan, Tanner, Eric, Parker, Byron & Bradley

Camille, Melissa, Genevieve, Timothy, Michael, Mom & Dad Beck

Michael & Genevieve announced they were expecting - so exciting to have another little baby added to our family.

Speed basketball

Bradley with his Grandma

Pie at last! Parker, Johnathan, Carter & Bradley waiting patiently.

Bradley & Timothy playing downstairs.

Card games - so intense!

Crazy Carter & Bradley

Looking through the ads.

More games - Camille & Johnathan playing Connect 4.

We ended up spending the night so that Byron could go shopping the next morning.

FRIDAY - The morning came way too early. I actually tried to do some of the online sales available around midnight. The website for Kohl's was so slow and frustrating. I finally had all of my order ready when it totally logged me out. I was so frustrated after fighting with it for about 2 hours that I headed to bed. I think I fell asleep just in time for Byron to get out of bed. Byron ended up going onto the Kohl's website when he woke up and got our order placed in 10 minutes. I guess Kohl's isn't set up for such a huge amount of people all at once.

Byron came back with most everything we had talked about. He saves us so much money every year being willing to shop these sales.

We headed to the movie "Fantastic Mr. Fox." The ratings were really high for this movie, but I wasn't impressed at all. It was pretty weird actually. The kids loved it though - I guess it was just at their level.

The rest of the day we hung out with the Becks then headed back home that evening.

SATURDAY - The long awaited BYU vs. UTAH game was this afternoon. Camille, Tanner, and Johnathan were lucky enough to go with their dad. The game was pretty intense and luckily BYU came out ahead in the end winning - 26 to 23. Byron was even nice enough to let the kids go onto the field at the end of the game.