Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving we made the envious 15 hour drive to Iowa to visit the first born Anderson's.  I thoroughly enjoyed playing with Sam and baby Emily.  Having Abby around was a great surprise too.  Well, not so much a surprise for me as it was for Ma Anderson, but it was fun all the same.  Usually, Abby would be in Utah, spending thanksgiving with one of her roommates.  This year however she decided to surprise her mom and fly out to Iowa.  She came out of the kitchen nonchalantly minutes after we walked in the house.  I thought for sure some complicated revealing of the surprise would come, but the simplicity worked out pretty well- there were squeals and tears!

Thursday we had our Thanksgiving dinner which was delicious and then most went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1, Mom and Sam went to Tangled (movies are a tradition in the Anderson family on Thanksgiving and Christmas).

Friday the ladies all went to Hobby Lobby (Ma Anderson's favorite store in the world.  A Richmond location is coming soon!).  We also spent a lot of time lazing around the house.

Saturday Evan and I rode up to Chicago with Andrew and Abby to drop Abby off at the airport.  While there were tentative plans to hang out in Chicago, the group deemed the weather too cold to make the drive worth while.

Instead we went to Incredible Pizza.

Incredible Pizza is a buffet restaurant with an arcade.  And it is Incredible.  If you dress like a super hero you get $10 worth of games.  We also joined a dance party in the middle of the restaurant and got a free attraction (in addition to games they have mini golf, bumper cars, duckpin bowling, and laser tag).  So at the end of the night the fellas (including little Sam) and I played a round of laser tag.  It was a lot of fun, especially considering another family was playing on the other team and also had little ones.  Evan has a picture of us all in our superhero outfits, but hasn't forwarded it to me yet, so I'll post it later.

Sunday Emily was blessed.  It was wonderful to be there and I am so glad Evan got to be a part of that.  He missed out with Sam because he was really sick, so he only watched from the back.  He even jumped up to pass the sacrament when Andrew was asked so that Andrew could stay with his little family.

It was a great trip to say the least.  I took hardly any pictures, but I did manage to get a couple of Evan singing to Emily.  I feel truly blessed to have married into such a great family, and to have found my perfect companion.