Fairies and Football: November 2017 (Part 2

We went to St. George for Thanksgiving.
It was a fun trip. The cousins were all so excited to be together.
I love how much they love each other!
And we had so many things to celebrate, Thanksgiving and the beginning of the Christmas season.
Plus three birthdays.

We gave my mother-in-law a puzzle for an early birthday present.

It was a puzzle of St. George. It was set up on a card table for the first few days we were there.

The kids loved walking to the park right by their grandparent's house.

Look how cute Ty is this outfit that I bought for Eli that Eli never wore.

I'm glad that at least one of my boys got to wear it, even if it was just for a day.

Ty got passed around a lot. But he didn't mind at all.

Here's Ty and Nana watching Eli swim. Eli was always the last one in the pool and he never told us he was done. We would eventually just have to tell him that it was time to get out.

Here's some pictures from the pool. The pool is always such a fun part of our St. George trips.

Lexi lost a tooth the first time we swam. It became loose as she jumped in the pool.

She cried and cried. She always does when she has a tooth about to fall out.

Eventually she pulled it out herself. She was so proud.

Anxiously waiting Grandpa to open the pool cover.

Attempting to take a synchronized jumping picture.

When Ty wasn't being held his siblings and cousins made sure he had lots of toys to play with.

Ty and his uncle Jared both wearing Seahawk green shirts.

We had decided to have the cousins do a gift exchange. They had a dollar spending limit and they were supposed to get a gift for the cousins just younger than them. They were all so excited to give their gifts.

Lexi gave Addie eye shadow. She was so excited to do make overs together.

Devin's birthday was just a few days after Thanksgiving so we gave him a gift early.

A movie directing clapper for him to use while making videos for his YouTube channel.

We had a lot of fun using the jump rope that Lexi got.

The bedroom that we stayed in was so bright. It was great for taking sleeping pictures of Ty.

Sean made a bracket for a ping pong tournament. We did the four Harry Potter houses and used a sorting hat to place everyone just like we did a few years ago when we hosted Thanksgiving at our house. The kids were so excited. Especially Parker.

"The Cousin Band" gave us a performance. And they even wrote an original song.

I made everyone gather for some group pictures.
Some of them may have moaned and complained but I know that they secretly were happy.

It was so bright. It was hard to look at the camera as you can see by Lexi's face.

We went and checked out the new family history center by the temple.

Here's a picture of Halle doing a "test" to tell you how many kids you're going to have.
Avery is now convinced that she is going to have two sons and two daughters.

And then we walked over to the temple.

And then we drove over to the carousel.

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My in-laws bought so all tickets to a live nativity at Tuacahn.
The kids didn't know where we were going. We just told them we were going up into the mountains.
It was so fun to hear their guesses of what we were going to be doing.
We dressed Ruby up in her sheep costume for the show. She thought she was going on stage.