UTAH VISIT
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| So I found a steal of a deal on flights if I travelled to UT on Halloween. The kids and I thought it would be great to go see some family for the weekend, so we hopped on a plane, and went and did our trick-or-treating there. |
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| We visited both grandparents, and saw a lot of my side of the family. We did a coupon scavenger hunt for dinner one night, a classic, as it was a yearly tradition growing up in my family as the Happenings book was expiring. We went to dinner with Stu to El Farol, but the rest of the Curtis family was out of town on their many adventures, so we missed them. |
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| As we were leaving, it started snowing and the boys were so excited to be able to run around in the snow for a few minutes. You see, now that we've lived in the coast of Mississippi for almost 3 years, and Nevada for the 4 years before that, they have been snow-deprived. I was happy for them until they had to de-ice our plane, which made us miss our layover in Denver, and get home 10 hours later. In good and bad news there's another story that goes along with that, and the airline ended up refunding all our money for another mistake they made, so the trip ended up being free! |
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| The Bolkes (Blair's sister & family) were road tripping, and came and saw us in Biloxi for a week. We kept busy, busy, busy! We had a shrimp boil, and I made jambalaya for the first time, we roasted hot dogs, and had a campfire & smores. We went gator watching, pier walking, park hopping, sightseeing. We strolled the streets of Ocean Springs and got Tatonuts. We spent a day in New Orleans and went to the Audubon aquarium there, and Cafe du Monde for beignets. We ate at The Shed and Darwells and the Beau Rivage. As you can tell, we had lots of fun. |
and of course there are always pretty sunset beach photos when you go to the beach in the evening:
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| Annie |
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| Dan joins the fun |
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| Blair & Claire |
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| The family at The Shed, eating some BBQ |
Xander was working on a science fair project. Experiment time.
It was my very first time hosting Thanksgiving. Everything turned out (cooked the turkey in a bag), and Blair even got to join us for 1/2 hour and then had to go back to work.
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| Our friends, the Bennetts joined. Our husbands work together, and both had to work on Thanksgiving, so we figured it might just be us, so we decided we were fine with whatever worked out. |
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| Claire and her little co-conspirator friend Jamie, who kept finding things to get into. |
