Thanksgiving Weekend

We headed up to Salt Lake City/Park City on Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving.  My parents had rented an apartment type place in Park City for us all to stay at and spend Thanksgiving all together.

The trip on Wednesday went smoothly with the kids.  We were not in a hurry, but still managed to make good time only stopping a couple of times for breaks and feedings.  We made our usual stop in Beaver to get some cheese.

I did have to spend some time entertaining in the back seat which is always fun for me...squished between two car seats is my favorite place to sit! ;) The kids did greta though and we made it up to Salt Lake where we met Becca, Erich, Allie, and Allie's sister Gabby at City Creek Town Center.  We ate a late lunch and then wandered around City Creek and also headed over to temple square to see the nativity and the temple.   We enjoyed being out of the car, walking around and spending time with family.  

Excited to see Aunt Becca once we got to the mall! 

Playing with Becca while we ate lunch.  A Nordy girl in the making! 

Checking out the fountains at City Creek with Becca. 

Fun with Uncle Erich

Found Moroni at the top of the temple! 

Calin was happy to have Aunt Becca as his buddy. 

Watching the dancing fountains with Dad. 

Calin would have ran right through these or jumped right in if we'd let him! 

Tender moment...or trying to steal some hair...

Checking out the nativity. 

Wish we'd been able to go and see temple square at night, but still glad we got to go.  

I love this picture of Calin.  He was so happy to be free and I love how this pic shows how he was just off and running! 

Obligatory picture in the alcoves of Salt Lake Temple

 After the mall and temple square we headed up to Park City to have dinner with the family and then did some Just Dance with everyone before we all headed to bed.  It was all kinds of fun and so nice to have some time for all of us to hang out together.

Calin getting ready to do some Just Dance with Becca and Erich! 

Robby and Clara getting in on the dancing too. 

Thanksgiving morning we all got up and headed to Becca's Burn/TRX/Circuit.  Everyone went except for my Dad and Robby who stayed and played with Clara and Calin in the snow in Park City.   We were all quite worn out after our hour and a half workout and ready to go and feast on some turkey! We rushed back to get ready and showered before heading back down into Salt Lake to go to our big Lundberg side Thanksgiving dinner. 

Josef and Summer left a little early so we missed having them in this pic with us! 

We met at a church building with all of the Lundberg side of the family.  It was fun to see everyone and hang out with all my side of the family.  We enjoyed a great meal, wiggle bikes, games, visiting and catching up.

Clara and Grandma doing some feasting. 

Hanging out with Aunt Allie. 

Robby won his bracket of the tape/nose game. 

Playing the states game.  

Erika and I and each others babies.  Jane is 10 days older than Clara.  It is fun to have babies close to the same age (although they are not close to the same size.)
Wish we were closer and so these two could play together! 

 After the big dinner we headed over to Beccas for a little bit before we all went to go and see the hunger games at the movie theater.   My parents took Clara and Calin up to Max and Karens to visit and babysit them while we went to the movie.

The next morning we lounged around a little, and then got ready for the day.  We headed on the bus to the main street in Park City and wandered around there for a bit.  After that we came back home and had leftover turkey dinner for lunch and then sadly had to say goodbye to Josef and Summer who had to head back so Summer could get to work.   Then we let the kids get a nap.  After naps we headed to the outlets to do some Black Friday shopping.  Thanks to my generous family my kids came away with some new cute clothes and coats.  After that we went for a quick dinner at zupas and then headed back to the house.

Reading books with Grandma and Grandpa Friday morning. 

Summer was awesome and played this hiding game with Calin for a while.  He loved it! 

A little Clara and Josef time! 

Riding the bus into town.  

We attempted to take some impromptu family pictures and this was one of them.  

Another picture of all of us.  Sorry Josef, Calin doesn't know how to pose.  

At this point Clara and Calin were both pretty tired from late nights and short naps and both had come down with some colds.  We had planned to head to the temple to see the lights but it was cold and getting late and I knew it would be rough with our poor sick tired kids.  So instead we did another night of Just Dance.

We headed home the next morning and it was a rough drive home.  We left Park City around 10 and Clara slept until we got to Provo.  Calin was having a major melt down being in the car so we decided to stop and do a little more shopping in Provo while we were up there. We went to Toys r Us and got a little of the kids Christmas shopping done.  Then we went and had lunch and after a 2 hour stop continued on our way.  Thankfully both kids fell asleep again and it was smooth driving until a little after Fillmore.  Calin woke up right after Fillmore and was crying and kept trying to itch his legs.  I pulled up his pants and he had hives everywhere.  So we stopped in Beaver to get some Benadryl to help with the itching and hopefully help him to feel better.  We also made a quick stop to get some more cheese since we were there.

Then we got back in the car and headed to Cedar where Robby's parents were meeting us to help us get a Christmas tree.  They were awesome enough to drive all the way up with the truck so that we could get a tree.  There was a nice lot in Cedar where a man has fresh cut trees off of Cedar mountain.   So we were able to get a nice fresh tree without having to hunt around the mountain for it.  Then we were on our way home for the last leg of the trip.  Finally 8 hours later we made it home.  It was a long day home but so nice to make the trip up to spend time with my family!  It was a great Thanksgiving and I'm so grateful for our families and all they do for us.

This is how Clara felt about our 8 hour long trip home.