The Real Thanksgiving

People are always asking for a White Christmas, but this year we experienced a White Thanksgiving. Going along with the white was plenty of cold. It was a whole new thing for this California girl. The high was 21 degrees and the low was 7.

While we waited for the turkey to get done, I decided that it would be a good time to go out and try to find the three geocaches closest to Cory's house. It was so cold out that when we did find them that the ink in the pen was frozen and we couldn't sign the log. My fingers were stinging not to mention that both of the boys had been walking in the gutters and were soaking wet and freezing.


Jenny, Matt, and the girls came down for the evening and to share dessert. It was a very enjoyable day -- as long as we stayed inside.

Stephen, Cory, and Suzanne decided to give up sleep in preference to hanging out and making new friends in Walmart. They had quite the tales to tell upon their return. We spent the majority of the day with Jenny's family along with Lila who went to play with her cousins. The evening we joined Cory's family to watch Provo's first electric Christmas parade. I'm really surprised that anybody came out to it with the temperature where it was.




We traveled home on Saturday. It was nice to get back to a little warmth. It was also nice to find that Jared and Ashley (along with Clara and Kevin) had put out a few of the Christmas decorations to make things festive.

Thanksgiving Break

This is the year that Stephen and I determined that we should spend most of our vacations on the road to visit our children. It is great seeing the kids, but all that time in the car is tiring.

We left right after I got home from school on Friday, November 19th, and headed to New Mexico. After a few short hours in a roadside rest, we managed to arrive in Las Cruces by about 12:30 Saturday afternoon. It was really good to be able to spend 2 1/2 days visiting with Curtis. He didn't want to show us off to the members of his university ward, but other than that he let us move around the city unhindered.

We of course saw the city through geocaching as we visited many sites that Curtis would never have thought to taken us to otherwise. We even had the opportunity to sit in the theater with Curtis and watch the latest episode of Harry Potter.



We took the scenic route to Utah, stopping to visit Mesa Verde National Park near Moab. It was somewhere that I've wanted to visit for many years and we finally made it. I can't imagine how the Native Americans could survive the winters living on those cliffs -- it was freezing cold while we were there. The structures were amazing though.