Thanksgiving

This is a bit late, but I never seem to be able to get around to blogging lately. This Thanksgiving we got to spend time with both my family and Ryan's family. It was a bit busy, but we had a lot of fun. My brother and his wife and two little kids stayed with us at our apartment. Ryan and I made a feeble attempt to baby proof our apartment but obviously we don't have a lot of experience with this stuff, cause we did not do that good of a job. It was so much fun waking up to these cuties, though, that we didn't really care. And my nephew loves cereal as much as Ryan does; they were like twins. I just love how cute and cuddly babies are when they wake up.

On Wednesday night the whole family had arrived in Utah so I made some clam chowder for dinner for everyone. It was the first time I'd ever tried the recipe and it turned out amazing. We ate the soup in bread bowls. Everyone loved it. We had a whole pot full of soup and there was barely enough leftovers for one person. I'm definitely going to be making that one again. My dad also made this delicious chocolate melting cake. It was seriously amazing. Here's everyone enjoying their dinner.

My niece crammed both of her feet into this shoe. I thought it was funny so I took a picture.

Now this is the sad part. I feel terrible but I completely forgot about my camera after this so I didn't get any more pictures of our Thanksgiving holiday. We spent most of the day on Thanksgiving with Ryan's family. We had delicious turkey and gravy and mashed potatoes and some raspberry jello stuff that is my favorite. After we left Ryan's parent's house, we went back to my little sister's apartment where my family had Thanksgiving dinner, and we helped them eat pie. I think I had 5 pieces, and then I ate more for breakfast the next day.

On Friday we spent some time shopping. We went crib shopping and found a few cribs that we liked but we still need to decide on the one we want. We also went to the fabric store and got some crafty stuff and I bought fabric to make a quilt for the baby's crib. I'm making a gender neutral one with creams and browns and green. I think it's going to be so cute. I'm not exactly sure how to quilt though, so for now I'm just cutting out fabric squares and piecing them together to find a pattern I like. I was working on this last night. It took me all week to cut out those pesky squares.

My mom brought a sewing machine for me out from St. Louis with her when she came to visit, so now I have a sewing machine to use to make this quilt. Hopefully when we find out the gender of our baby, (and when I get better at quilting), I can make more quilts and cute things. I'm so excited.

Now everyone is gone and we're back to boring school and work. We miss everyone and we're so glad my family could come out to visit. I love Thanksgiving and I'm so thankful for both of our families and the love they show Ryan and I.