Thanksgiving 2012 was spent with the Brown/Grafel Family. We all went down to good 'ole Afton, Wyoming and spent the holiday at Grandpa Brown's house. We had 22 people for Thanksgiving dinner. The food was amazing and made wonderful leftovers! :) We made our Gingerbread houses of course. This year we made a trailer instead because we wanted to try something a little bit different. It is very stereotypical with a car in the front yard (a Toyota Landcruiser) on blocks, a satellite dish on the roof with a tarp and tires, a huge inflatable snowman, a rainbow colored awning with a grill, propane tanks, 5 dogs, and other little touches. We had fun making it and laughed the whole time. Not sure what we will do next year to top that! We also went Christmas tree hunting. There was just enough snow but not too much so that was nice. We found a little tree that Katie and I love. It is littler than others we have had but it is so cute we just had to get it. Melanie got the biggest tree we have ever seen....not sure how she will fit it in the house. :) It was a nice holiday and we really enjoyed seeing everyone....we love you all! Wish we all lived closer to each other so we could get together more often.
So I finally got my Halloween photos posted! We didn't have Katie for the night of Halloween but we were able to go to the Stake Trunk or Treat Activity at the church. Katie was "Major Trouble" this year which went along with her dad's costume of a helicopter pilot (it was the uniform he actually wore in Kuwait but it made a great costume). I just wore my skeleton shirt and earrings and decided to paint my face. Jason had to dress up for work on Monday and they all went bowling together in costume which was funny. The pumpkin is what Jason did for a work pumpkin carving contest...which he won of course because his pumpkin turned out awesome!
