THANKSGIVING

This year the day after Thanksgiving we traveled to Merced, CA to visit Steven's Aunt Donna and Uncle Bob. We stayed until Sunday morning and had a wonderful time spending time with family we don't see very often.

Uncle Bob works with glass as a hobby. He makes bowls and platters in a kiln as well as stained glass windows and just about anything you can think of. These two windows are in the master bath in their home. My favorite is the sunflower.

This is a mural in their kitchen. I love it!!

Uncle Bob is a dentist and so are all of his sons. This is his biggest project in the office of one of his sons.

Thanks Aunt Donna, Uncle Bob, and clan for entertaning us!

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Thanksgiving day we had lunch with some friends in the ward. Here are some pictures of my first Thanksgiving away from home successes:

Gi-normo-rolls:

Pumpkin cheesecake-Yum!

Cranberry-turkey gravy. YUM!!

Even though we are going home for most of December, I put up my Christmas tree this year the week of Thanksgiving so we could get in the holiday mood. Here's picture:

And what you all really want to know: What has Jackson been up to?!

Reading the Book of Mormon

Sweeping the floor.

Checking out the wildlife up close and personal.

This is a sealion/seal that came up on the beach. The surf you can see is the edge of the water where the beach starts. He came up and looked at us for a little while. He is swimming away in this picture.