Turkey Day!

I'm finally posting again.  Must mean there was a major holiday or something.  We are in the grind of building a house.  So our lives pretty much consist of keeping our family running, keeping the business running, and working on our house.  All I can think to write about is updates on the progress of our house.  I realize, however, that this is exciting only for our family.  So be grateful that I choose not to bore you with the details.  Let's just say that as of today we're finally done with framing.  Hallelujah!  Once you get through framing things go a lot quicker.  This is a good thing for sure.

Anyhow, Thanksgiving has come and gone.  Craziness.  Especially since I haven't bought any Christmas presents.  Yes, I need to get going on that.  Thanksgiving itself was kind of a crazy day.  We of course had to work on the house in the morning.  And it of course took longer than we thought.  And yes, our kids were home alone all morning on Thanksgiving.  Because that's how we roll these days.  Not to worry though, we made it up to them by taking them to St George.

I'll tell you how the morning went just so you can appreciate the miracle it was that we even made it to Thanksgiving dinner.  We had to dig and pour (with cement) four small footings for our deck.  Even though they were small, those suckers were hard work.  I spent the morning lifting bags of concrete, mixing concrete, and carrying buckets of water.  This is one of those projects that once you start you have to finish.  Finally, at 12:45, I left to get ready for dinner.  And, oh yeah, to pack for St George.  And dinner was happening at 3:00.  This is where you should be impressed….I managed to throw everything in the car for St George and make myself presentable all in an hour.  That's right, it was a Thanksgiving Miracle.  We killed ourselves, but we made it to dinner.  Sigh of relief.

Dinner was amazing and delicious thanks to Kathy.  She outdid herself.  It was great to spend some time with family digesting yummy food.  And then we jumped in the car to drive to St George.  The theme of our Thanksgiving was run, run, run.  But it was worth it to be able to take a mini-vacation to St George.  We haven't had a single weekend off since the summer.  Every weekend is spent working on our house.  For reals.  So we needed this get away and I was determined to make it happen.

St George was so great.  The weather was perfect and we got to stay at Greg and Tracy's new house (which is awesome).  We went rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking, and 4-wheeling.  So much fun (except for the mountain biking - we all got flat tires due to thorns.  Lame)  It was seriously a great trip. So glad we went and were able to spend some time with our family having fun instead of working.  Hooray for St George!

My buddy Sage

Cousins playing on the rocks

Zack is a climbing machine

Cute Sage

At the Candy Cliffs. Super pretty