Thanksgiving

For Thanksgiving this year we went to Taylor dad's house in Las Vegas. We drove up early Thanksgiving morning and it was nice to miss all the traffic! By the time we got there Taylor's stepmom was busy with a million dishes and the kitchen already smelled delicious. She pretty much made anything and everything that 10 people requested in full 9x13 casserole dishes. It was a LOT of yummy food. While we were waiting for the last few dishes and the turkey to cook Will went outside with Taylor and Uncle Evan. I grabbed my camera to kill time since Emma was napping.

Soon enough Will found some squirt guns in the backyard and started to battle with Uncle Evan. 

It started without water, 

then Evan helped Will fill up his gun with the pool water, 

then Will tried to fill it up himself and got soaking wet, 

and finally Will picked up his mostly full water gun and said, laughing, "I going to get you, Evan!"

Eventually we convinced him to shoot the rubber duck in the pool instead of any of us.

Afterwards we changed Will's dripping wet clothes and got ready to eat.

The turkey wasn't quite ready but we were really hungry...

...so we ate everything else instead. (Then we dug into the turkey later.)

My request: sweet potato casserole (YUM.)

We even managed to lure out the teenage boys who had been holed up in their rooms all day playing video games. They ate, had seconds, then returned back to their rooms.

Later, Hailey came with the twins and the four grandkids had lots of fun playing together and leaving toys everywhere while the rest of us lounged on the couch and let our food digest.

There was a beautiful sunset.

And just in case we hadn't eaten enough already, we finished the day off with pies and pumpkin rolls.