We were excited to travel up to Rexburg for Thanksgiving this year! Nana and Papa Val were very accommodating and we enjoyed watching Papa Val work on building another cabin :*) We also enjoyed Shane and Mandy's company along with Gage and Lily and all the pets! We ended up staying in a nearby hotel between Idaho Falls and Rexburg. I wasn't feeling well most of the time and it helped to be able to rest a bit. We stayed at the Ameritel Inn and, amazingly, Jase really liked the beds! They let us onto the 4th floor and we enjoyed a really quiet atmosphere with soup/cookies the first night and amazing hot breakfasts every morning (with gluten/casein free food for Ash!).
Thanksgiving dinner was amazing! Nana really went all-out this year--my favorite was the cranberry sauce and turkey! We also were able to visit Great-Grandma Elsberry and Aunt Sharon while we were up there. They are in high spirits and were in the midst of decorating for Christmas. They, too, shared with us lots of yummy food and good stories. Ash and Jonah loved playing fetch with Toby, their black toy poodle.
On Saturday Nana took all of us out to lunch at Cafe Rio...one of our favorite places to eat! We mostly just relaxed, enjoyed family and food, and drove back Sunday morning. Overall an amazing holiday and trip. I loved that we tried to focus, as a family, on things we were grateful for the whole month. The 1st November FHE we started a list (trying to get to 100 before Thanksgiving) of what we were grateful for. We almost made it on paper...but came up with over 100 in the car on the ride up to Idaho. We have indeed been very blessed this year!
