All of Derek siblings, and his parents, live in the valley. My brother, and niece and nephew, live in Spanish Fork. My parents were even in Utah for Christmas visiting too! We spent a major amount of time driving in the car to every ones home, but it was well worth it.
It snowed every day we were in Utah. In one day, in West Jordan we had almost 9 inches of snow. Nine inches would shut down Arkansas for 3 days..lol
On our wedding anniversary we celebrated Christmas with the Thueson Clan. Here's the whole family!
The dinner was hosted at Diane's house with her husband Steve, as Chef of the evening. He is quite the cook.
We had cedar planked smoked salmon, spiral sliced ham, and turkey. All of the siblings brought side dishes, and there was even homemade rolls. They smelled delicious. We also took quite a few pictures, and had a cookie decorating contest. My creation won most professional looking (I was a cake decorator at one time) The kids had so much fun rolling out the dough, baking and decorating. Some of the creations were quite colorful!
All of the cousins cracked me up!The boys spent most of time downstairs in the den playing video games, and the girl cousins upstairs playing barbies. They only joined together for food and pictures..lol
That was not all the family we visited - the next post will be devoted to the Harrison Clan.
Till next time....
2 comments:
Looks like a great time! I love how each family wore the same colored shirts to group them together - what a smart idea!
yeah, it worked okay, except Dereks brother Damon and his wife wore the same color as our family..lol..
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