Thanksgiving Weekend

Our Thanksgiving Weekend was so much fun! We started out Thursday with pulling out Christmas Decorations and putting up some of them. We watched some football and then headed off to the Merrill's house at around 2:30. We hung out with Shelly while we waited for Ryan to get home from work. Once Ryan got home we jumped into food mode. Jacob and Ryan did the fried turkey (it was so good!) and the rest of us chipped in making different things. I made the Green Bean Casserole and messed it up and Jacob made the yummy mashed potatoes that he thinks he messed up... so our contributions weren't as great as we wanted them to be but dinner was great! After dinner we watched more football and waited until it was time for dessert. After dessert we headed home.

On Friday we planned to go to the Titanic exhibit at the Luxor. Jacob got free tickets at a Car Show earlier in the year and they needed to be used before December 31st. So off we went to the Luxor. Local tickets are $24.00 or $27.00 for tourists. I'm not sure I would have been as happy with the exhibit if I would have paid that much but Jacob and I enjoyed it very much. They had some pretty awesome stuff, plates, mirrors, sinks, postcards etc. They gave us each a card with information about a passenger and at the end you can see if you lived or not. Kira and I lived, Jacob did not.

After the Luxor we headed off to the Bellagio. They change their flower garden every quarter and we caught the last weekend of the fall display.

Kira didn't like the talking tree so much.

Bellagio also has the World Largest Chocolate Fountain.. which was kinda cool and a little gross at the same time.

After the chocolate fountain we headed out to the water fountains..... Kira has never really liked them but likes the music. So we walked out and watched a water show

The Bellagio does a water show every 15 minutes or so to a different song each time. It was fun to watch.

Then on Saturday we went to the Motor Trend Auto Show, we got free tickets from 7-11 so we thought we would check it out. It was WAY smaller than the Auto Shows in Los Angeles and even smaller than the one in Anaheim but we had fun anyway. Jacob looked at trucks (his is running out of steam) and I am still covetting the Ford Flex. Kira had so much fun at the Auto Show she got to get inside the cars and drive and press buttons, the only way to get her out of one car was to promise her there would be another.

CHEESE!

We were a little sorry for our fun weekend to be over, but real life always comes to take over.

We hope you all had as fun of a weekend as we did! We hope the spirit of this season finds your home and family.