Thanksgiving 2012

For Thanksgiving this year we were able to visit Utah;  Hanna, Logan, & Connor in Provo.  Even Trey escaped New Mexico for the week.  Traveling has always been an experience, and it was again this time.  JH was able to get us great prices on tickets, but it also meant a long layover at DFW (a very nice airport, BTW), which made for a long day of travel on either end of our trip.  So much better than running from flight to flight for sure.  I will take it any day!  But we were so blessed to have traveled on what seems like the least-traveled days as there were no lines, traffic to and from the airports was extremely light, and it all went so well it was scary.  

Connor & Grampa

We were able to catch up with our now six-month-old grandson, Connor.  Yes, I'm totally biased about members of my family, but he's a champ.  He's rolling around and on the hairy edge of crawling.  (As JH continually tells the kids, the "drool line" is about to be raised!)  He is nearly in perpetual smile mode - a happy boy and just about as good a baby as comes.  Even as a newborn he had a wonderful, expressive face, and that has only gotten more so. So it was nothing for him to make his way further into our hearts.  We are so happy for Hanna and Logan to be blessed with this little soul.  And he is a huge blessing to us all.

JH & Kids (Salt Lake Temple behind)

During the three days we actually spent there we were able to go to Temple Square, which I have seen twice in my life; once when on a family vacation when I was five and then on my way to the MTC.  We got there in the late afternoon the day before Thanksgiving.  Logan's new office is right across the street so as soon as he got off work he was able to join us.  Someday I will go back when I can spend more time, even going through the Salt Lake Temple.  

JH, Wade & Victor

We also visited JH's friends who relocated to the Salt Lake Valley from here a number of years ago.  JH still talks to Victor on a nearly daily basis, and when they started talking that evening it was like they hadn't seen each other in ages.  (Yeah, I thought women were gabby!)  Another dear friend was able to stop by, too. The Lord raised up such great friends for JH in these two good men.  It was a nice evening!

JH made his famous (to us) casseroles, showing Hanna how to do that, and then did up a big turkey on Thanksgiving.  I showed Hanna how to make gravy, although I'm not sure many people even eat it anymore.  *I* did and I think she did a great job, if I do say so myself.

Hanna and Logan were such wonderful hosts... they gave up their very comfortable bedroom to us and squished themselves on an air mattress in Connor's room.  Trey slept on the couch.  It was cozy in their little apartment, but it was full of family love.  Connor couldn't have been better with all the changes to his little world.

It was a good trip.  If you haven't heard it before.... I hate living so very far from family!!!