Rollacopia 2012

I have been looking forward to Thanksgiving (or more accurately, Mom and Katy coming to UT for a week) for months.  Imagine my disappointment when the night before they arrive Lucy starts the croup cough. SO Disappointed!! We were lucky because Lucy saw the Dr. the next day and got the steroid to take down the inflammation.  The Dr even prescribed us the steroid for the babies so when they got it (only Joyce did) we would have the medicine in hand.  Danny, the babies and I quickly got a horrible cold as well. It ruined our week because we didn't want to infect Ruby with croup. Mom was nice and drove an hour to visit us every day. Lucy fell asleep on her every time. 

Fortunately we still got to hang out a little. On Tuesday Danny watched all the sick kids (while feeling pretty awful himself) and let me go to the outlets for some Christmas shopping with the girls. We had so much fun and Ruby was an angel after for shopping for 4 hours.

On Wednesday Mom came up to stay with us and get ready for Thanksgiving. We all met up for dinner in Lehi at Texas Roadhouse and just kept the kids far apart.  Mom was super nice and took the kids home and sent Danny and I out to see Skyfall. I popped cough drops the whole time but we still had a wonderful little date. My dad was able to fly in late that night for the holiday.

On Thursday Mom put the turkey in and we spent a lazy morning watching the parade and playing around the house. Early that afternoon we were joined by Oz, Lillian and Kiara as well as the rest of our fam.  Katy gave us our theme for the year (although no, we don't usually ave a theme, this year was special) Rollacopia.  Traditionally Thanksgiving is a let down for the Anderson girls. We usually just eat the rolls and a little turkey.  So why not have a wide variety of rolls and celebrate our appreciation for them?! Katy made us all shirts and Becca literally made a Rollacopia as our centerpiece. Our table was overflowing with delicious rolls this year. We also had a variety of delicious butters to go with them.

 Kid table!!

 It was a delicious meal. Mom outdid herself. I wish we had put the babies to bed and fed them earlier because that was the only downside-they were sick and cranky and didn't have a great meal. As soon as they were in bed, however, Danny and I could actually eat and enjoy ourselves.

The next day we spent doing whatever Dad wanted to do-which included a trip to Scheels AND Cabelas.  Danny and I sent Lucy off shopping withe everyone and we went home with the babies tor est after Scheels. We all met up that night at Riverwoods for some delicious Bajio (obvs), to visit Becca and work and to meet Santa. It was a beautiful night and we had so much fun feeling Christmasy.

On Saturday we had a mini-Birthday party for Dad. Ruby and Lucy had a lot of fun helping Baba unwrap his presents.

 from Katy

Grandma surprised all the girls with some presents too. Each household got a Little People Nativity. The girls love it and it is currently the only Christmas decoration up in our house (moving at Christmas is so depressing).

Then we headed over to Pat's BBQ. We were right by the stage and got to hear the best blue grass player. We were dancing and bobbin all over the place! Ruby also enjoyed her first rib.

 On the way over to our Jacobs Family Reunion we stopped at Nielsen's Frozen Custard-our favorite place. As we went through the drive through I heard someone calling my name-Grandma, Grandpa, Mark and Kevin were all inside eating before the reunion too! We had an impromptu mini-reunion before the real reunion:)

 Reunion!

 This was during the devotional. We had a lot more fun than we look here.