Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was a ridiculously busy week (thanks to us!!). In our church we give babies a name and a blessing in their first few months of life (and then when children turn 8 they are baptized). So we decided to hold off giving Kenzington her blessing until we could have family join us if they wanted to. We opted for Thanksgiving since it seemed to be the best time for most to come. We had an awesome turn out and a fun week with everyone.

Greg's sister Kim lives a few miles from us and she agreed to host all of Greg's side that came. Greg's parents, his sister Katie and her husband Spencer, Greg's brother Jeff and his wife Karen and daughter Camille all came and stayed with Kim. Greg's brother Brad and his family live here so they were here also. The only one we missed was Melanie because she is on a mission to the Dominican Republic. They all arrived by Wednesday.

Thanksgiving morning the men went and played football bright and early. Greg dislocated his shoulder which made the next activity fun to watch with him. We (meaning his sister Kim and everyone else agreed!) decided we should start a family tradition of playing kickball anytime we are all together since we have enough people to make it fun, especially once the grandkids are a little older.

The teams were the "Original Leavitts" vs "the in-laws". Needless to say us "in-laws" got our butts spanked. It was a ton of fun though and brought out my competitive side. Greg had never seen me play "sports" like this and I think he was pleasantly surprised that I could hold my own.



While we played the "triplets" were good and sat in their seats. They lasted about an hour before they called the game quits for us.
Kenzington, Charlotte (Kim's), and Camille (Karen's)
Charlotte and Camille are only a day apart and poor Kenzington is 5 months behind them!


After kickball we went back to Kim's house where we enjoyed Thanksgiving with all of them. We had to leave a little early from their festivities because my family was on their way.

My mom and step dad, along with my brother Brantley and his wife Tasha all flew in Thanksgiving afternoon. My brother Theron and his wife Hiedi and kiddos Logan and Lydia made the awesome 14 hour drive and arrived within minutes of the others. Unfortunately my brother Derek and his family couldn't make it. We opted to do carne asada burritos for dinner and have the big Thanksgiving meal on Friday.

Friday morning Greg decided to go hit up some really early sales and instead of buying some great bargains, we got to fix a couple of cars!


He didn't remember that my brother was parked in our driveway so he ended up side swiping them around 5 in the morning. AWESOME!! Luckily it was easily fixed and relatively inexpensive. Gotta love it!

The rest of Friday was uneventful. We made our first turkey, on the grill, and it was awesome. After we ate we all just "bummed" around. It wouldn't be a true get together without someone wrestling someone.






I didn't get any pictures from Saturday but we decided to get together with Greg's family at the park again and play another game of kickball. This time it was the Leavitt's (minus Greg) against the Shattucks. There was some smack talk going on between the two teams but I am proud to say that despite all of us being out of shape the Shattucks whooped the Leavitts big time!! I however over-did it in my competitiveness and tore a leg muscle while trying to dodge getting hit (which I succeeded in) and ended up sitting out for the last half or so. It was a good day.