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Friday, November 27, 2009

A Great Thanksgiving

We had a very busy Thanksgiving with friends and family. It started with a tradition our friends, the Manwarings, introduced to us. We met up at the local rail-trail and had a 5K run with several friends including the the Weeds, Walkers, Manwarings and Mitchells along with Tom and Jocelyn Harris. We had prizes for best times, best dressed, sweatiest runner and so on. It was a good way to start the day.

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Kelli made medals for all the kids

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Our townhouse is right next to a new hotel, which is separated from us by a huge 30 foot wall. We always thought it would be fun to set up a rope and let the kids climb it with a harness on. Needless to say, they were all excited as we set up the ropes, but once they got on the wall they either chickened out or said they were too cold to do it. So we harnessed up and had races climbing to the top. Micki was the first person to scale the wall, Jocelyn the first pregnant person to scale the wall and Tom the fastest person at 17 seconds.

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We had worked up a good appetite by this time and the turkey was ready to be eaten. We all settled in for the usual Thanksgiving fare, but this year everything just tasted a little better than usual.

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We let dinner settle in then indulged in pies in all their varieties.

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Then it was on to an old Adams family tradition - Indian Leg Wrestling. Even the little babies got in on the action.

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By this time the kids were worn out and we sent them to bed. We finished off the night with a nice game of Acquire and called it a night. It was a good time had by all.

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4 comments:

McArthur Family said...

Looks like it was a blast! Love that you scaled the wall...I wonder what your neighbors thought...what a fun family you have.

Dannielle said...

It looks like you guys had an awesome turkey day! Wish we could have been there! We had a flag football game in which Dallin took me down by kicking me in the side of the head and I have had a headache ever since. GOOD TIMES! We love and miss you all! Dan

Holly said...

It was a lot of fun! Thanks so much for having us Micki! We loved spending it with you guys.

Dave and Mel said...

maybe someday we can celebrate something with you guys again-- looks like it was a great day and I'm sure very tasty. Love the picture of you and the potatoes, next to rice, potatoes are my favorite food :)