Thanksgiving Weekend

Thanksgiving felt a bit odd to me. I want to start by saying that it was a good Thanksgiving. Arden's cousins from Nevada came and they all hung out. That was a lot of fun for the kids.

However, Thanksgiving felt odd to me this year. This was the third year I've celebrated it in UT. The previous two years, we were visitors for the holiday. This year I am living here. I found myself missing my parents and the rest of my FL family a lot. As a matter of fact, I've been missing them since around Thanksgiving, until after Christmas. I just wanted to be with them a lot. What has given me piece of mind is knowing that I'm going to visit them in a few months.
Newel started his new job in the beginning of November, so I've reduced the number of days I'm working significantly. With that, the children and I have been adjusting to a new schedule and new routines. We were also without a car for a while. We didn't need two cars in Cali, so we were down to one. Here we need two vehicles.

Also, coming to the acceptance that this is going to be my home for at least three years has been harder than I thought. Don't get me wrong. This place is great, there's lots of outdoor activities and nice people. So what's my problem? I feel that I wasn't given the choice to come live here. We had to live here due to the bad economy. I know it sounds petty, but I felt like my freedom to choose was taken away. I know it will be fine. As a matter of fact I'm starting to like it more. Also, I know we are here for a purpose(s), but sometimes, it's hard to see the light, when it feels a bit cloudy.
So, for Thanksgiving, I wasn't in a celebration mood. I'm grateful for many things...too many to list, but I just didn't feel like entertaining, cooking, getting ready for Arden to go on overload, etc.

As part of the festivities, Arden and his cousins launched rockets. They had a lot of fun...even though after a while Arden started getting scared of the rockets.

Overall, the weekend was fun and nice. It wasn't a big event like I thought it might be. I liked that it was low key. We had dinner with the Primas, Uncle D, and great-ma Olsen. After dinner, we headed over to Aunt Cupcake's house for dessert. We also had a chance to hang out with Newel's cousin, Craig aka Goyo.