Sunday, December 7, 2008

Thanksgiving in Sunriver

I am a little late in getting this posted, but better late than never! For Thanksgiving we went to stay with Nana and Baba in Sunriver. As compared to the last several years, the weather was amazingly warm. We even went without coats a couple times! We had a wonderful Thanksgiving meal, as usual, and the boys had lots of fun playing games with everyone. On Friday, me and John and Jessica did the Black Friday shopping, but went with the goal of not going overboard this year. We were successful and I feel like we have done pretty well at following the Advent Conspiracy theme of spending less on gifts and spending more time creating memories and helping out others. I am also making some gifts, so hopefully that will get done in time!! Friday night we went to the Sunriver Grand Illumination and saw Santa arrive in a blaze of fireworks, which was really effective. They had arranged for a helicopter to fly over the lodge and then lit some sort of firework something that was shooting out the back, and it looked like a comet fly through the sky. Santa then came riding down the street in his sleigh pulled by a tractor. The boys thought it was pretty neat and we then had a very pleasant walk through the forest back to the car. On Saturday we went to the Lodge again and visited Gingerbread Junction and went to a really neat craft bazaar. We then ended the day going to a Civil War party in Caldera Springs at the Lakehouse. It was unfortunate that the Beavers did not win, or even got close, but it was fun and the food was great. We were commenting that Eli and Evan were the happiest Beaver fans in the state as they were still running around cheering go Beavers with two minutes left and the score was not even close. We also got to see the lights go on at Caldera which was very pretty. It was a great weekend in that we got to do some fun things, but we didn't feel like we were constantly doing an activity and we got to spend lots of time playing games and just being together.
Mt Hood as we were driving over to Sunriver

A friendly game of Go Fish
Thanksgiving feast

The Sunriver Lodge Grand Illumination

Arrival of Santa and the Mrs.


Gingerbread Junction- there were amazing things that people had made with gingerbread, frosting, candy and fondt
Evan liked this house because the roof looked like peppermint bark

Game time!

GO BEAVERS!!

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