Thanksgiving with the Coopers

We celebrated Thanksgiving with my family this year.  Dinner was held at Grandma and Grandpa Coopers home in Wellsville.  It was our family, along with Steph's, Jocelynn's, and April's families.  Before we ate, we went around the room and told some things we were thankful for.  It was so nice to hear grandma and grandpa's testimonies.  Grandpa talked about how thankful he was for Grandma.  He also talked about when he came back from the war and saw the Statue of Liberty. He said not at day goes by that he does not thank God for America.  He also was thankful for his posterity. After we all had our turns and finished wiping away our tears, we sat down to a nice meal..The food was wonderful as always.  Grandma made the turkey and Kyle made a yummy ham.  We just sat around and visited..

Later that evening, we went out to Jocelynn's hose to stay the night.  Bryce had to go back home to go to work, so the kids and I stayed out in Paradise.  Jocie and I went shopping for about an hour that night.  Then we shopped again the next morning for a few hours.  It was fun to spend that time together.  The boys had a fun time playing with Ty.

 Friday was Stephanie's 45 birthday, so we celebrated by going to play wally ball, eating dinner at Chili's and then we went to "Catching Fire" (Hunger Games).  It was fun to all be together.  Maddie (the awesome babysitter) took the kids to dinner and then to the Jump Zone.  They had a great time.  After the movie, we all came back to the Merrill's to visit.

On Saturday morning, I was able to go watch Jaden play in one of his basketball games over at Sky View.  After that, Steph and I did some shopping and then headed up to Frederico's to have a small baby shower for me.  We ate lunch, opened gifts, and enjoyed talking and laughing.

On Saturday evening, we had Jake and Shana over to eat Chinese food and hang out. Originally it was just going to be our two families there, but Jaden and Addey stayed to play with our boys, Jocelynn brought Ty up to play with the kids, Kylee and Matt came over to watch a movie and Scott and Chelsey showed up to get in the hot tub and watch a movie.  Never a dull moment at the Merrill home. It was fun to have everyone there.

We had a really enjoyable weekend.  Bryce got ot go four wheeling with his dad and Bruce on Saturday.  They went up to Treasureton and spent most  of the day breaking through snow having a blast.  It was nice to just get away from home for a few days and have a little vacation.