Friendly Thanksgiving

This year for Thanksgiving, we decided since we see our families more often and we really missed our friends, that we wanted to go back to Salt Lake to visit our friends! We were able to go from Wednesday to Sunday.

Tarina picked us up from the airport and we hit up the grocery store to get the goods for the weekend and most importantly for our Thanksgiving feast! We visited a few friends as well as Jarad's grandparents before we settled in for the night. Chris & Tarina recently bought a house and have been doing some DIY renovations.

The kitchen cabinet doors and drawers weren't quite finished but we all chipped in and got most of them done that night.


Chris in the basement- renovation station!


Jarad is putting on the hardware.


Kate just slept right through all the house work! Such a sleeping beauty!

After getting some ZZZ's, Thanksgiving morning we went over to Jason & Amy's new place to visit and meet their new pup.


Little Emi isn't so little anymore! She has grown so much!!


Thank goodness she still loved me though! (Probably helped that I had a present!)

While we were over there, they were prepping their turkey. Jarad volunteered to pull out the neck but didn't realize till later that he forgot the gizzards inside! YUCK!


Something is just wrong about this!

After visiting, we headed back and started in on helping cook the Thanksgiving feast!


HAPPY THANKSGIVING BABE!


This was Tarina & Chris' inaugural Thanksgiving dinner in their new house. It was great to have lots of help in the kitchen!


Here is the beautiful turkey just before carving.


They ordered a fresh turkey and made a fabulous turkey for us all to eat! Chris is ready to carve!


The table was set for the occasion!


Best friends! Thanks for a great Thanksgiving Wein!


The turkey is ready to go...


Just before we sat down to eat there was a little gravy incident (yes, that is what is flowing all over the table). Don't worry though...I saved the rolls!


Everyone is ready to feast! And feast we did! Everything was wonderful and we thoroughly enjoyed our Thanksgiving with friends!


Happy Thanksgiving Kate!!!

Although we were full of turkey, we, of course, still had to do a little Black Friday shopping and so a few of us went up to Park City to the Outlet Mall's big midnight madness sales. Little did we know that everyone else in Salt Lake was too! It was a little crazy but we found some good stuff and got some good deals.


The Crew- Amelia, Amy, Scott, Tarina & Jarad


T & I- I am glad we convinced you to come Wein! So fun! But my body is not used to staying up till 4 am!

We spent lots of time loving and playing with this sweet little girl during our stay! Love her so much!


She has the sweetest smile!

One evening, we went to see some more friends, Brian, Michelle & Fiona. We didn't get to stay long, but we loved seeing you guys and catching up!


Miss Fiona is getting so big and loved playing with my phone.


Jar, Fiona & I

Since we moved away, a few In & Out Burgers have opened in Utah. So we had to go and get some tastiness!


Tarina, Chris & Kate...Kate tried to chow Chris's double-double and got lucky enough to gnaw on the tomato.


Love us some In & Out!

While in SLC, we had to go to one of our old traditional breakfast spots, the Jade. If you ever go, only order the pancakes, it is the only thing we can vouch for!

Kate really liked the pancakes too!


We also have an after breakfast tradition...the Quarter Game! Pick a line on the sidewalk and everyone tosses a quarter, trying to get as close as they can without going over. The closest quarter wins them all! Tarina always wins...and did again today! (We couldn't be breaking tradition! :))


Kate thought she was so big eating pancakes that she even thought she could drive! HA!

The battle of all football games- Utah Utes vs. BYU- also happened to occur while we were there. Some of our friends came over to join us at Tarina & Chris' house.

Even though they cheer for the "other" team, we were so glad that Jason, Amy & their little one, Emi, came to hang out with us. We are so glad we got to hang out with you guys this weekend and can't wait to see you again soon!


They were happy with the outcome of the game. Well maybe Emi wasn't...she placed an emergency call towards the end of the game to report her sadness for the U's soon to be loss. HA! It was pretty funny.

Wearing the correct colors are Cole & Maura!

We loved seeing you guys, seeing all your home-improvements in your new place and are so excited to meet your little one in just a few months!

We also saw our friends Jenn & Ben. And to our very delighted surprise (and lots of others too)...they got hitched that weekend. They eloped to the temple and we couldn't be happier for them!

The Newlyweds!


Me & Jenn

I was also fortunate enough to get to see alot of my girlfriends from my old ward while we were there because they had the traditional monthly GNO (Girls Night Out) while I was there! It was so great to see all of you and to catch up!

Unfortunetly we had to come back to Colorado and say see ya later to Miss Kate and all our dear friends!!


Me & Kate


Jarad & Kate


Love ya Wein!

Thank you for hosting us Tarina & Chris! And thanks to everyone for making time to let us come see you! We had a great weekend and are very lucky to have such amazing friends!! We can't wait to see you all again soon we hope!!