Olsen Family: Our Thanksgiving Weekend

the Puppeteers

Every year we have quite the weekend over thanksgiving! I love all the business and crazy schedule with family and loved ones. It all starts out Thursday morning for a breakfast Turkey trot with bagels cream cheese and Grandma Wades famous fruit salad, It's all delicious and then we play some sport with all the cousins, usually ultimate frisbee, and then we get our bikes or rollerblades and ride around the church in a big parade. Mason spent the whold time napping and Porter played with Gideon the whold time, they had so much fun. Next usually comes the Curtis traditional lunch, but since Nana passed away this last year it was canceled. Instead we joined the Wades for a delicious lunch. It was a fun haning out with cousins esp for our boys to hang with their cousins. Brent invited two of his class mates from ASU to join us for their first Thanksgiving dinner ever (they are Chinese). We played some games with them and had a blast. Mason was really cracking us up during lunch. He would hold a fork in each hand and then dive in with his face, it was hilarious. The wades also have a dance that night but we went over to Mom's (Olsen) house, met up with her and Eric, put the boys down to bed and ended the day with hotdogs and some good quality time. That night my sickness had gotten the worst of me and I didn't sleep most of the night with a super sore throat. Therefore decided not to do our normal Black Friday shopping early that morning. I did get out for a couple hours with Camille, but was too sick to do anything else that morning. I had planned on being at our all day puppet show, then hang out with the Flake family, then go see Twilight, but Migraines and sore throats didn't allow it. The next day, however, Porter and I headed over to puppet practice and were joined by Brent and Mason a couple hours before the show. We had a great time doing the 2 shows. One was at 4 and the other at 7. Porter was in quite a few numbers and did a really good job!! He still needed some guidence but was so cute and really stole the show in my eyes! I loved doing the show too, it's such a special tradition. Brent was even a part of the show as one of the quilt quartets and Mason, of course made an appearance. We got home about 10: 30 that night. It was quite a weekend!

Dinner Break in between shows