I love Family Traditions and Thanksgiving Weekend is my absolute favorite tradition. For over 20 years now we have taken our family and gone to Sherwood Hills....The Coy Family goes with us! It's so much fun. It all started with a huge trial in my life but has ended up being a huge blessing. We use to go up on Thursday after dinner but the last few years we have made some adjustments and now meet on Friday.
This year instead of meeting in Logan to bowl we met in Brigham City since it's on the way to Sherwood Hill and not past it. It ended up being really fun....good idea! The kids that could make it did and we missed the others until they showed up. My whole family was there (except TJ who was golfing) and that was nice. (TJ met up with us later)
I enjoy watching my kids play together and have a great time. I also enjoy watching and visiting with Tonya and her family. The kids seem to really like this tradition too.
We bowl two or three games depending on what everyone wants. My favorite release this year was by Kamryn as she rolled the bowling ball and then gave it a little kick. She did that a few times and even had a table full of men laughing their heads off. It was so funny!
Kimleighel was just mentioning how some Aunts and Uncles acknowledge her and others don't and so I tried to make sure I acknowledged all my little nieces and nephews by name. I want them all to know how much they mean to me and hopefully they will feel special and loved. Kasen never wants his picture taken so I had to sneak to get him which I was successful at a few times. He is a silly kid!
After bowling we headed up to Sherwood Hills and immediately went swimming. The kids love swimming and will stay at the pool as long as we let them. It's a nice pool with a kids pool and a hot tub with a water fall. I have pictures of my big kids in the kids pool when they were little. I love the memories we have made at this fun place.
Usually we have the place pretty much to ourselves but this year another large group was also staying there and so the pool was packed. It was still a lot of fun and I ended up knowing family & friends of the people there. Julie also knew the people. It had been their tradition years ago and they decided to start it again.
Over the years a lot of crafting and projects have been done on our weekend get away. This year Trichelle worked on some curtains for Ivy's room. It's nice that we can visit and accomplish things while we do. This year I didn't bring anything and that was fine too. I enjoyed visiting and watching.
We love and support each other. Tonya had her grands while Kalie & Brad went to Italy and she was a little exhausted. We talked and shared with each other which always seems to lighten the load. I love Tonya...she inspires me and I know I inspire her too which is a nice thing.
We ended swimming so we could go eat. We like to get pizza and this year we decided to go out for the pizza instead of bringing it to the Resort. We went to Fredrico's in Logan and they hid us in a back room with another big party. We waited for quite awhile but it was okay since we don't see each other often enough. It's fun watching everyone interact with each other.
After dinner we went back and played games. Tonya had everyone bring a lunch sack with 3 things in it that described you. Then we all guessed who the sack belonged to. It was fun and even though we know each other really well we still all learned a few things.
We couldn't get the regular game room since others were already in there so we took over the Basketball court. It echoed too much though and so we moved into the exercise room..It was tight and cozy.
Tonya had treats for everyone after their bag was opened. I am glad Tonya took over and did something this year. I didn't even think about doing anything extra this year since the months seem to fly right by. I don't feel like I even have time to think. I am on auto pilot and just do what needs to be done.
I picked up finger lights for everyone (because Tonya asked me to) and the little ones had a great time with them. We had quite the light show. It was really fun. After the light show there was more visiting and then most of the kids went to bed.
Bryce and Tessa usually have fun games that we play together and they did again this year. We played Werewolf....which is a lot like Mafia. And if you don't know what either are it's a game where you sit and are told a story and you have to figure out who the killers are. We each get cards with different people on them and the narrator talks everyone through. I am not even going to try to describe it more. It's fun and we had a great time. I stayed up and played even though I was sleep deprived. It was fun hanging with the adult kids and debating with them. I laughed at all the different scenario's that happened and the people involved. Julie had such a good time that she went and bought the game.
Needless to say I slept well when I finally hit the bed around 1:30 am. In the morning some of the kids got in a little more swimming and we left so Larry, Kimi and Jared could go do Baptisms for the dead in Brigham City with our youth. Later that day we all went to the movie. A movie together on Saturday is usually part of the tradition. Oh......I love Thanksgiving Weekend! I love this time of year and all the thankful awareness that everyone has. It's my favorite!
