Thanksgiving with the Thorley's

I'm first of all going to tell everyone .... WE HAVE A 7 MONTH OLD!

 And I am obsessed.

She has become so much fun and I have no idea what I ever did without her. Seriously! This is true love people.

Anyway, onto the festivities ...

We had a non-Thanksgiving with the Spjute's in Midway at Greg's sister's awesome new house. Such a pretty little valley! It was fun and I got new running shoes on the way. Oh how I love the Park City outlets.

Sofia with Owen and crazy uncle Dan

Thanksgiving was spent with the Thorley's this year, and we have officially outgrown the Murray home, so my aunt reserved the nearby church. Being known for "Thorley time," I didn't anticipate Thanksgiving starting on time (1:00 pm), and having a baby, I put her down for a nap (which she desperately needed if she was going to survive the day). I put the trusted husband in charge of taking the pies out of the oven ... and 20 minutes later, after putting the Sofi loaf down for a nap, I came downstairs and yes, the pies were still in the oven.

Greg was fired! And I was beside myself. Life goes on....

Despite being overbaked, my pies were a hit and Greg has been forgiven (1 week later).

My parent's and sisters were all camped down in Saratoga Springs, so we had to travel a bit to see everyone. Black Friday was spent doing some short-lived shopping, then traveling frantically down to Saratoga Springs to meet up with the family.

Sofi had a bit of a blow-out on her way to Saratoga Springs in her Christmas Jammies, and I won "Mother of the Year award" by not having any extra wipes in the diaper bag, so Greg got to traipse around Walmart in his elf jammies. He said he got a lot of "Merry Christmas'" and was successful at making my mom snort when she saw him.

My parent's reserved us tickets to ride the Polar Express in Heber. So everyone put on their pajama's and away we went. Greg and I were dressed up for the occasion, as was baby Sofia Lu. I was Santa, Greg was my elf, and Sofi was our reindeer. Due to the freezing cold temperatures, we sadly didn't get many pictures showing off the outfits. But I got a few of Greg that were awesome ...

Imagine seeing this walking around Walmart ... then laugh really hard

The full effect

The Polar Express was so much fun! We sat in super old train cars, drank hot cocoa, ate chocolate chip cookies, and rocked out to the Frozen "Let it Go" song. SO. MUCH. FUN! We even had a dance party in the aisle Thorley style. Sofi got to dance with cousin Dayton and met Santa Claus who gave her a bell to jingle.

The whole Thorley Fam

Oh the things Greg can do with a straight face

Grandma stole Sofi

Dancing with cousin Dayton

Jingle bells! She's gotten good at jinglin'

This was such a fun thing for us to do and I am so glad we did it with my family. We don't get to see each other as often as we would like, so when we do I'm glad it is usually doing something memorable.

Greg was all about putting up the Christmas tree on Saturday, so that's how we ended our Thanksgiving holiday. 

We are in full Christmas-mode around here! Strangely, I find myself only shopping for Sofi ... If only the girl knew how spoiled she is. 22 days until Christmas, but who's counting?