Four days without any stress.  Hallelujah.


Thursday:
  Grandma and Grandpa Lundgreen have been staying with us.  So on Thursday we spend most of the time in the kitchen preparing for the Thanksgiving feast.  At two we went to our cousins' house.  There were twenty-two people in all- my family, my grandparents, my cousins, and my cousins' cousins from their mom's side of the family.
  Turkey, potatoes, yams, rolls, cranberries, green beans, reunion salad, pies...
   It was so fun to meet up with everybody and just chat.  Fortunately the adults decided the six oldest girls {it's funny because all three families have girls as the two oldest, one fifteen and one thirteen}- Kendall, me, Jamie, Rachel, Paige, and Corrie- were old enough to sit with them; their conversations are much more intellectual than the little kids' shouting about bacon.  Afterwards, us girls, feeling slightly guilty about the amount of food we ate, decided to take a walk on the green belt behind their neighborhood.  It was absolutely gorgeous, with a cool atmosphere, glowing greenery, and even a few droplets of rain.
  When we got back from the walk, we decided to watch a movie.  It was called Sarah's Key, and I don't know whether to say it was a good movie or a bad movie.  I do know that it was without a doubt the saddest movie I've ever seen {and I've seen a lot of sad movies}.  Let's just say that I am very thankful that I don't live under any of the circumstances any the characters were living under.
  To feel happier we watched some funny videos {including BYU Divine Comedy, Kid History, the aftermath of wisdom teeth removal, and parents telling their kids they took their Halloween candy} and then started playing Scum.  I didn't remember at all how to play it, but somehow I managed to win all four rounds.
  After being together for almost eight hours, we were still sad to leave.  So the kids somehow managed to convince the parents to let us have a sleepover, with the six older girls staying and the eight little kids going over to my house.    Though Kendall and the parents went up earlier, the rest of us girls stayed up till 3:30 AM {and could've stayed up for hours more} watching a chick flick, playing White Lies and BS {Baloney Sandwich}, and listening to each others' true laughs.  Man, I forgot how fun being a stupid teenager is!


Friday
  Friday was Black Friday and Jamie's 15th birthday.  The three younger girls took forever to get up and then get ready, but we went to Dana Park to eat lunch and shop.  After going to Costa Vida, we spent most of our time in the bookstore and then flipping through some vintage calendars at Anthropology.  The calendars included all this info about the Zodiac signs, which were so insanely accurate that none of us could put them down, even though we didn't plan on buying them.
  Friday night my parents went out to celebrate a friend's birthday, so Grandma, Rachel, and I played Scategories and Monopoly.    Definitely a way to make you smarter!

Today {Saturday}
  Today has been dedicated to Christmas.  The radio blasting songs like The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, we've put up lots of decorations just as I've been waiting for for the past like ten months and twenty-five days, to be exact.

  Oh, the wonders of relaxation!