Thanksgiving Day and Grandma Bowen's birthday fell on the same day this year, so we spent Thursday with the Bowen family down in Orem. We sang happy birthday to Grandma and it was great to catch up with family that we only see a couple times every year. I especially loved talking with Melissa Walton about how she's homeschooled her kiddos.
Mom came over Friday morning to help me make her cinnamon knot buns to take to the Simons Thanksgiving later that day. She was such a gem and I love this memory with her.
Friday after naps we met up with the Simons for a yummy dinner. I remember there being so much variety (I need to remember to snap a picture next time!!) and, as my Grandma Bean would say, we were sufficiently suffonsified. We gathered together after dinner and had written down why we were thankful for each member of the family...the kids wrote for the other kids and the adults for the other adults. Then G&G had each child come up while they read what the other kids had said about that child, and the spouses read what others had said about them. It was the cutest thing to watch the child stand on the mantel and just beam while G&G read what others loved about them. And then we clapped and gave a big group hug after each child.
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