Fun Filled Thanksgiving Weekend!

This year for Thanksgiving we stayed in Boston and even hosted the big event at our home. Yes, we made our very first turkey without any help (besides over the phone help from Wonder Chef Maren) from anyone. We invited a couple from our ward over and a couple that lives down the street. Everyone contributed to the meal so we didn't have to make everything so that was great. Oh yeah, listen to this, our neighbors upstairs left for the holiday but before they left they brought us a pumpkin cheesecake from Rosie's Bakery that was soooo delicious! I am so thankful for them!!! Isn't that so nice? I thought it was. The meal turned out very well and we all left the table filling more than satisfied. All in all we had a really fun time. It was fun to cook with Christian and share the holiday with friends. After we stuffed our faces we looked at all the adds for Black Friday and loathed over the toys we would like but are too poor to buy, it is a fun tradition we have each year. I have yet to find a deal to get me to Kohls or Target at 4:00 a.m. however!

On Friday I had to work which was no fun, but I did it so I could take Monday off cause my dad and his girlfriend, Lori came to town to visit us!!! They arrived in Boston Friday night and we ate yummy food at Red Bones and then went Candle Pin Bowling. For those of you Non New Englanders that is a game similar to bowling except the pins are really thin and you use really small balls to try to knock down the pins. You get three turns and only two times in two games was I able to get all the pins down. It is so much harder than it looks. We all had a great time laughing at ourselves and how ridiculous we looked trying to master the game.
Saturday it was FREEZING!!!! We all bundled up really warm and took a Duck Boat Tour of Boston,if you don't know what a duck boat is please see picture below. They go on land and on sea and it was really fun to see Boston that way and a lot warmer than walking around!


After the Duck Boat tour we drove to Charlestown to see Bunker Hill.


This is the Bunker Hill monument and it has 294 stairs that spiral all the way to the top and yes, we climbed to the top, because that "is why we came here." That climb wasn't the easiest thing and my legs were shaking like crazy when we got to the bottom. However, going up 294 stairs on a freezing day is a great way to get really hot, so I guess that worked out in our favor! After that we saw the USS Constitution which was neat as well.

Yeah WE made it!!!

Another fun thing we did while Christian went to school was go to Fenway Park, home to the Boston,Red Sox! Go Sox!


It was really fun to see Fenway and be a part of this historical piece of baseball. We learned a lot about the stadium and the Red Sox. Good times!

Other highlights this weekend:
We put up our first "life sized" Christmas tree. We decided we were grown up enough now to get a big kid tree instead of our 3 foot fiber optic tree. I think it looks great but it is kinda hard to get a good picture.


The best part of my week was getting my very own GPS from my dad for my birthday! The worst part of living in this city for me is trying to find my way around without getting lost witch is really not possible to do! I DO NOT enjoy being lost at all and at times driving has caused major anxiety attacks for me. I am overjoyed with my new toy and I believe I might actually survive in this city now!!! Thanks Dad!

Thanks to my dad and Lori for letting us drag them all over Boston and for all the great food we ate and fun we had. Love you guys!