We spent Thanksgiving at the Crooked H (the ranch owned by the Finch family.) We stayed in the big beautiful lodge in the mountains. The ranch is by Clint's Wells. Blake's parents and all of his brothers and sisters and their families were there. It was the first time we have all been together at the same time since our wedding!!! That was three years ago!!! And boy have we added to our numbers since then!!!
Wednesday night we all arrived at various times. Blake and I and our crew arrived last and had the priviledge of closing the gate :) We got there pretty late so I went straight to bed...Not sure what everyone else did because Tess and I slept like rocks...I heard from everyone else that Riley and Blake stayed up the latest...Hahaha...
Thursday morning we got up and got to work cooking the much-anticipated Thanksgiving Dinner!!! We had some serious fun cooking everything and all the work payed off...Everything tasted great!!! After we ate, we rested for a while and then got ready to take family pictures... Taking pictures was a zoo, to say the least!!! Just imagine two silly girls with cameras on tripods, and everyone else, who was just as silly...There was much running back and forth setting timers and trying to get into place before they went off...Let's just say that all the smiles in the pictures are genuine because everyone was well entertained ;)
Thursday night was filled with movies for the kids and games for the adults...Again, much silliness and laughing!!!
Friday, I broke my tradition of getting up and getting to the stores as they open, no matter how early...That's right people...I LOVE Black Friday!!! But we all slept in a little and packed lunches for a day on the road...We started off up the mountain to see the view from the Mogollon Rim... On the way we stopped a few times to take in the beautiful scenery and see where a tornado hit a few weeks ago...We arrived at the Rim and took more family pictures and ate lunch...The view from the Rim was GORGEOUS!!! We even got a re-enactment of when Denver proposed to Megan...
We then set off for Camp Verde to see Clifford and Tami's house. After the house we did some shopping in Cottonwood and had dinner at Panda Express...Then we headed over to Sedona to see the Christmas lights at Tlaquepaque...It was pretty cold, but still fun!!! Then we headed home...Again, I went straight to bed because Blake and I and our crew had to get up early and go to Snowflake to my cousin Ray's wedding...
The wedding was great and the reception that night was beautiful...A great ending to a great weekend!!! Enjoy the pictures...We took a ton!!! Here are a few!!!
Riley made sure Spongebob got in on all the action
This picture is dark but it is the best one Blake and I got of all the grandkids...All the kids did good for like two pictures and then chaos ensued...
The Blake Finch family
Nana and Papa and all the grandkids
Tess and me practicing our smiles
The caravan on our Friday drive
This is where the tornado hit...It snapped trees like toothpicks and some were even completely uprooted
The view from the Rim
Glad to be back home after a weekend of partying!!!
