Thankful for Airplanes

My family finally agreed to come visit us after a year of harassing them! And of course once my Uncle Whitney found out my Dad was coming, he had to come too! My parents and sisters flew in from PA and SLC and my Uncle and family drove up from San Diego and my Grandma and Grandpa drove down from SLC! We had a full house.

As soon as they got here we BBQ'd ribs and went out for Thrifty's ice cream. They left us for two days to go to the Grand Canyon which was 9 degrees! They weren't expecting that and only brought sweatshirts. On Wednesday they went to the Temple to do baptisms and afterwards we all met up for Cafe Rio! Then we went to Goldfield, which is a Ghost town in Apache Junction. The gun fighters were there doing shows every hour. We spent time panning for gold, eating food, and spending too much money at the gift shop. Thursday we had Thanksgiving Dinner and Matt's brother Kevin and family drove up for the day. After dinner we went and saw Harry Potter which I thoroughly enjoyed. Thursday night Matt lit the tree at the Hyatt and some of us went to watch him. It looks really good this year because they changed the colors of the bulbs and made them brighter. Friday morning we headed out for black Friday shopping while the men went golfing. Friday afternoon we went and got pedicures and manicures and my sisters couldn't believe that we could get them done in November since it's so cold back home! Saturday they helped clean the house and then flew home. We had such a great time with them and can't wait for them to come back!

Yay for sandals in November :)

My sisters decided that they HAD to go swimming. They swam for about 10 seconds and said it was so cold that they couldn't breathe. I warned them!

Getting ready for Thanksgiving Dinner. We had 20 people over.

Me and Gma

Gun fights at Goldfield

Family Picture minus Lauren

Teenager sleeping area, except for Crystal who is 24 :) Who can tell though? haha

Playing X-box. Uncle Whit brought Matt a new controller and Call of Duty: Black Ops so this picture is basically what I see everyday.

Panning for gold

Uncle Whit brought his cat, Tiger. We believe that Tiger and Gussie had a crush on each other!

The cats were definitely the main attraction. You will never meet a Peterson who is not obsessed with cats.

Took some of the girls to Bass Pro and they loved it!