Thanksgiving 2010

Since I graduated from high school, I haven't spent very many Thanksgiving's at home! It's been fun to venture to other family's house's and be a part of their traditions! But there's nothing like being at home for the holiday's! I was grateful I was able to spend some time at home! I took Monday and Tuesday off from school and drove home with Mitchell and Tracy the weekend before!

It was great to spend time with these fun people! :) The older I get, the more I like to hang out with them! It didn't use to be that way!

Lots of Thanksgiving preparations! The name tags are a tradition! Hello! Everyone needs to know where to sit! Mitchell has a "smoking" fetish and has to "smoke" everything and anything that can be cooked that way! So naturally we had to have "smoked" turkey! There were quite a few of us (not our biggest, but definitely not the smallest). We had two tables full of people!

Dinner was delicious! We had quite the variety of food!

So delicious, we of course had to take a quick nap! Troy didn't approve of my napping.

A Thackeray family get together/holiday would not be complete without some game playing! We had intense games of Five Crowns and Apples to Apples! Good times!

It was great to be able to spend Thanksgiving in Etna! It was fun to see family and friends I hadn't seen in awhile!

Volleyball Banquet 2010

Volleyball season came to an end and we had a very nice end of the year banquet. The girls were very sweet and had this awesome blanket made for me! It has all 3 of the sports that I coach on it, and it was very nice of them to get it for me! It was somewhat sad to see volleyball end, I will miss those seniors that graduate. They were freshmen when I first started coaching! Time sure flies!!!

Grandpa's Visit

Grandpa and Barbara came to Utah to visit at the beginning of December! They took us out to eat at Texas Roadhouse. It was DELICIOUS!

Then I went down and spent the rest of the weekend in Nephi hanging out with them, Aunt Patty, Uncle Steve, and Greg! It was a fantastic and much needed break!

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Where did the month of November go? All of a sudden it's December 6th! AH! Hopefully I will have a little time in the next week to catch up! Things are going great! Just super busy, as made apparent my incredible lack of posts! The blog was a good idea when all I had to do was sub and coach! I realize now that I was living the life! :) If only I would have realized it then! Haha! Don't get me wrong... LOVE LOVE LOVE the new job... just uh... wish I had a little bit more time to do other things as well!

Team Night

The end of the season is nearing... not quite sure where the past three months went? I won't talk about anything specifically, because well... I'm freaking superstitious! And in the words of Van (from Reba, the TV show), "You can't mess with the mojo." But we had a fun little team night last night! We sent the girls on a scavenger hunt with clues around the school! We also made them take pictures along the way! We concluded with our Athletic Director giving the girls a little inspirational speech, and then we ate dinner! I think everyone had a good time! Love team activities! Here are some of my favorite pictures from the night!





"GO TEAM!" :) ("Go team... how original...")

Halloween

Even though I despise the holiday of Halloween (I know, I know, I've heard it from everyone... sure it's cool when you're a kid, but for me, right now, uh... not so enjoyable), we had an AWESOME little family get together at Rosemary's. She just had her house remodeled and it looks fabulous! We enjoyed delicious food, fun games, and the best company (you're all jealous you weren't there and able to hang out with us all)! :) Here are the "unofficial" three pictures:

The "Three Finger Smile" has officially been retired. It had a good run with some great memories.

Our attempt at being scared.

One little happy family of cousins! Love you all!

Fall Visitors :)

I came home from practice yesterday to some visitors! Sooo glad they stopped by on their trek across the country!

They even brought me a delivery from my cool mom! :) Every bad thing I've ever said about you never sending a care package I take back! :)

We had a lovely little dinner and were able to watch the Giants win game one!!! It was too short of a visit but we had a great time!

Here is the pumpkin in all of it's glory! Thanks Mom!!! And thank you Harris' for hand-delivering the thoughtful present! :)

It was my facebook status this week, and I'll transfer it over here: I have some of the best friends and family in the whole world! :) No... but really I do! Love them!