Thanksgiving 2012

I feel like it's been so long since we've been out to Salt Lake. Me and Ti were planning on spending Thanksgiving here in Vegas, but got to talking about how much we missed our family back home. After only a couple minutes we changed our plans and decided that we would be driving out to Utah to spend the holiday with our families. We got a hotel room this time because Ti thought it would be fun to be downtown near the lights.
Wednesday night the boys wanted to spend the night at Grandma's house with all the cousins (of course).

Look who we saw as soon as we got there!! Little Miss Ella

When me and Ti were back at the hotel we were notified that Ti's grandma had a stroke and was in the emergency room :( So Thursday morning was spent at the hospital with Ma. I am so grateful that Ti was able to be by her side holding her hand.
Afterwards we went over to my moms house and I cannot even begin to explain how delicious the food was. If you have been lucky enough to taste my moms cooking, then you know I am not exaggerating when I say this lady is the best cook!!!! We've come up with a weekend strategy when it comes to the holidays. Often times we have so much food leftover it's ridiculous... so she cooks traditional Tongan food on Thursday, Friday we eat those leftovers, Saturday we cook our traditional American food (turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, etc.) then Sunday we eat those leftovers... Voila - a weekend of amazing food to celebrate our culture and livelihood here in the U. S. of A. :)

Mafileo & Ruby Mei

Diaper pals: Lucky & Ella

Later that night we went to Ova & Monica's and me and Monica attempted to do some "Black Friday" shopping at Walmart... and we came out of the store traumatized lol.

Friday after breakfast we went to Gateway and watched Life of Pi in 3D.

Salt Lake does it fancy with their 3D glasses

When we walked out of the theater we were greeted by Sau & Suliana. We had lunch with them at Tucano's ... yummmmm!!

Friday night we planned on going to Temple Square with my family so each of my siblings got hotel rooms as well so we could spend the entire day downtown. As soon as we got back to the hotel the kids invaded the pool. They swam til the sun went down.

After getting dressed and filling up with cocoa in the lounge we headed to Temple Square where we walked the grounds admiring the beautiful Christmas lights.

Saturday we took family pictures which is always a struggle when you have 3 rambunctious boys. We had dinner that night at my Moms and Sunday we checked out and headed back to Vegas. It seriously was such a great trip, that as it came to a close, we decided that we would head back for Christmas :)