Thanksgiving

We still had a good (long) half day of driving ahead of us, at the very least, to get to Mesquite, NV for dinner. We got there just as they were finished preparing all the food. Dinner was great as, except for the burritos on her first night, we had been living on simple and easy camping foods all week. We got to catch up with Christian's sister, Aron and her husband plus her two oldest sons and their wives. We had not yet met Mason's wife, Kendall before. They've been married a year now. Austin's little girl, Georgia, is running around and talking now. She's so adorable. She's going to be a big sister in February as Natalie is expecting a little boy by then. 

After dinner, we went out shooting. The boys brought some of their guns for us to use. We haven't gone shooting for a long time, so that was pretty fun.

We all got to try out all the different options. They were pretty fancy. Afterwards, we got to see some of Aron's horses. She showed us last time when she gave us a tour of the ranch, but I did not bring my camera.

Then we returned to the house for dessert and chat some more.

We had considered spending the night and leaving in the morning, but Kraig's autistic son doesn't like any changes in his schedule and having strangers staying at the house upsets him. We would have to sneak downstairs so that he wouldn't know we were there. It seemed like a lot of trouble and we had not been sleeping well anyway for the last couple of nights and wanted our own beds. Plus, we'd been gone a while and were getting anxious to check on our house. We drove through the night and got home around 1:30 in the morning. It is kind of good that we did as I had put an order in that wasn't supposed to arrive until the next week but was on our doorstep before Thanksgiving. Luckily it was still there when we got back!

The girls had a their own Thanksgiving feast with their friend (Emily's old roommate, Amber). It sounded really good and it seemed each of them made enough food for a meal each so they have food for the week taken care of, I think!

Aron sent us back with food as well, so we didn't have to cook all the next day and was able to relax and work on our pictures and videos!