The Craziest Thanksgiving EVER-- Chapter 1

Seriously, this Thanksgiving was NUTS!!!  My entire family came to visit and we had 12 people living in our house for 3 days. The Porter family is completely incapable of having calm holidays.  I feel like I just lived an entire year's worth of events in less than a week.  It's going to take me quite a while to get everything blogged partly because I want to do each event justice and partly because I'm busy cleaning up from all the fun.

Let's start with Thanksgiving Day....


Of course the "boys" all went to play in the Turkey Bowl Thanksgiving morning.   Chris's brother Steven was visiting from Provo, so we had the 3 oldest Wise boys and my brother-in-law Trevor all participating.

Thanksgiving Eve it was 80 degrees.  Thanksgiving morning: somewhere around 40 degrees.

We took the kids over to watch for a few minutes and the first thing Jax did was run straight onto the field because he wanted to "play football just like my dad".

My goal in life is to never learn how to cook a turkey (I know, I aim high!).  This was our 7th Thanksgiving since we got married and it was my first time hosting.  However, I still escaped doing the turkey.  I assigned the turkey to my husband, who is a much better cook than I am.  My mom helped him out and it turned out great.  Ignorance is bliss :)  

Chris glazing the ham

The table, set and ready to go

My adorable sister and her 16 layer jell-o.

Sometimes Chris and I like to pretend we are new parents with just one kid.  It makes me feel younger.

This is the grandparents and grandkids table.  We were able to have BOTH sets of grandparents for dinner.

"Kids" and Aunt Jill table

Madison's pumpkin pie face

Jaxon's pumpkin pie face

Colton's pumpkin pie face

So that was Thanksgiving Day.  Next up... Thanksgiving Night.