Thanksgiving in Oklahoma!

This year was our year to go to Oklahoma for Thanksgiving! We have SO much fun when we visit our family down there and the boys just LOVE their Oklahoma cousins! We left Tuesday after the boys school and drove as far as we could which was right outside of Joplin, MO. Mike could have driven the whole way but Nicholas was waking up and he was having a minor fit. Surprisingly Marisa did really well on the way down! So when we got our Motel room it was about midnight and we all went to sleep. Our alarm clock woke us up at 6:30 by yelling out, "Mommy! Da Da!" There was no sleeping in on Wednesday morning! So we all got up and got ready to get back on the road! We arrived at the Evan's residence around 10am. We hung out for awhile and than had lunch. For dinner we went to the McBride's house and had dinner. The Koch's had driven through the night so they were already there and we were just waiting for the Dehne family to arrive. Unfortunately they ran into traffic in Iowa and Kansas City so they didn't arrive until 11pm that night.

We celebrated Thanksgiving at the McBride' house and it was great food as always! The Dehne's brought their Wiffle Ball set so after awhile we all walked out to an open field to play. Once again just like in MN it was adults vs. the kids. Anyone that was still in High School was considered a kid so Kayla and Colton got to play with the adults! It was a great game!

The next morning we all just kind of hung out. We didn't really need anything during Black Friday so none of us got up early to shop. We did go shopping later on but not on Friday. Any way, Friday night Brennen and Jordan had a football game that was 3 hours away. Mike, myself and Jon drove out with Mena, Maita, Rianne, Ashlyn and a friend of Rianne's. Marisa and Nicholas stayed with their Tita Missy (we are going to start saying Tita and Tito now since it is really what the kids should be calling their Aunties and Uncles!) On the way we stopped at a place called Pops on Hwy 66. It was really good food but not that great of service! We were a party of 8 and when they brought us to our table, there were 3 chairs missing and no one brought us chairs for like 10 minutes! We had to ask someone to bring us chairs! After dinner we headed out and made it there at around 6:30pm. The game didn't start until 7:30 and the stands were already packed! We were lucky enough to find seats by the 50 yard line in the front. I hadn't been to a HS football game in SO long! It was SO much fun especially since they won! It was a close one. We won with a Field Goal with the final score being 21 to 24. Lincoln has their Semi-final game this Friday against a team that they already beat in during the season so we wish them luck!

Saturday was another day of relaxing and getting some last minute shopping done and watching the OU vs. OSU football game. Our cousins are HUGE fans of OU so every time we go down there we buy OU apparel. So that is what we bought and I actually bought Marisa's X-mas dress. Lola Auring took us out to dinner that night and after that we went back to finish up packing and said our goodbyes!

I didn't take as many pictures as I would have liked but I did manage to take a few.


All the Oklahoma cousins with Marisa and Mena. Haylee is missing in the picture.


A better shot. For some reason my flash didn't go off on the first one!


Tita Ta Ta has a trampoline in their back yard and the boys loved jumping on it!


My two handsome boys!


Group pic of the kids! The temp in Oklahoma was awesome! It was like 75 degrees on Saturday! Us MN folk didn'tneed jackets!


On our way to the field for Wiffle ball.


Picture of the Oklahoma cousins behind!


Waiting their turn to hit.


Colton and Kayla are on the Adult team!


The little ones joined us after awhile!


Kids on the field!


Nicholas being a ham!


Jon looks like he is modeling or something!


Tita Ta Ta and Gen Gen.


Marisa hitting Daddy with a Wiffle Ball.


Jon was pitcher one inning.


Group phot of the ladies!

Thanks again to all of you in OKLAHOMA! Hope to see you guys this summer!

OH! I just looked at the pictures that I received from Ramil (Thanks Ramil for the copies!) I will have to post ome of those pics too! Much better than mine!