best. surprise. ever.

 Two days before Thanksgiving, I was standing in my closet with no pants on.

It was laundry day and nearly all my jeans were in the washing machine.

Big knock on the front door... OH GREAT! I pull on some capris and

run to the door, and looking at me through the window are 

THESE ADORABLE FACES!

~ My oldest son Daniel and his partner in crime Alissa ~

They drove all the way from Utah to surprise us - we had no idea.

I screamed my face off and doubled over with emotion

and never wanted to let go of them or stop looking at them!

BEST. SURPRISE. EVER.

Oh Daniel... you're such a lovable DORK.

They got to surprise the Mouse and Davy too -

they jumped in my bug to go pick up the Mouse from school,

then they went to the college to pick up Davy from his classes!

SO. AWESOME.

 So although you may think you had the best Thanksgiving ever,

I'm really sorry to tell you that WE actually had the best Thanksgiving ever.

You all know that my most favorite thing is to have all 3 boys under my roof.

And this time we got the extra bonus of A GIRL TOO! YAY!

~

Well, these kids are no slackers, and they both have a heavy load at school.

And they're both Teacher's Assistants, so they had a LOT of papers to grade.

Like, a LOT of papers... like hundreds of papers. So they did a lot of this.

 And they were tired. Like really tired. So they did a lot of this.

But I didn't even care, because they were HOME :)

 And when they set up camp in the front room, it looked like this.

And Daniel has a way of s-p-r-e-a-d-i-n-g his stuff all over the place...

and they had mounds of laundry to do (which Luna loved laying on)

but I didn't care, because they were HOME :)

 And for the first time EVER, we went out to eat for Thanksgiving!

We went to Claimjumper's and it was AWESOME!

Aw, just look at us all together... it was just the BEST :)

 We were able to fit in a super fun game night too - YAY!

With Davy's best friends whom we ❤ like they were our own.

(except we really, really missed you Liam!)

Apples to Apples with 11 of us... now that was FUN. And LOUD. 

 That's right: Val came home from college as well! Yay!

It was great to see her, and Davy sure was happy too :)

 Ah, the usual shenanigans... I love it :)

*Ski, Darren, Jimmy, John, and the Mouse*

 Yeah, it was just a little bit of fun. And mayhem. And cheating (DAVY)

So that was our Thanksgiving. BEST. TIME. EVER.

Look at these precious faces. No wonder I feel so blessed.

❤