Update Part 1: Thanksgiving

I know that I've been a major blog slacker lately (and a few of you have even let me hear about it). So, now it's time to do some catch-up posts...that sounds like a familiar refrain, doesn't it? Most of this is just for my journaling purposes, don't feel compelled to read all this old news.

For Thanksgiving we went up to Snowflake. The funny thing, though, is that we had Thanksgiving with the Orrs/Wiltbanks up there, not the Flakes. For the past several "On Years" for my family (meaning it's my siblings' year to celebrate with the Flakes and not their in-laws), we've had dinner down here in Mesa, so I hadn't been to Snowflake for Thanksgiving in 4 or 5 years. I thought it was kind of funny that to get back up to Snowflake to celebrate it was with David's side of the family, not mine (David's mom grew up in Snowflake and her mom and a couple of her siblings live there).

David's brother Joseph had been wanting to see and ride a horse, so while we were up there I took him over to my mom's house so he could ride Chester, my dad's old horse (and the favorite of all my nieces and nephews). Since I couldn't ride with him, my niece Leah was kind enough to give him a ride:

Here are Joseph and Josh riding together:

Josh didn't sleep the greatest while we were up there, but luckily my in-laws are wonderful and Ralph spoiled me by watching Josh for us when he would wake up at about 5:00 am. Between that and eating tons of good food, we had a great trip!