Thanksgiving and such...

Thanksgiving was fabulous for our family this year! But before we discuss those details there are a few things that happened before. First of all, my Sadie Hawkins (Girl's choice) dance was the weekend right before Thanksgiving and it was so much fun! It was definitely in my top 2 favorite dances I've ever been to. The cheerleaders were in charge of planning the whole dance...that means decorations, DJ, royalty..the whole enchilada! We all went as a big group of 16 girls plus our dates and boy was it crazy! Here are just a few pictures of the eventful day.

My date Zach and me waiting to get pictures at the school

A few of the couples at dinner at my friend's beautiful home

Zach and me at dinner

Most of the girls in the group

The next thing we want to talk about is our missionary! Matt has been doing wonderful and is still located in El Paso. We look forward to his letters and experience the same emotions of happiness, disappointment and excitement that he does. A few days after Jared's birthday, he sent some pictures with his email! So here they are...we love sharing these!

Matt sportin' a sick old suit that he and Elder Camp discovered in their closet. He claimed that he could barely squeeze into it!

Elder Bagley, Destiny, Elder Camp, and Ray at the kid's baptism. This was Matt's first baptism :)

Matt's birthday greeting for Jared (he always used to call Jared "Cadillac" because of Jared's obsession of cars when he was about 2. Jared was very passionate about cars and Cadillacs specifically. He would pronounce the car brand like "Ca-lack-a-lack" and ever since then, the name has stuck with him!)

Finally, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year! We unfortunately couldn't go down to St. George with my dad's side of the family, so we stayed here in the valley and spent the day with the Mecham side. It was great though! We went out to Michelle and Chris Daines's house and stuffed ourselves full of the tastiest food :) It was delicious! The spirit of the season was definitely packed into their home that day. Also, Aaron and Jared got quite the holiday surprise! Dave Chambers arranged for the boys to meet Diondre Borel and Robert Turbin (quarterback and running back for the USU football team). Now, we understand that Utah State may not have the best football team but it was still so fun for the little boys to meet them! They got autographs and pictures and had a great time! Thanks again Dave! Thanksgiving is truly a time to realize our blessings. How blessed we are to live where we do and be so close to family. How blessed we are to have the gospel in our lives as well. Anyways, here are a couple pictures from Thanksgiving!

Diondre Borel, Aaron, Jared, and Robert Turbin

Borel (quarterback) passing the ball to Jared

Turbin (running back) hamming it up for the camera with Aaron

All of the girls out at the Daines

Thanksgiving wouldn't be itself without football! My dad, Aaron, Jared and little Braden

Grandma and Grandpa Mecham :)

Sisters--Michelle and Marja

And finally, for a last little side note, I have some exciting news. My high school is doing "Peter Pan" for our winter musical. Auditions were the 11th of November and I gave them a shot, hoping for the best. Here is a little background of the audition:
Murphey's Law is out to get me because the night before auditions, I started feeling a little sick...the whole sore throat/runny nose/yucky cold kind of sick. So the day of auditions I woke up and funny thing, my voice was gone! I sounded like a raspy teenage boy haha. Anyways, about 10 minutes before they started I called my mom and had decided that it would be ricidulous to audition considering my health and how my voice sounded so I wasn't going to do it! But she gave me confidence and after seriously thinking about how I would feel after not auditioning, I decided to just go for it...voiceless and all! Anyways, to make a long story short, I got called back for some of the lead parts and ended up getting the part of PETER PAN!

Luckily, the directors all knew my voice and capabilities because I have worked with all of them in previous shows. I am so excited to get to play this part. Now, it probably seems a little odd that a girl is playing the part of a young boy. The reason is...because Peter is a young boy, and young boy's voices haven't dropped yet, the songs are all written much higher than a teenage boy could ever sing. So in all of the productions (from Broadway to high school) Peter has been played by a girl. This part will definitely be a stretch for me but I am excited to fly! It will be such a fun experience. It will be showing the second week in February so if anyone will be around to come see it, just let us know and we can get you details! :)