先週の木曜日からジョシュの実家のミネソタに行ってきました。（木曜日はアメリカの感謝祭の日）
感謝祭の日、家族全員で過ごすのは１９９８年以来。今回はジョシュのお姉ちゃん家族の家に泊まりました。
さくらにとっては初めての感謝祭、私にとってもジョシュの家族と感謝祭を過ごすのは初めて。
金曜日はお姉ちゃん家族と一緒にクリスマスツリーを狩りに行ってきました（さくらと私は初めての経験でした）
午後は両親の家で弟家族と妹と一緒に夕食を。
土曜日の午前中は「IKEA」で朝食がタダと言う事で、両親と妹夫婦と一緒に、午後はお姉ちゃん家族の家で、全員集まって夕食＆ゲームを（弟さんのお嫁さんは仕事の為これなかったけど）
３泊４日とても楽しい時間を過ごせました。
This past Thursday we headed for Minnesota to celebrate the "giving of thanks" with family. We have not all celebrated together since...1998. That has been over 10 years! And it was before any of the Wes & Vicky kids were married! Imagine that! We stayed with my older sister, Jen & her large family. (Dean, Jen, Elizabeth, Heidi, Soren, Annika & Maggie.) We arrived at their home a couple of hours prior to the Thanksgiving dinner. Total in attendance, 16. Wes, Vicky, Swenson's named above, Jared, Mary Grace, Shepard, Chris, Jill, Takako, Sakura & I. We thoroughly enjoyed eating all of the food and conversation with family. The following day, we headed out with the Swenson's to help document their Christmas tree find/removal/return to the house. The kids even met Santa and rode on a horse-drawn hayride! Later that night we headed over to my Dad & Mom's for Chicken Pesto and some more family time. Then on Saturday, we met some family at Ikea for a free breakfast then returned to the Swenson's to relax with family and get ready for a Papa Murphy's pizza party later that night with the family. It was a wonderful Thanksgiving, on that will always be remembered!
