Thanksgiving 2012. Part 1

This Thanksgiving we headed to Oklahoma with the Whitworth clan. We rented two cabins in Beavers Bend National forest. It was fantastic! Especially since there was 18 of us! The place was beautiful and it actually looked like Fall there. The cabins were pretty nice as well. We had loads of fun walking around, eating, playing with cousins, riding trains, watching movies, and spending time together. Here is the first few days in pictures...

Abby and Briggs on the drive up there

Exhausted that night!

So excited to run around. Thats Izzy behind her

Confronting the bear

Running like a mad man

This is the cabin our family stayed in.

Seth and Nems

The uncles paying Dominion, we played a lot of that game :)

Briggs

Abby

Ella

Abby and Briggs sitting on the logs that surrounded the fire pit

The other cabin with Great Grandma Francis

Abby shooting the bow and arrow

Briggs taking a turn

Nems

She thought she was so big sitting like this

Shooting the bow and arrow with uncle luke

Emily and Ella giving hugs

Emily and Great Grandma Francis

Abba

The men cutting wood.

Throwing Leaves

Getting ready to roast some mallows

Chandler, blowing the flames. Briggs is overseeing her.

Getting the mallows

Ella, love that face!

Family Pictures

In late October, the entire Whitworth Clan was in town. So of course a photo shoot was in order. We had one day and it was really cold.... but we made it through. Thanks Reina Legrand for dealing with this lot :)

Of course there were a lot more than what I posted here but I will leave those to the other families to share. I did however save my favorites for our Christmas card so you will have to wait and see...

The Entire Group

The Brothers

Siblings

The brothers with Brother in Law Ger

Abbs

One of my favorites of the whole day. The grandparents and grand kids, notice Briggs is the only boy.

Brigham

Emily 

I think this is my favorite

The Chitlins 

Seth and I

Yep Thats me. Thank you photo shop :)

Color In Motion

Color Me Rad, that's us. Nothing but Rad Awesomeness going on. The weekend before Thanksgiving the girls and I did the Color in Motion 5k in Dallas.  It was SO. MUCH. FUN! I do have to say, the night before one of our crew became sick and couldn't come. We missed you Steph!  We got up early, ate some Chick Fil A and headed to the run. It was cold. I think it was 40 degrees. It eventually warmed up though. But the wait for the start was a little numbing, not to mention the totally cheese ball DJ, who was mind numbing.

We had some good chit chat and laughs, and I learned that one of the songs I like to work out to is actually really dirty. I live in a bubble sometimes. But when I really listened to the words in context, dang its dirty. Thanks for pointing that out Mandy.  Now I am down a work out song. But I digress. We took some pics and got ready to get our color on.

Thug for life...Mandy

Mandy and Marie

Being big goofs.

Then we were off. We weren't sure what to expect exactly, and it was a little different than I thought, but it was still fun. There were over 3000 people  running and some couldn't wait til the race started, they already had color all over them. It was a good time. I love doing things like this. Being active and fun especially with awesome friends is fantastic. Here are some of the post race pics.

 I definitely had color in places I didn't want to have color, but what can you expect... I can tell you this, it doesn't taste nice and I cannot hear as well out of one of my ears.  We topped off the day with some Sonic drinks and we headed home. Cant wait to do something like this again with these gals.

Mandy and I

Our Team Minus one (Marie, Mandy and Myself)

At least our teeth stayed relatively clean.

I did It!