Gillette Family Christmas

The weekend before Christmas we drove to Island Park to celebrate Christmas with my side of the family. Up until then, we had only gotten rain in Twin Falls for the month of December. Once we hit Rexburg it was finally SNOW! The cabin that we had for the weekend was awesome. Kiley and I would LOVE to have a home like this one one day. The kids had a blast and we even got another foot of snow overnight one day as well.

A bunch of us took the sleds to Mesa Falls and it was BEAUTIFUL! Just being in nature and appreciating everything that God has created is so good for the soul. It was so peaceful to be with loved ones in a literal Winter Wonderland. While we were at the Falls, Laura and I watched the guys have a snowball fight and on our way back to the sleds, Dad opened the door to an outhouse and just stood there screaming over and over. Laura, Jason, and I just stood there thinking, "what is he doing? There is no way that he is really screaming like that. Kiley and Nick must be in there scaring him." Pretty soon a squirrel came running out and we all just died laughing. Dad said that it was trying to scale the door to get around him.

About a month ago, Laura was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. It was kind of even against the odds that they even caught it. To treat her, the surgery will require a full thyroid ectomy but her outlook is great. She will need to be on thyroid medicine for the rest of her life, and to get her levels just right will take time, but we are so blessed that she will be able to live a long healthy life.

 I am so blessed to have this family of mine. We were missing Monica and Adam, but are so fortunate to have each other. We had such a wonderful Christmas.

Lights Parade

Last Friday we were in the Festival of Lights Parade. We also had Lexi staying the weekend with us so it made it even more fun. Kais and Lexi rode on the trailer and their job was to fill our bags with candy and we would go hand them out to the crowd. Kaisley soon figured out that she could eat the candy and no one would mind. It was pretty funny how ravenous she was with it. I am not sure she has ever had that much candy in her whole life. Needless to say, she thought it was the best day ever!

Thanksgiving Day

Kiley decided that this year he would like to cook Thanksgiving dinner for my family. He did an amazing job! The only thing that Kaisley, Kashton, and I did was make a jello salad. :)
My parents, Monica, Adam, and Jason came over. After dinner Kiley, Jason, my Dad, and I went to Walmart to get a couple of TVs. Kiley and I got the TVs pretty quickly and ended up waiting in the parking lot for Jason and Dad. While we were waiting, we witnessed a beat up car (worth maybe $2,000,) leaving with two of the $700 TVs stacked on top of the car without anything strapping them down! The driver and the passenger just had their arms out of the windows trying to keep them from falling off! I wish we could've gotten a picture.
It was a good day though. As always, I wish I had gotten more pictures of family.