Holiday Highlights Part l

Thanksgiving:

•   Bennions fly from Pasco to SLC. Mom is glad that Dad is joining this time for Olives 2nd flying experience. Olive is exhausted on the plane. Cries and becomes delusional but also very snuggly. 

• Land in SLC. Grandparents hug and love Olive, they forget about their child who yielded Olive. We eat at an amazing restaurant Cous Cous or something like that. 
• Pie Night at the Harlan's Wednesday night. Olive attacks other small children, continues to be a show off but we take pictures about it so it's ok.

Glen & Douger

Grandpa Neal and Olive

Aunt Barb & Olive

 Doesn't Olive look like she just got done beating someone up?

• Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thursday is a gathering at a church in Lehi for a large Thanksgiving dinner with the Allen's for the first day of a reunion. 100 lbs of sweet potatoes are ingested...practically by one person who shall not be named (shifty eyes). Olive plays with cousins and meets her Great Grandma and Grandpa Allen for the first time. Olives Grandma Nae makes psychotic faces at the camera. :)

  

• 2nd day of the Allen Reunion. Gather for a large family picture. The chaos is absolutely beautiful! Trying to get 1 child to smile nicely is hard let alone 30+! We enjoyed a day full of dancing, eating, watching family videos and catching up with cousins which has been long overdue. Grateful for a beautiful reunion!
• Olive wears cute boots and a fur vest. She's a true diva.

• Fly back to Pasco from SLC. Hailey heads back to Kennewick to babysit cousins for 4 days! Olive parties daily with her new friends! Glen joined us and brought the real party!
• Watch Christmas movies and watch the Light Boat Parade in weather no one should endure. 
• Rode the Carousel of Dreams or something or other... I remember it was an inspirational name. It was really truly inspirational and a blast! It even had the tokens you could try and grab while going around.
• WE LOVE THE GOURLEYS!

 Watching Home Alone in the car!

 It was CHILLY!

Totally worth it!