Turkey Day

We had Thanksgiving at Grandma Penny's house again this year.  Cody had come down on Monday November 12 and was able to stay until we all drove up together on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.  He wanted to come home on Saturday, November 10 but the a huge storm blew in and Utah County was almost to a stand still.  We didn't want him driving down and having any problems because of the weather so he waited until Monday.  Grandpa Penny  had neck surgery on Monday November 19, just 3 days before Thanksgiving.  Grandma usually tries to do most of the work for the big meal but she couldn't do too much this year and even if she wanted to we would not have let her.  We made snacks during the day like a cheeseball and dips so we wouldn't starve before the big meal.  Dinner was at 2 like usual.  Don handled the turkey and everyone else pitched in to help with everything else.  After our delicious meal we watched Christmas Vacation.  Since Grandma was out of commission we did alot of the cooking for the family.  For some reason, it must be the high altitude, every time we-Don or I, made something in the oven it would boil over.  One night we made enchiladas I think and they boiled over so bad and the smoke was just filling the house.  Don opened the oven door right as the fan we had put in the kitchen turned my way and blew all the smokey carbon monoxide right at me.  I thought I was going to die!  I coughed and coughed and choked so bad that I had to run outside to breath.  I was feeding Kyle at the time and yankied him out of the high chair and ran him outside with me but his back was to the smoke and so it didn't affect him as badly as it did me.  Connor was pretty freaked out and thought I was going die.  I did have a really hard time for about 10 minutes but finally I was able to breathe normally.  I do not think I want to die in a fire.  That was not fun.  We had a good turkey day and then spent the weekend trying to get Cody all ready for his departure.  We did some shopping, lots of list checking, some eating out and just being together.