Andy says his visit with Emma went really well. She loves going to the Children's Museum and is getting smarter every day. She also sang in the children's choir and Andy said he could hear Emma's voice rather clearly. While he was there, I talked to her on the phone for a little while. She told me a joke that went something like..."Knock knock. Who's there? Emma. Emma who? (long pause) Emma Moyer."
Thanksgiving was a lot of fun. We both went to Utah to spend a few days with my parents, Stephen and Crystal, and David and Logan. It was a lot of fun, but Utah is certainly colder than California. I am officially a wimp when it comes to cold weather. Honestly, I don't mind my wimpy status--yay warm climates!!
For Thanksgiving, Stephen deep fried the turkey in peanut oil. I tried to pretend that this was a healthy way to eat turkey and went along with the idea. Besides, it was fun to watch the process no matter what. After we named the turkey, we lovingly dipped it in a vat of boiling oil. 
The turkey came out golden brown and it didn't take very long at all to cook! We had more than enough to eat--including cranberry salad, seasoned sweet potato french fries (when life gives you boiling oil...), pumpkin sweet potatoes, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, 4 kinds of pies (for a total of 8 people--whoot whoot!), carrots and a apple-cranberry stuffed pork loin. Mmmmm.
Readers of my blog know that I really enjoy playing Family Feud. I don't know why, but I just do. For work, we used a computer program to plug in some questions and answers for a presentation we did a while back. I used the same program to generate some actual Family Feud questions and answers and the family indulged me as we played...the feud. I thought it was a lot of fun and it was good practice for when I use the game for a YM/YW combined activity in January. Heh heh heh...I'm a Family Feud machine!! 
We had much to be thankful for on Saturday because Stephen and David let Andy and I use Dad's BYU Football tickets to go see the BYU vs. Utah game!!! It was sooo much fun to be in the BYU stadium again and to be surrounded by so many BYU fans. Of course we were concerned that we would freeze to death, so we came a little too prepared and about sweat to death during the game. The sun came out and there were no clouds at all, but we had sweaters and ski coats nonetheless.
My cousin Dave and his son, Alex, came down for the game too and it was fun to catch up with them. Alex just got back from his mission and is playing Rugby and going to school.
I must admit that the game didn't really get good until the last five minutes or so of the 4th quarter. Up until then, BYU and Utah just kept going back and forth with field goals (which, as Dave says, is a lot like kissing your sister--it just doesn't cut it). Needless to say, we were thrilled with BYU's win. The fans rushed the field at the end of the game and a good time was had by all.
