thanksgiving

turkey trot!!! best way to start out thanksgiving morning {unless you’re brigham..then its turkey bowl}. my family has been running this since before i can remember! in fact, a couple years ago…we won a turkey for having the most popular last name at the race. {meaning out of all families at the race, the LeSueur’s had the most runners.} i was extra excited about running this year since ive actually been running lots. it felt like nothing compared to the half. nate {my little bro} & i ran it together. at the last stretch of the race he stopped for a minute because he was feeling sick & i just kept running because i wanted to see how fast i could do it. once he took care of business, he sprinted the last stretch! i’m such a mean sister, i left him in the dust on his 18th birthday! and beat him by one minute :) i did it in 47 minutes which means i beat my personal record..yay!! my father in law and sister in law were so kind to come watch & babysit maddix, olivia, & gracie!
 
after the race, i went home, cleaned up & got cookin’! sweet potato casserole for the weight party & fruit salad for the lesueur party.. i was not a fan by any means of the sweet potato recipe. sad day. my parents had about 120 people at their house for lunch!!! i kinda have a large family. for the weight side we reserved a church building & ate lunch & played games! very busy, but fun day. maddix was so worn out by the time we got home, which meant he went straight to bed. brig & i cleaned up our ridiculously messy kitchen & then he headed off to his brothers for their madden tournament. katie & reagan came over & we had a girls night :)

yesterday morning i went out to target & to the mall with reagan & katie. maddix got a little tired of shopping after a couple hours..but i did get some cute stuff!! when i got home from shopping, brig had put up the tree, hung the stockings, hung the wall hanging from his grandma leavitt & another wall hanging & put up the alaska bear nativity set. too cute. brigham gets so excited about this time of year. i love it to death. we went to costco to walk around. we ate lots of samples & ended up eating dinner there {delicious & cheap…healthy? not so much}. last year we started a tradition the night after thanksgiving. so this year was our second time doing it! we made monkey bread & watched a Christmas movie together! it was delicious & lots of fun.
tonight we went to costa vida for dinner, stopped by qt for some amazing hot chocolate, then walked around & looked at the temple Christmas lights. maddix loved all the beautiful lights! we had an elder take our picture, but it was ridiculously blurry..& then had someone else try to take another one later but battery was dead..oh well. i’m sure we will be back plenty of more times this season :)

{picture found here}

go see them!!! they are wonderful. makes for a great, not to mention cheap, date night :)