Las Vegas Thanksgiving 2008

We traveled to Las Vegas over Thanksgiving. Our family stayed with Terri Leitch, her husband Mark, and daughter Sarah. We cooked a delicious Thanksgiving meal. I really enjoyed visiting with my friend. We have been buddies since second grade. She is a surgical nurse for the Air Force. Last Thanksgiving she was on-call and was called in several times. This year she was was not scheduled for work and was able to go to some of the soccer games and activities with us. She was also quite helpful in locating the hidden wine stores. ;-) I am grateful to have such a wonderful life-long friend like Terri. Sarah had not seen the movie Twilight. So even though Mallory and her teammate Breanna had already seen it, they wanted to see it with Sarah. Because, as Mallory says, "It's the best movie I have ever seen in my life!" I was glad to hear that the movie lived up to the book, since she loved that too. Mark was a good sport (or maybe he just really wanted to see the movie himself ;-) ) and took Marcus and Morgan to see Madagascar 2. Everyone seemed to enjoy this one as much as the original. To the right are pics of the girls and me with Terri at our favorite breakfast place in Vegas, Blueberry Hill. Besides visiting our friends, we were in Vegas because Mallory's soccer team was playing in the Las Vegas Turkey Shoot. We had a lot of fun watching some competitive soccer and hanging out with the soccer team families. They are a great bunch and we always have a lot of laughs. Mallory's team, the Utah Soccer Alliance All-Stars, won three of their four games, and just to clarify, they only lost to the NUMBER TWO TEAM IN THE NATION, as did everyone else...those games were just plain ugly. The All-Stars played some of their best games to date. Mallory scored five goals in three games. The last two pics are of Mallory in the game and the team with Coach Karen.