Turkey Weekend!

We went to Phoenix for Thanksgiving to spend some time with my (Shannon's) side of the family. We ate at my Uncle John's house and then the day after we spent the rest of the time in Sierra Vista where my Grandpa (My dad's dad) lives. It was good to see a lot of extended family that I havn't seen in awhile and a few relatives Jerry and Cohen havn't EVER seen, so it was nice.

This is Skinner Family Fun Day :) The picture was taken at an outdoor mall where we saw Side Line. We started the day out with breakfast at IHOP and then went bowling and then to a movie and then dinner at California Pizza Kitchen. Cohen was descent during MOST of the movie but got a little antsy towards the end. His bowling skills are superior, he was so thorough that he chased the ball down the lane with his crazy mom chasin and slippin behind him! Coming out of dinner was interesting, the mall was hosting a rock concert right outside our restaurant...and trying to get Cohen out of there with a stroller was an experience.....I got all these dirty looks like "Who would bring a toddler to a rock concert!!!" And I looked back at them thinking (it's not like the concert was going on when i went IN to the restaurant!!! :) It was classic. It was fun to spend time with the whole fam-dam-ily :)

We then had good ol' Turkey Dinner with Uncle John and Aunt Barb and my cute cousins Kimmy, Katie and Scott!. As well as my Grandpa Skinner. It was delicious. Cohen however fed most of his to their dog.

After all the Turkey Goodness we were off to Sierra Vista, while staying with Gramps out there we went to Tombstone which Jerry had never been so it was kind of a fun thing to do.

We then went to Bisbee which is a town close to the border of Mexico, my grandmother was raised there and my dad spent a lot of his childhood there. It's a sweet hippy town.

A lot of people back in the day were employed in the mines.

This is the house that my Grandma along with the 13 OTHER kids in her family were raised. Can you even believe they fit all those people in there?
Standing on her porch

This is what most of the streets look like there....small, narrow and on wrong move, your off the mountain!

And the rest of our trip was catching up with family. Below are a few of my Grandma's sisters.
My Dad's cousins, aunt and uncle!

We were invited for Menudo....I ate Chili :) I don't eat menudo :).

At Grandpa's house, Beaux's (his dog) bed seemed to be Cohen's favorite place to be!

Gramps!

And finally, we went to my Grandma Skinner's grave. It was weird to be at her house with her not there. I miss her like crazy.

All in all it was a really good 5 days. I love my family.