Thanksgiving in Montana 2008

We were blessed enough to be able to go to Montana and spend the Thanksgiving Holiday weekend with Amie and Matt's family this year. Crazy maybe. We took three teenagers and a big dog. We traveled mostly at night. Bad for us, we were tired and arrived around 2:00am but great for the dog and kids who slept most of the way. I mean good for us!!! :0) Peaceful most of the way. They all did pretty well traveling. We had great weather all the way. After entering into Montana in the middle of the night, while Barney was driving, a deer ran out in front of us and we hit it. It took us totally by surprize and it took us about three miles before we could stop. the deer hit the center of the grill and didn't do much damage to anything other than the grill. It could have been so much worse. Our prayers were definitely answered. We were all OK and so was the car. there is still alittle fur on the grill. We arrived on Thanksgiving Day. We slept in alittle and then the boys played football while we got food ready. We all went to the Church that evening so we could eat with about 20 other friends of Matt and Amie's, where we would have more room. It was so fun. Nice friends. The guys played basketball and the kids played in the nursery and the mom's cleaned up and everyone was full and happy. Here are a few of our favorite moments while at Matt and Amie's.