Thanksgiving with the Curzons

Adam and I spent Thanksgiving with my family this year. A large part of my family, including us, gathered at my Aunt's house in Clear Lake, California. It is about 2 hours away from Sacramento to the Northwest. We drove to L.A. and then took the 5 north. We left Wednesday evening because Adam ended up getting stuck at work. We figured we would just pitch a tent somewhere if we needed to sleep. It got to be about 1:30am and we decided to sleep. At that time we were driving on a little highway towards the 5 a little ways south of Fresno through a po-dunk town called Wasco. We found an Olive orchard off the highway with a clearing just off a little road. We pitched our tent there and slept until about 6am and then continued driving. When we started driving again we noticed a state prison just down the street from where we camped. :) We b0th determined that it was better we knew about it in the morning then the night before.

On our way back we stayed with my cousin's husband Peter at their apartment in L.A. Boy, that was a lot nicer then sleeping in a tent near a prison.

These pictures are of my niece Addy at Thanksgiving. She is 10 months and one of the happiest chilins' in the world. The only time she cried was when she got a glimpse of mom or dad and realized they were around, but not holding her. She loved playing with my cousin's son Logan.

Adam and I had a great time. The food my uncle Gary made was absolutely spectacular! It was so wonderful to be with my family especially since we aren't sure what opportunities we will have to come visit once we move for medical school. We had more family together during Thanksgiving then we have had in a very long time. It was great to see so many and catch up with them.

When we drove back to Arizona we took a scenic route. We drove down through Napa Valley. Napa Valley is absolutely gorgeous. It is the vineyard capital of the U.S. (at least to me). Here are a few pictures I was able to capture from the car as we were driving. It is winter so the vineyards aren't as pretty as they are in the spring or summer, but the fall colors were very pretty.
After driving through Napa Valley Adam thought it would be fun to go to Livermore where his brother Morgan is serving a mission. We weren't able to get his address to give him a gift, but we did take some fun pictures to email to him.

I couldn't figure out how to get this photo to rotate. No matter what I did to it, it would always upload the same way. But I couldn't leave it out. For those of you who are in my family: Adam and Morgan have this thing where everywhere they go they click their heals together and take a picture. So Adam wanted to click his heals and send the picture to Morgan.

Recent News: Adam got a interview invite to Ohio State. So that is three schools now that he has or is going to interview at: Ohio, UofA Phoenix and UofA Tuscan. Adam has also finished his Biochemistry class at ASU with an A, which makes him very happy. I finished up my semester at MCC with straight As, not like that was difficult. :) Anyway, Adam and I will be spending Christmas in Colorado with his family. We are very excited!