Happy Thanksgiving!

we started off with two little ladies in our bed with us, bright and early thanksgiving morning. we got up and ate breakfast and got ready to watch the parade. we watched, and cooked, and ate m&m's, just like we did in days of thanksgiving gone by. at 12, we loaded up a million dishes and a million people, and headed to mccombs. but first, this stylish gal showing off her canadian tuxedo. that's some super cool jean on jean action right thar! she was thrilled to get addie's hand-me-down jean jacket this week cause addie got a new one.

we got to mc's early so we  matt could heat up the turkey fryer. and kids are soooo helpful!

the rest of the crew was a-workin'!

we bought a new turkey fryer this year. i am a dyed in the wool turkey fryer believer. turkey is so dry that i've never been a big fan, but i love when we inject our to-be-fried-turkey with cajun seasoning and fry it, it makes it so moist and adds a nice flavor. look at that deliciousness! and the turkey looks good too. ;))))

i had talked to darlaina about thanksgiving traditions last week and she said her family always did a relish tray. i had never heard of such a thing, and even though i'm not the biggest pickle fan, (they're okay every now and then) i was super intrigued. then when lisa came over, she brought the fixin's for a mini-relish platter. lucky me! but then, unlucky me, i forgot to try anything from the mini-relish tray. oopsie.

the troops were famished, what with all of the laying around, and everyone was ready to eat, and pretty close to our 2 o'clock goal too.

everything was delicious! we made mashed potatoes, creamed corn, green bean casserole, winter salad, pink fluff, and the turkey. laura made frog eye salad, sweet potatoes, rolls, carrots, and cranberry sauce. then lisa brought ham, homemade chicken noodles, pineapple casserole, broccoli cheese casserole, more sweet potatoes, and the relish platter. there was so much food and it was so yummy!

oh sweet daniel...

we ate and visitied and cleaned. we had brought games over, and joseph really wanted to play scene-it, so i cut papers out so we could choose teams. it was laura, lisa, and i, then matt, david, and richard, and then all the teens on their own team. isn't that weird the way it worked out?! we played for awhile, but our scene-it is old, so we switched to our disney scene-it and decided to answer only the video questions, then it was more fun and a little faster. we finished that game and headed on to the pies! lisa brought french silk, laura made pumpkin, lemon meringue, chocolate pudding, and vanilla pudding pie, and i brought chocolate chip pie and cheese cake. only my cheesecake met an untimely fate after i asked aloseph to take some things out to the garage fridge and joseph dropped it. :/ heavens knows i don't need it, but i think i will be making another one this weekend. it's just part of thanksgiving!

the girls started to melt down and it was time to go. i realized i hadn't gotten a good picture of the girls in their thanksgiving shirts - so here goes! super thanksgiving girl.

then i went up to snap lanes before bed, but she was super silly.

she had no diaper (mid-change) and was dancing all around.

"no, just hold still and look at me...just let me see your shirt..."

oh, picture taking of a goofy 2-year-old.

 

chris is pet sitting for 2 families in our neighborhood, so he had to come home to let out dogs and then he and i headed back over to watch mom's night out, which lexi had rented on tuesday, and we'd never gotten around to watching. it was cute and had a lot of really relatable parts, but was super blown out of proportion and over done.

ma big kids! we got home way too late, but we had a really great day and a happy thanksgiving!