Happy Turkey Day

My parents are here this week and they helped put on a wonderful dinner today! We actually ordered a turkey from New Seasons - it was fabulous! We made all the sides - oh, well actually - we also ordered corn bread stuffing (AWESOME) and turkey gravy. We had a very local Thanksgiving - turkey is from a local farm, we got the potatoes and cranberries from the farmers market, and the pie was made at New Seasons also - whipped cream made by ME! The green bean casserole was our only - not local or organic thing we ate - but it was worth it! I tried a new sweet potato recipe in the crock pot - Apple Buttered Sweet Potatoes - they were so yummy and so easy - definitely a tradition from now on!

This morning, I reminded Jakob that it was Thanksgiving and he said, "Oh, yeah we have turkey today, when do we get to chase the turkey?"
Me - "What?"
Jakob - "Don't we need to chase a turkey?"
Me - "Oh, No the farmers already did that for us."
Jakob - "Oh, ok but did it die already?"
Me - "Yes, it's sad, but we are thankful for the turkey."
Jakob - "Yeah, I thank you for the turkey."

Nana, mashing up the potatoes

Papa Don, carving the turkey

Nana and her Grand babies
Jakob escorting Sarah to dinner - really he discovered that he likes "walking her", as if she is dog or pet?
Our cozy little Thanksgiving! This is before Sarah started to throw food - yes it was on the wall behind her and all over the floor - she ate everything but was done sooner than we all were!


P.S. I am thankful for my family being here with us, our health, our kids, our jobs, our roof over our heads and all our far away family and friends that we miss so much!! (Some of these friends are drive able - you know who you are - we hope we can see you sometime soon!!)

Jakob has said a couple times this week that he is "Thankful for the worker guys who work hard to make our streets and build buildings for us...I'm also thankful for the garbage man and our garbage can." I have to second those thoughts!