We started off with crab dip in a bread bowl, meat, cheeses, crackers and nuts for appetizers while we watched the worst Thanksgiving Day football games every! Eventually Ella and I went outside to play football...she likes to throw and tackle. When you throw it to her, the ball often bounces off her head.
Ella started to direct where we were going to sit and what to put out. She set out a pack of "chewies" for each person too. Soon she'll be able to run the whole thing and Mommy will get to sleep all day...like she wants to do.
Natalie's turkey came out awesome! How could you not love the useless parsley to decorate it. I did a turkey on the grill too, but it wasn't done in time. Arg!!! At least we were able to send plenty of left overs home with everyone.
Natalie insists that for the amount of time that goes into planning the meal, eating just flies by. Ella said Grace and we enjoyed what Papa said was one of the best Thanksgiving meals he has had. With a sick as Natalie has been the past few days, she was very grateful that the baby gave her a break today. Speaking of which, can you believe how much there is to be thankful for this year! We truly feel God is taking care of us day after day!
Afterwards we cut into the Thanksgiving Princess cake, it is one of the most treasured traditions that every family looks forward to.
Check out the rest of the pictures at our Mobile Me account.
3 comments:
We miss you all so very much!
Thanks guys the day was great!
Thomas and Natalie,
Your blog is excellent and the words you use are well thought and funny (ha-ha)! It certainly looks like your house is the place to be on Thanksgiving. The Thanksgiving Princess cake is the way to go! Perhaps next year I will get some.
My claim to fame this year is I cleaned the kitchen after dinner. It takes hours to make the fine meal (BTW-Nat, your turkey looked really good-great photo), and only a few minutes to eat it all and destroy the table, etc. Anyway, I figured cleaning up after all mom’s work was the least I could do.
Little news from here-Alex may come out to California for college (slight chance). Donnie may live in Oceanside or Kentucky for a while when he gets out of the Army (even less chance). I am definitely headed west by the end of next summer.
Anyway, keep up the blog-it is truly priceless!
Love to all,
Dad
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