Thanksgiving

We had a fun Thanksgiving this year. In the morning, Brian went to the Turkey Bowl, but only like two people showed up, so he came home. Our ward sure is different than it was last year! Not as many younger folk! When he got home, I went walking/running. It's been too long! Then we got things together for lunch. We had lunch at my parent's house this year. Dan and Chris were just at their house and Brian and Kamille were at her brother's house. We had a delicious lunch! We had smoked turkey. Every year they take it to a long-time friend's house who has a pit in his yard and each year he smokes several turkeys. It tastes so yum! My mom made her yummy stuffing along with squash and those scrumptious rolls we tried last week. I brought mashed potatoes (a good recipe from The Pioneer Woman), vegetables and a butternut squash puree. It all tasted so good and it was all over too soon! After lunch we played Scrabble Slam--which is a really fun card game. While I fed Ruby and my dad cleaned up lunch, everyone one else played the Pictureka card game.

Doing the wishbone

After a bit we loaded up and headed to Ahwatukee. We met up with my brother and his family at a park. The kids played and the rest of us visited. We also had our dessert there--yummy pies! It was a lot of fun!









From there we went to Scrapbooks Etc. They were having a special sale and cookies and Santa. We actually got a picture of all our girls with Santa. Libby didn't want to then we told her she got a sucker after, then she zoomed up to stand by him. Ellie and Hattie were a bit hesitant, but they did it! I can't wait to see how it turned out. They gave out the yummy big suckers that they sell there, so they were loving that. They also had sugar cookies, which they liked, too.

We got home way too late but it was a wonderful day.