Thanksgiving 2008

Make a Smilebox slideshow

So for our Thanksgiving, we traveled to Florida to be with my grandparents. And by "we," I mean our ENTIRE family traveled and all arrived at different times throughout Tuesday and Wednesday. I had a wonderful time seeing everyone and introducing them to Blake. It was the first time that many of them had gotten to meet him. As well as cooking and planning for Thanksgiving, we had to plan and decorate for a 50th anniversary party for my grandparents that was on Friday night. So we were kept pretty busy.



We had Thanksgiving at the church since it was big enough to house our entire family and so we could begin decorating right afterwards. Ashley, Amber, and I decided that we enjoyed the HUGE kitchen (since it was a school kitchen) and should have one of those every year. We cooked with the largest pots that we've ever cooked with on Thanksgiving. And I can't even begin to describe how big the potato masher was! It was HUGE! Ashley and I were in charge of cooking desserts. I made an apple pie and a timarsu bowl and Ashley made pumpkin pie with homemade whip cream. It was incredible. While we were all cooking, the guys were entertaining themselves with the Wii. And I'll just say that the kids had a blast because they got to play with it showing on the projector...every kid's dream!



The party was great on Friday night and the decorations were beautiful, thanks largely to Aunt Janet and her decorating skills. I made a slide show that followed along the same lines as the scrapbook I had made documenting the growing family from their marriage to Ashley's baby. It was pretty neat to see how it all progressed through the years. Two sad parts...Shannon wasn't here and I know it seemed like yesterday when they were first married. Time goes by too fast.



We all left to head home on Saturday, knowing that we'll be seeing each other again in March for my brother's wedding. And there will be another little one for us to meet!