Thanksgiving

We decided to stay here for Thanksgiving this year. We invited a few friends over and had quite the feast and a fabulous time. It was my first time hosting a Thanksgiving dinner and my first time making a turkey, gravy and pumpkin pie, but all in all I think things worked out okay. I was very grateful that my mom was just a phone call away, as I had to call her several times throughout the day to ask her questions, mostly about the turkey and gravy. I think both the turkey and gravy turned out pretty good. The pumpkin pie on the other hand was not the best. We actually cooked and mashed up a pumpkin and made the pie totally from scratch. On Thanksgiving, I was surprised that on Thanksgiving Sophie was downing the pumpkin pie that my friend had bought(I am pretty sure I did not even try pumpkin pie at that age), but on friday morning when we gave her the pumpkin pie that we had made(yes, pie for breakfast), she declared. " I only like pumpkin pie at the party." I think that next year we will buy our pumkin pie. Our apple pie however, turned out delicious. After we stuffed ourselves, we played a little bit of ping pong and then a game of Settler's while the kids watched movies and played with every single toy that we had in the house. It was a good time with great company and a whole feast of delicious food.

Sophie helping out in the kitchen. The only part she didn't want to help out with was the turkey. She told me " Mom that looks like a real turkey." Well Soph, I hate to tell you, but...

Pat and Scott playing ping pong against Laura and Steve.

The kids.
Sophie and two of her friends watching movies.

Oh, and Sophie dancing to the music on the Thanksgiving day parade coverage. Isn't she fabulous.


We also had a lot of fun spending the rest of the weekend together as a family. It was so nice to have Pat home for 4 1/2 days. We got to play lots of games, start cleaning out what will be the baby's room, take long afternoon naps(or at least I did) and get out all of our Christmas decorations. Christmas is already so fun this year. Sophie has her favorite Christmas songs and as I type this, she is looking through the ornaments that we will put on our advent calendar starting tomorrow. She can hardly wait to choose one.