Friday, November 23, 2012

Giving Thanks


The day before Thanksgiving was busy with preparations.
 
Lia made mini-calzones.

Val and Meg worked on the name tags for the place settings.
 

A banana cream pie is in the works.

 Here, Lori is preparing our family’s incredibly delectable mashed potatoes.  (They’ve got cream cheese in them – a lot of cream cheese – which makes everything better.)
 

I helped too by moving furniture and supervising ... and taking pictures.

On Thanksgiving, we had a couple 13 pound turkeys for the 12 adults, 5 kids, and 2 babies that filled our place.  Here’s one of them ready for carving.

And the table is set.

These flowers look pretty good in their peanut butter jar turned vase.
 

Everyone contributed to the "Thankful Chain."  Lots to be thankful for!