Thursday, November 24, 2011

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!

We started off the day with a Family Turkey Trot.  We skipped the chaos of 25k people downtown and took a 3 mile walk through our neighborhood.   Walking with a 5 (almost 6) year old and an 8 (almost 9) year old, made it slow.  B's foot hurt and J's legs were itchy.  A was fine and said we should  do family walks more often.  Frankie loved it except halfway through he refused to go any further until I held the leash.  Darn, I was enjoying a leash holding free walk.


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After our 3 mile, 1+ hour walk, we came home to finish up the bit of cleaning and start prepping the food.   We ordered a smoked turkey and Chris fried a turkey.  The rest of the dishes were split up among the family.  I was in charge of mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie.

The pie tasted good but had a crack the size of the Grand Canyon in it.


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I'll remember next time to not cook all 10lbs of potatoes, even if it doesn't look like that much more. It is that much more. I need to google leftover mashed potatoes to figure out what to do the rest of them.

Everyone came over.  Everyone helped with last minute preparations. 


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Kids helped with decorations.


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Food was ready right on time.  Everyone ate. Cowboys played. Desserts served at halftime.


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Cowboys won. The kitchen was cleaned.


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Now we're settling in to watch the very last A&M/Texas game with Black Fridays ads wondering if there is anything worth losing sleep.

I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving too.

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