Thanksgiving 2013

For the first time in all of our family years, we celebrated Thanksgiving in our own home with just our immediate family members.

I cooked our first Thanksgiving turkey plus a handful of side dishes requested by those who know what's going on. Oliver requested rolls, & sweet potatoes. I wanted 7 layer salad & fudge. Ryan wanted turkey & rolls. I also made some stuffing from a box and some gravy from a package.

Ollie likes to take pictures of food.

It was good food, but it was also a good day. We just relaxed in our home with each other. I got in a game of bingo with Ryan-a throw back to my family's Thanksgivings. During our meal, Oliver suggested we play the alphabet thankful game which is much like any other alphabet game, where we take turns sharing what we are thankful for in alphabetical order. So we shared important things like our family members & our home. We also were thankful for snakes & zippers among other things.

Ryan immediately requested that we put Christmas up in the house which ended up taking the whole weekend. On Friday, we figured out that we wanted to put the tree up in our guest room, but Oliver wanted to make some shelves in the closet to put the "stuff" that had been strewn across the room. The shelves were finally made on Saturday and the tree was put up. After church on Sunday, we put the ornaments on it.

I am so blessed. We are all so blessed.