Thanksgiving '08

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!! We were thinking we would have everyone over to our house this year for Thanksgiving, but it turns out all of our family is out of town!! :) So, it was just the four of us. It was nice to be home and be able to have a day to do nothing (or 5 loads of laundry and chores around the house because they never seem to get done any other time!!). The kids and I planned out our menu, went shopping, and then set up a schedule for today so we could be eating around 3:00. Here are Brie and I getting the pumpkin pie into the oven this morning. I'm not sure why we made one - tradition I guess. I'm the only one who eats it (although Bret did polish off his piece, Adam ate only the whip cream off the top, and Brie gagged her tiny bite down that I made her try!!).

While we were waiting for the pie to bake, Bret and the kids went down to the tree where they are planning to put a tree fort. They have half of the tower up, which is giving me nightmares because it's already really high. And they haven't even started on the zip line they are planning - aye yie yie!!!Here is the tree and the tower. Brie is at the top, which you can't really see.
So I zoomed in....there she is!!
They decided to start clearing a path that they could hike around. Here are the trail blazers!!


Finally, dinner was done and we sat down to eat. There was plenty of food -- in fact we could have fed another couple of families! : ) It was sure good though!!!
We let our stomachs settle for a bit with a game of Sorry Sliders. Briana cried her eyes out when Adam won, and Adam thought he'd quit when she knocked one of his pieces out of the game -- good times!!!

We have lots to be thankful for this year. When you start thinking things are tough and aren't going the way you want them to, you realize there are so many people who are in much worse situations. We are all healthy and have more than we would ever need -- who could ask for more?

Posted in: on Thursday, November 27, 2008 at at 5:22 PM  

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous On 12/3/08, 6:41 PM Wrote

    Thank you Amy! The thanksgiving dinner was sooooooo good. I love you.

     
  2. Anonymous On 12/3/08, 6:44 PM Wrote

    Dad found out how to do it. You should tell him sorry. I love you sooooooo much!

     

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