Thanksgiving Day

This years Thanksgiving Day turned out to be a wonderful day. We had 6 friends over from our Sunday night FCA group. They came around 11 am, talked and watched some football in the garage, then we ate at 1pm.
Just like last year, I used a recipe and formula for cooking the turkey in a paper bag. No carving needed!! The meat just falls off the bones. Sam and Kaitlynn spent some time just picking up all the bones in the bag, then Kit Kat decided to be funny!

Right before dinner started I remembered I wanted a shot of all 4 kids before Kaebrie went down for her afternoon nap. I was in a rush, and was only looking at their FACES to see if they were all looking at me, that I DID NOT NOTICE that Christopher was peeing on the tree. !!!!!!

This one is better. :-)
After the blessing, we took a group shot of everyone! In this picture is Ben on the right. Then Katy, (her husband is in Iraq for 5 months). Around next to Collin is Jesse. Then Andrea. Then Tawni on the left. Her husband, Joe, is next to her in the next picture. They are newlyweds! Married only 9 months now, but together for only 3 because she was deployed for 6 months.
From both ends of the extra long table! :-)
After eating, Daddy uncorks the champagne that Joe and Tawny brought. (And yes, everyone was over the age of 21) :-)
The cork landed in the sweet potato casserole.
The toast!
Collin and Kaitlynn joined in with their cans of diet soda.
Then it was time to break the big wish bone~ a 25 pound turkey has a BIG wishbone!

After the massive clean up, it was time for games. One of the games we ended up playing was a trivia game. Sam and I ended up on one of the teams together. The other team had a question about the movie THE BREAKFAST CLUB. That movie was like THE hit movie when I was a teenager. NO ONE on the other team had seen it! We couldn't belive it!!! Sam said, "Come on! You HAVE to know this movie, it came out in 1985 and it was the cult movie!!"
Andrea looked at Sam and said, "I was BORN in 1985." Talk about all of the sudden feeling OLD!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

Mommy got in one of the pictures of the day!

The last guests ended up leaving around 7:00. Then Sam and Jesse and Ben went snow camping in the mountains again, taking turkey sandwiches with them!

We missed our families today, and missed some of the traditions we have always loved, but we had a great day spending it with new friends who were also to far away from their own families.