Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We enjoyed our first Thanksgiving with just our family this year. Mia is so young we didn't want to travel with her and expose her to any potential sicknesses (which we seem to have plenty of in our own home as it is), so we decided to stay home this year. The kids were kind of sad that we weren't going to be spending time with our other family members, but they had a memorable day with all of us together.

Ron, Elizabella and McKay helped prepare the turkey. Elizabella was so proud of herself that she touched the turkey and it didn't do anything to her. The kids all helped out and decorated our table so nicely. We even had name cards to show us where to sit so we wouldn't be confussed.



Here is the delicious food that we all helped to prepare. All of the kids enjoyed helping mom make the traditional rainbow jello. Ours was orange and red though, as those were the colors of jello that mom had, so they went along with the autumn theme.

William insisted that we have ham to go with our feast, so we cooked some, just for him, although the rest of us enjoyed it as well.


Siena's favorite part were the rolls. She enjoyed eating much better when she pulled up a chair and joined us all at the table.

We didn't have pie for Thanksgiving, but we did enjoy a delicious birthday cake. The day before was William's eighth birthday. He was so full from dinner, and hadn't been feeling the best on his birthday so he wanted to save his cake for the next day. We didn't mind.