Thanksgiving

Every year our awesome neighbors, The Whitmores host a Thanksgiving breakfast. There were pancakes, bacon, eggs, donuts, hot chocolate and orange juice.  I later found out that Kaden had four cups of hot chocolate.  I will have to watch him closer next year.  :)

Here we are enjoying our yummy breakfast.  Don't you love the looks on Tom and Darin's faces? :)

Our other awesome neighbors, the Cranes have a deep fire pit that they cook turkeys in every year.  This year they cooked 27 turkeys.  They season the turkeys, put them in oven bags, then wrap them in tin foil and then burlap.  The results are amazing.  The meat fell right off of the bones.  This was by far the best turkey any of us had ever had. 

I loved having my sister-in-law, Haylee in the kitchen with me.  She is the best cook.  Thanks to her we had a delicious Thanksgiving dinner.

We had turkey, ham, rolls, apricot carrots, squash....

Mashed potatoes, stuffing, sweet potato casserole, gravy....

chocolate cream pie, apple pie, pumpkin pie and banana cream pie. 

The kids made a turkey craft and wrote down what they were thankful for.  Kaden was thankful for his family and food.  Kaylee was thankful for her cousins, Matthew and Lindsay.  Matthew was thankful for his family.

After dinner we drove to a nearby Water Ranch and walked around some lakes.  It was a beautiful day and we loved having family here to enjoy it with.