Happy Thanksgiving!

We had a really great Thanksgiving. It was the first time since we've been married that we had it only with our family. We weren't intending on that but everything just ended up that way & it was really quite nice. Our day started out quite early with our early birds asking for 10 pieces of construction paper. A bit later (around 5:30am) we heard, "Gobble! Gobble! Happy Thanksgiving!" Lexie & Joseph made themselves into cute turkeys.

They're lucky Rick's not a hunter. But they quickly convinced Rick that he needed to make them pancakes for breakfast. After breakfast the boys headed off for the Turkey Bowl & we girls started cooking. Poor Alexis cut her hand with the knife so no more cutting for her.  But I had lots of help holding my little monkeys and then lots of help picnicing in the mashed potatoes. They were so good & I seriously could not keep Eliza out of them.

I'm just glad she found some more foods that she really loves.Once the major dishes were cooking & the turkey was ready to go in, the children made some appetizers.

 

And soon we were ready for our big meal. We had enough food to feed an army.

And eat we did. And also gave great thanks for all that we have.

And quickly everyone (except for Joseph) became quite full. We literally did not want any pie 5 hours later (but we all had just a small sliver because what is Thanksgiving without eating a little bit of pie?). We also taught Joseph how to play Settlers of Catan and we just had a wonderful day enjoying our family & thinking of all of our many blessings.