Thanksgiving and the day after!

Moms beautiful Thanksgiving table, the grand kids always set it for her, it has become a tradition.

Dinner menu was:

Smoked turkey
stuffing, bread stuffing with wild chantrell mushrooms
gravy
candied yams
corn
green bean casserole with wild chantrell mushrooms and bacon
cranberries, cooked from scratch not canned.
mashed potatoes
rolls
Jello w fruit salad that Meg made
Pumpkin, apple and choc fudge pie
cookies
and finger veggies with ranch
dried figs, mom got from a friend that is greek, and made a trip home.
Wine and beer
sparkling cider

we all ate the better part of two 12 lb smoked turkeys!

Meghan and Sara before dinner, Sara just flew in from Mississippi, she flies back out tonight. Its been fun having her home, makes me miss her more, shes my book buddy, we both read a lot.

Grandpa and Rick enjoying dinner, my dad was so funny.

Me and Sara, geez noone usually takes pics but me, it funny to see me in one sometimes.

Sara, Meg, "the boyfriend" David, we really like him, and Davids mom Nancy.
Ok the kids make my husband do this every year at Thanksgiving, he has to make a "chicken" out of a towel, the kids after all these years still just crack up, Rick tries to get out of it every time but they always convince him to do it. Can you see the chicken?

Well that was Thanksgiving, a good time for all, and good food.

.................................................................................................................Sara, Meghan and I went to the Christmas Bazaar on Fri. wasnt too bad, everyone else was hitting all the black Friday sales. We got there at around 11am and left at 5pm. This booth had buttons with funny sayings on them. One was "How do you set a laser printer to stun?" there were some good ones.

Toward the end, Meghan was getting pretty warn out.

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After we got home from walking 6 hrs at the bazaar, my cousins all came out and we had a bon-fire and ate hamburgers, and had a lot of fun. My one cousin lives far enough away now we only see them a couple times a year. All the guys went sturgeon fishing today, Rick, Matt, Steven, Zac, and Luke, the last three are Matts boys, 18, 16, and 9.

The adults sat in the garage most of the night.

The teenagers had a great time out by the fire, it did start to drizzle a little. They had marshmallows and smores, and had a lot of fun telling stories and joking around. Goofballs all of them LOL. I think we were all up untill 11pm or so.

Sara leaves to go back to school in Mississippi tonight I will miss her. She is planning on getting married in January, back in Colorado, where her fiancee is, we are still trying to figure out how to get back there at that time, not a real good time to drive, or fly for that matter, think I would rather drive...... we will see and we well do it somehow!!! Sara is scheduled to go to Iraq in April, thats why they want to do it then. She is stationed in Texas.

For now Sara and Meghan are headed to the mall, to go shopping. Me I get to sit and smell another turkey cooking today, I usually have to cook a bird whether or not we host dinner cuz the husband wants leftovers, lol, it sure smells good, I injected it with butter and garlic. at least turkey is good for you. Have the giblets cooking too.