Thanksgiving

Hooray for Thanksgiving!





In the spirit of Thanksgiving, I was thankful this year to have not 1, but 2 Thanksgivings. The first was with the Andersens and Newmans, who are family, and have filled in as family for both Mark and me before and after we were married. So we had a great time this year down at Troy & Delsa's newly and beautifully re-done home. Angela and I had a fun day before making pies (6 pumpkin, 2 lemon meringue, 1 apple ... and then she made 2 more chocolate pecan!), Mark made his yummy creamed corn, we pitched in for cost of food and Oila! Easiest Thanksgiving dinner I've ever 'done!'



And while we were there Andrea made a new friend - Daniel - who apparently enjoyed her as much as she enjoyed him! They were so cute!



Poor Lacie had a headache most the night -- because it took us most the night to figure out what was wrong. Poor kid! But after she got some "good stuff" (I am thankful for pain meds) she was back to her fun self. And then made me the proudest mommy in the room when it was time for prayer and she quietly (and un-promtedly) sat down and folded her arms. Aww!


So after a wonderful dinner and a lot of pie, a couple rounds of Bang and Phase 10, we helped break in Troy's new toy, er, Delsa's birthday present - a 58" plasma. Very, very nice. Made Lord of the Rings a lot more fun to watch, that's for sure!