Thanksgiving

It has been about 10 years since I last spend Thanksgiving with my family, so this year was really special to be back home.  Tyler, Neal and I all got to stay in Seattle after Anna's wedding and had a wonderful time relaxing and celebrating Thanksgiving together.

The festivities began early on Thursday with the making of gingerbread houses (or in this case Graham Cracker houses).  The kids loved decorating them, Neal like eating the candy mostly.  Thankfully Grandma was right at the table with everyone otherwise I'm not sure any candy would have made it on the houses.

For every piece of candy that actually made it onto Neal's house there were at least 3 that made it into his mouth.  This resulted in a busy/hyper rest of the morning, but what would gingerbread house making be without a little candy tasting.

I didn't get any pictures of the amazing meal we had, but as you can guess it had all the wonderful traditional foods like: turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, and pie...lots of pie.  We tried a new pumpkin pie recipe this year and it is a keeper (it makes a creamy pumpkin pie, almost cheesecake like).

We felt so fortunate to be able to spend the week with family.  It is always nice to go back home.