Thanksgiving '09

This year we actually celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving in Canada. I love Canadian Thanksgiving!! Most of my siblings got together and decided to we would still have all the trimmings without my parents around. Since they were down in Arizona and decided to spend it down there with Renee and her family, we did the entire dinner all by ourselves. It was really fun!! We started the afternoon with yummy little appetizers and treats just to hold us all over until the BIG dinner occurred. We spent all afternoon hanging out together- cooking, watching movies, playing, and napping. The whole dinner which included: turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, traditional Grandma Taylor salad, homemade rolls, stuffing, sides of pickles/pickled carrots/olives, rhubarb slushy pop, festive water, apple crisp, and pumpkin pie. There was so much food and everything was delicious. We had the dinner at Jared and Elaine's house and I nervously took on the task of turkey, stuffing, gravy and rolls. The turkey turned out so good. I have never had such moist yummy turkey before.


I'm so grateful for the country I live in and the freedom that I have. I'm so grateful and blessed to have wonderful family and especially to live close to some of them now.