Thanksgiving

Our dinner this year was delicious. I got the 21.07 lb turkey in the oven by 7am. The girls woke to the scents of Thanksgiving dinner cooking. It was a fun morning cooking and cooking and cooking. By 2pm Grandma & Grandpa Carpenter had arrived and we were ready to eat. This year Ron made some great pies and stuffing...drum roll please... There were actually 3 surprise pies this year. The best one of them all was the creamy pumpkin pie. It was fluffy and tasted similar to a whipped cheesecake, all while sitting in a deep graham cracker crust. Need I say more? It was heavenly. The other pie was a pumpkin apple pie and the third was a mixture of the regular pumpkin, creamy pumpkin and apple pumpkin. This one was really good too. As for stuffing, this year's surprise stuffing was a pumpkin mushroom stuffing. It was good also!
Thanks Ron for making the holidays fun! We all enjoyed your hard work this year in making the surprise foods. :O)

After dinner, Ron, Caitlin, Courtney and Victoria had a weekend of playing Ages of the Empire. It turned out to be a very long tournament. They also enjoyed hours of Wii. I spent 4 long days, painting my foyer and staircase walls (This was not an easy task. I will post pics next.) and I spent many hours decorating for Christmas. The two tress are up, banister and mantle are decorated, the village is out and the outside of the house is decked out. (Gary would be proud!) More pics of all of this to come.


Ron's traditional pile (?) of food.

Ron making his stuffing.

My turkey - 21.07 lbs.

Ron making pies.