What a nice time we had at my sister-in-law's house. Ashlie and Clark have enough room in their beautiful home to hold all of us adults and kids quite comfortably. We all slept over, except mom and dad. Poor mom and Clark, they had to get up and go to work this morning--yuck! But what a good time we had and SO MUCH good food! We had TWO turkeys, one smoked and one roasted. We had a ham that mom and dad brought and tons of casseroles. Brian loved that! And desserts...we had chocolate pie that was just sinful it was so good, and a pumpkin roll and red velvet cupcakes. Too much! I felt like I need to try it all, and I did! We had plenty for left-overs too. So Brian and I had thanksgiving dinner again tonight at home, minus the green bean casserole I made b/c I left it at Ashlie's on accident, how sad. More for them I guess. We didn't need it anyway.
But it was just a lovely day all around. It was full of good conversation and the kids kept us laughing. Short example: Mom, Courtney and I were in the office with Wade, my brother's 3 year old son, and he was telling all of us that we were characters from Scooby-Doo. This is one of his new favorite shows. I was Daphne, Jennifer was Velma b/c she has glasses now, and mom was Shaggy (not sure how that worked out!) and then he told Courtney she was the ghost. And she said okay. Then he backed up and looked at her with furrowed brow and a worried look and he slowly walked into the foyer and ran as fast as he could into the living room. Clark later told me that when he went into the living room, he noticed that Wade looked strange and he asked Wade what was wrong. He said "there's a ghost." and Clark said "where?" and Wade told him it was in the office. Clard said "there's no ghost Wade" and he said "yes there is!" and then began to cry. He was very scared and upset!! So Clark had to come in and find out what was going on and why Wade was so scared. How funny what goes on in those little minds of theirs! SO CUTE.
I thought everyone might like to see a picture of the kids. Jennifer's kids are getting so grown up. Courtney is now as tall as I am. Unbelievable. Time flies. The pictures of all the kids at the fireplace was funny, it's hard to get all the kids to cooperate simultaneously! But at least you can see all the kids together. And I also include a picture of my pumpkin log that I was very proud of. I don't bake very often so this a big thing for me! It turned out to be quite good. Yay me! So I hope everyone had a great holiday! Enjoy the photos.
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Guess what. There was barely any green bean casserole left, so you didn't miss anything. There was only about one spoonful in there anyway.
And I had to tell you that when Wade told Courtney she was a ghost and then walked away, QUICKLY, he then came RUNNING into the living room CRYING like someone had hit him or something!! :) He was obviously scared and ran into Clark's arms, oh, so dramatic. "I scared!" Cracks me up.
I am SO tired, and cannot seem to get right-side-up again. I fell asleep this evening from 9-12 and that was a mistake, evidently, because now I have a headache and can't fall back asleep. At least we have groceries. The house is a wreck, however, because we have Christmas boxes all over the place waiting to be unpacked. John and the girls did get the tree up and lit, but I didn't have it in me today to do the rest. It's a mess, but I'm hopeful that by Monday we will be back to normal.
Enjoy your weekend!
I sure enjoyed that post, Jan. We had a great time Thanksgiving, my first time to be with ya'll on Thanksgiving in seven years! The food was wonderful. All us girls are good cooks! Good ole southern cooking, can't beat it. One of the ladies I work with said she had tried to make pumpkin rolls and could never get the bread to roll without breaking. How did you do that? I took left overs for my lunch the next day and today, too. Yum.
Have a good week. Talk to you soon.
Love,
Mom
Enjoyed reading about your Thanksgiving - could almost smell the turkey and all the trimmings!! As happens sometimes, reading your blog brings tears to my eyes but thanks to Wade,also, a burst of laughter!! The pictures were appreciated, too. Thanks - and God's blessings. Love, Mom (Kay)
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