Happy Thanksgiving

We had a really great Thanksgiving holiday this year.  To kick off the holiday we were able to enjoy an old tradition the weekend before Thanksgiving -- Friends Thanksgiving (after a three year break).  We enjoyed sharing an evening of food and laughter with great friends.

For Thanksgiving day we planned a menu of our favorite holiday foods. The menu we decided on: fried turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, corn, asparagus, cranberry sauce...and for dessert pecan and apple pies.  I had so much fun cooking everything, but I was most excited about the pies.  I love homemade pies :-)

 Ainsley helped dad brine and season the turkey:

Here is the turkey (nicknamed for the day "Batman") ready for his hot bath (and hanging out with good company of pies and wine!):

Jack hung outside with dad while he fried the turkey:

Some good friends of ours joined us for Thanksgiving dinner.  We had a kids table and an adults table, which the kids were very excited about:

After dinner we let the kids make smores outside:

There is so much we are thankful for and many people we owe thanks to in our lives.  This was a fantastic Thanksgiving and tomorrow we officially start decorating for Christmas... 'tis the season!