The Dinner

Rich made some wonderful stuffing from my homemade bread.  He cut 2 loaves up into cubes and toasted them.  It was the first time I had stuffing from fresh bread.  He also made the sausage that he put in the stuffing.  So Yummy!

We watched the Macy's Day parade while Rich cooked the turkey and stuffing.  Lots of color and fun music.

The finished stuffing!

Mary had fun making this little turkey at the last homeschool play date.

We bought a Thanksgiving flower arrangement for the folks.  We brought it along with the stuffing and 22 lb turkey.

Rich's sister had a fabulous spread of chips and dip for us to snack on while we waited for the dinner to finish.

This one was goat cheese with peach jam, basil and pistachios.

Rich's turkey!

Mary watching Grandma cut the cranberry sauce.

The whole gang for dinner.

 

We had a very blessed day and so thankful for all we have!

Happy Thanksgiving to our wonderful friends and family!!

Fall Fun

We have been having some fun fall activities with Halloween and homeschool park days.   Mary painted some pumpkins and dressed up her sweet little cat with Hawaiian stuff (she was thrilled as you can tell by the photo. lol)  We also had a park day outside, a bowling day and inside play date at the Pheonix library as the park is getting too cold this time of year. 

 

 

Reformation Day Celebration

Reformation Day was October 31st.  So us and 2 home schooling families decided to do a dinner and some activities for the kids.  Our friends, Dan and Marissa reserved the Phoenix Grange Hall and we had about 15 people, 5 kids and 2 babies.  It was a pot luck.  Rich and had made dinner rolls from scratch and other people brought sausage and sour krout, potatoes, roasted beets and carrots and then 2 desserts.  There was lots of food and fellowship.  Marissa had printed up sheets a paper that had different famous people, that lived during the reformation,  short biographies.  So during the dinner different people stood up and read their biographies.  The 3 families made a 500 link chain to represent the 500 years since the reformation began.  It stretched all the way around the room.  They also had some of Martin Luther's thesis points on paper with pretty designs that the children colored and they pinned them to the door.  After dinner we sang some reformation hymns and then closed in prayer.  It was a really fun evening.  Here are the pictures from the evening.

 

Mary's Birthday

We just celebrated Mary's 11th birthday. She is growing up so quickly.  She is now 5' 2 1/2".  She is now taller than her grandma and loves to compare her height to her when she comes to visit.  Always big smiles and hugs.     

Mary loves the Despicable Me movies, so she wanted a Minion cake this year.  So I baked a banana cake sheet cake and decorated it with yellow, blue and black icing.  He was a lot of fun to make. 

She received a lot of lovely gifts and cards from friends and family.

She enjoyed reading each card.

Mackie had to check out what she was getting.  He always wants to get in on the action.

She had a really fun day!