Thursday, December 4, 2008

Thanksgiving and November!

Here are our Thanksgiving pictures!! We are so lucky that we got to go to Iowa to visit Brent, Danielle, Morgan, and Daphne. We sure love them!! Sorry, the pictures are out of order... but enjoy nonetheless. :)


The day after Thanksgiving we went to a Christmas tree farm and got their tree. We had so much fun! We even got complimentary cider and homemade cookies at the end...mmmm!


Here is a picture of Morgan about to help cut the tree down.


Me and Madeline are checking things out.


She thinks they chose the right one. :)


Madeline LOVED watching Sesame Street and just chillin with her cool cousins!


Here is Josh the day before Thanksgiving helping to accomplish the lofty goal of creating 14 HOMEMADE PIES!!! Completely from scratch! Congratulations Brent and Josh! They were all AMAZING!


A close up of Josh creating a decorative pie crust, of course with instructions from experts Brent and Danielle.


Brent was the MAN of the kitchen!!! Awesome rolls and pies!!


Here is the turkey drying after Danielle brined it... who brines their own turkey?? Cool, huh! It was freshly killed two days before Thanksgiving, so she had to brine, baste, and some other things I don't remember... by the way it was unbelievably delicious!


Here is Daphne setting the table. :)


Our feast awaits us...


This is the product of all the pie baking. We had two pumpkins, two apples (my personal favorite) and a gluten free apple (traded for the chocolate mousse pie), 2 berries, 2 pecan, one banana cream, two coconut creams, a cheesecake, and I think that's it. So maybe we only had thirteen. :)


Final preparations...


Feast time!! We all have so much to be grateful for!


This is a random picture. Madeline and I were going outside to play in the snow (which she didn't enjoy as much as I did). Here she has on all her snow gear. :)


This is Madeline's favorite past time. :)

5 comments:

Cincy Mattingleys said...

That is a lot of pie. We also were impressed with Madeline's hair. It has gotten so long. Julia says, "Madeline is silly when she was in the picture with her eating the candy bar. Because it said mmmmm." Also, I like your blog layout. It's pretty cute. Thanks for sharing all the pictures.

Kali said...

You guys are all way too cute. Looks like you had a fun Thanksgiving! I cant wait for you guys to come. I'm counting down the days. Love you guys lots!

Preston said...

Wow do you think Brent made enough pies ha ha. thats awesome!!! I am soooooo excited for you guys to come down for christmas. those are some super cute pictures tif and josh. I am excited for you guys to come down!!!!!

Stephani said...

Looks like Thanksgiving was delicious - especially the pies! Yum!! Madeline is so cute - we are so excited for you to come too! Love ya!!

Amelia said...

What does brine mean anyway? oh and tifani...it has been over a month...HELLOOOOOO!!! :)