I LOVE Thanksgiving! It is such a wonderful holiday full of food, family, and friends. Combine those three sitting around a table while talking about all of the things that you are grateful for, it doesn’t get better than that! This year Ben cousin Jeff and his wife Anniele flew out from Utah to spend the holiday weekend with us. We love them!

The past two years we have gone over to the Stoker’s house (Ben’s 2nd cousins) for Thanksgiving. Carol makes EVERYTHING from scratch and we have never eaten better food. This year with Jeff and Anniele coming we decided to invite the Stoker’s to our house for dinner. Let me just tell you that I will never think of Thanksgiving the same again. All of these years I’ve always thought of things that I am grateful for but sadly I think I have taken the actual dinner itself for granted. Cooking this year was so much work. I love cooking so it wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy it because I really did. It’s just that it was exhausting and I never realized the effort that went into it. So thank you to everyone who has ever made anything that I have eaten on Thanksgiving. 🙂 Namely Mom, Chenie, LaRae and Carol. Wow you are angels!

Hallie only ate rolls. haha All that good food and the only thing she likes are the rolls. She is funny with textures and she never eats meat. She didn’t even like any pie!

What was on our table:

Turkey

Homemade rolls

Fruit salad

Homemade Cranberry sauce

Mash potatoes (15 pounds to be exact. Yes we have a lot left over!)

Sweet potato surprises (Aunt Tammy’s recipe)

Homemade Stuffing

Green beans

Homemade pies: Pecan, Lemon Meringue, Apple

Pumpkin bars

Thank you Carol for once again blessing us with your Turkey, rolls and fruit salad. We sure love you!