Thanksgiving Dinner

We had our usual Thanksgiving feast this year. Again we insisted on it being at our house. But different than that last few, we had people come over. We had 3 families from our church come to dinner. We ended up with 17 people in the house from a 1 year old through the 7 and 9 year olds a bunch of 20 somethings and me to old guy in the group. It was a lot of fun.

I was not too proud of my turkey this year. I went cheap and got the $0.68/lbs one. I thought that it was a 21 lbs. bird and needed 4+ hours to cook. After 2.5 hours it was done. CRAP. That was too early. I had another 2 hours until dinner. So we wrapped it up in towels and tinfoil and put it in the corner. After 2 hours the pan was still too hot to hold. The turkey was falling off of the bones, but I thought it was way too dry. No one else would agree with me.

Amy made fantastic rolls. Shalese was bringing rolls, but we made some anyway. Never can have too many. These have been great to make sandwiches out of.Lanna made little turkey cup cakes. Very cool... Here is the table, all set and ready to go, seating for eight.Here is where people wanted to be, at the kid table. Amy had put big sheets of paper all over the table and set out markers and crayons for the kids who were encouraged to draw away. It was great fun. We hope that everyone had a good Thanksgiving. We sure did.