Thanksgiving Moments 121-127

To start off with, I thought I would share with you the secret I discovered today for having a really great Thanksgiving dinner.  Are you ready?  Okay, here is the secret, lots and lots of butter.  
Siimple, really, but oh, so true.  Am I right, or am I right?

121.  All my kids were such good helpers today!  It was 
wonderful!

122.  All day, I kept hearing Jarom say, "I love Thanksgiving."

123.  Chocolate and Peanut butter always makes me happy.

124.  My homemade rolls turned out fabulous, and so did my turkey.

 The only major catastrophe I had today was that I put the yams in the oven on broil to brown the marshmallows, and I stepped away from the oven too long.  When I got back, the marshmallows were black on top.  I panicked at first, and then I just picked the burned ones off and put new marshmallows on.  No one even knew. 

125.  Shawn's sister, husband and 7 children joined us for dinner.
 Their youngest is just a few weeks old, and boy is he a cutie.
I thought maybe I could offer her 20 bucks for him.
We do sort of need another baby around this house.  

126.  Shawn's mom, aka. Grammy, also joined us, and boy are
 we ever glad we have her.  She sure can make some
 meeeeaaaan pie.  Oh, and her gravy is fabulous too.  

127.  After the turkey had been taken out of the oven, and we were putting the final touches on dinner, the kids would poke their heads into the kitchen to see how things were coming along, if we had carved the turkey yet, and how much longer it was going to be?  It was fun to see how excited they were. 

I really had a wonderful, relaxing day.  It was so nice in fact, I kept thinking I must have forgotten something really big that I should be making or doing.  But, as far as I know, I didn't forget anything important and we had a great Thanksgiving Day.  Hope you did too.


Check back tomorrow to see what we did for fun after dinner.  Believe me, you do not want to miss this.