Thanksgiving

We had Thanksgiving at our house this year. Wednesday night the White's and Ballard's slept over (14 people). By 8 am on Thanksgiving morning the little girls were doing their make-up, Jake's was already on the 4-wheeler and the house was wild. By 10 am Casey and JD and their families showed up and they all went out to shoot guns. Our neighbor and Dean's family came too! It has been a tradition with my family for a long time to have a Turkey Shoot on Thanksgiving.

 

There was a lot of 4-wheeling happening between all the kids. Gracie hit a fence and broke her arm. Besides the broken part it couldn't have worked out more perfectly. The wheeler wasn't broke and fence was fine. She wrecked at about 10:30. Ang (her mom) just had back surgery so she was almost no help in the kitchen anyway, plus she can't drive. Alyson cut her thumb last week making chocolates and couldn't get her stitches wet and it hurt to do the jobs I was giving her. Anyway Alyson, Ang, and Gracie went to the emergency room.  1 hour of driving 1 hour at the hospital and they were back just in time for dinner. 

The little kids made name tags which were mostly incomplete but I thought they were so cute. 

Dinner went relatively well. No one got food poisoning so I'm counting it a success. I cooked and brined my first and hopefully last turkey. I don't like turkey and I really don't like guts. Addy made really good pie and we covered all the traditional essentials. We missed mom and dad and the Keye's but mostly Maddie! O and we all appreciate mom a little more Thanksgiving is hard and VERY expensive.

 After dinner we went back to shoot a little more and clean up the millions of shells.

 We visited, played games, and did puzzles most of the night.

 Thursday night Casey's kids got to sleep over too I think the kids were in heaven!

Friday Hall's and White's headed home. That night we went to the Preston Festival of Light. They had a pretty impressive firework show and light parade.