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Thanksgiving 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had an excellent Thanksgiving, I hope you did too!

This year we wanted to have a quiet holiday at home. I have been into cooking lately so I was excited to tackle a Thanksgiving menu.

We created our menu a week in advance and had our shopping done early.

Asher and Aidan making a pumpkin pie.

They are really getting into this!

Autumn and Aidan working on the apple pie.Check out the lattice work on that pie!
Austin sleeping at 10am! We've been cooking for 2 hours already. Get Up!

Austin making Praline Sweet Potatoes.

They were delish!

Aidan stirring the veggies for the stuffing.

Bart rolling homemade crescent rolls. What a man!

Autumn setting a beautiful table.
22lb. turkey. that should be enough meat!
Thanksgiving Menu

22lb Turkey

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Gravy

Green Bean Casserole

Homemade Crescent Rolls

Praline Sweet Potatoes

Homemade Cranberry Sauce

Pomegranate Salad

Cornbread Stuffing

Homemade apple, pumpkin, coconut cream, chocolate cream, banana cream pies

This year has really refocused me. I have never been so thankful for so many things.God has blessed me in so many ways. I am definitely learning to live a life of gratitude.

So thank you God, for my husband, for my children, for my family, for my church family, for my home, for our health, and so much more!

We're Goin' on a Bunny Hunt

So my BFF Karla who now lives in Georgia says she's going bunny hunting on Thanksgiving at Long Beach City College with her 3 boys. I have lived in the Long Beach area my whole life and had no idea of the bunny population at LBCC. She says in the years they have been going her kids have never caught one. I thought this sounded like a fun idea. I told my kids about it, and I didn't get the response I was looking for. So I told the kids if they caught one they could keep it.

I was safe...right?!

The chase was on...

Apparently Autumn is some sort of bunny whisperer.

This bunny literally hops out of the bush into her lap.

We are now the proud owners of an adorable brown and white bunny, named Mopsy.

THE END

Water Polo Rocks

Austin is a freshman at Cypress High School, where Bart and I graduated. It is so bizarre! He is walking the halls that we made out in not too long ago. :) Anyway, he is playing water polo, and really enjoying it. It is crazy intense! I have no idea what the rules are, all I know is they are swimming the whole time, and drowning each other. Here are some pictures, hopefully we'll be getting a new camera with a better zoom feature.

Austin is the one with the ball in this photo.He is #3