Thanksgiving 2013

We celebrated Thanksgiving on the actual holdiay as a family of 5.  Clint's parents had traveled to New Mexico to be with Adam and my parents were just returning from treatment in Austria.  Clint and I decided to go all out regardless.  We smoked turkey legs, roasted a whole (free range, organic) turkey.  Made my mom's famous cornbread dressing and Clint's grandmothers famous chestnut stuffing.  We had giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, brussel sprout salad, homemade bread, cranberry bread, green beans, blueberry pie, and pumpkin pie.  Nothing was processed, from a box or a can on our Thanksgiving table (except the marshmallows on the sweet potatoes) and almost everything was organic.  I made every bit from scratch myself.  It turned out to be quite a delicious feast and was a lot of fun to prepare.

Our centerpiece included the lego Thanksgiving diorama.  It included a keg.  And a cat.  And sausage.  Interesting. 

The Friday after Thanksgiving may have been the first day since we moved to Stillwater that we did no work at all.  We just hung out all day long.  It was wonderful and rejuvenating.  Now that being said Clint did start cutting down cedar trees to use to build the treehouse. One of our goals was to start a garden at the farm in 2013.  We "officially" did by smashing our pumpkins in a field at the farm.  Technically not what we had in mind, but throwing up pumpkins and whacking them with an axe sure is a fun way to start a garden.  I am not sure why Clint is wearing Beau's hat in this picture.

Over Saturday and Sunday we went to Arkansas to celebrate with my side of the family.  This is the first year that all the kids (except the babies) were old enough to play without adult supervision the whole time.  It was liberating.  It was a beautiful day and the cousins had a blast playing Indians and pilgrims outside.