Thanksgiving

How about those UTES!!!  Wow!  That game almost made us want to get some of these for Thanksgiving:

We missed seeing everyone this Thanksgiving, we wish we could have gone home to Utah to see all the family.  

We decided to go all out for our little family feast and it was fantastic!  We'll give you a rundown of what we made:

Here' Natty layering marshmallows on the sweet potatoes.

Natalie seems to think our dinner is hilarious!

Natty waved her magic wand and dinner was ready!

Here is our turkey, potatoes and butternut squash soup.  Yes, that is bacon on the turkey.  It was fantastic, thanks for asking!  We let the turkey soak in a brine made with maple syrup and spices overnight, rubbed sage butter under the skin, then basted it with a glaze made with maple syrup every half hour while we cooked it. The bacon went on for the last hour.  The gravy from this was the best we've ever had.  WOW!!!

We need to do one of these for Christmas.  It was the best turkey we've ever had.

Here are our sweet potatoes.  Delicious!
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Sage stuffing with apples.  We put some bacon from the turkey in this as well.

The spread.  We made a pumpkin spice cake with orange cream cheese frosting for desert.

The dishes.

DELICIOUS!!!

Natalie made this "Jointy Bus" out of legos.  She also made the great backdrop.  She still loves making things out of legos.

Pictures of our house.

Here are some pictures of our house:

Natalie with one of her lego creations and all of us playing Clue.  Natty won!

Here are some shots of our kitchen now that it is finally done!

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