Thanksgiving and more

So to save the sweat and effort of detailing out the fun Adam and I had this Thanksgiving I'm just going to cut and paste the juicy details that I wrote to my brother Samuel on the mission. So sorry to any of you who don't care for the extra text...just skip and enjoy the couple photos that got taken. Mind you I had planned on taking amazing photos of all the delicious feast, but just as we were about to eat I whip out the camera and the batteries die on me...so we got one shot of the turkey being carved by Adam and the rest got devoured too quickly to make photos worth it.

(Written Sunday Nov 28th)
Ahhh old people, so entertaining! I'm glad you like Grandma J's pic bein with you, I thought it was a cute shot of her. Speaking of her, I made that blasted, SOOOOO fattening fruit salad of hers for Thanksgiving and we've eaten maybe a 10th of it. I'm just hoping it can hold together and look good enough for me to take to our Ward Christmas party this coming Saturday...that way I'll finally get rid of it. Well can you blame me? Thanksgiving is beasty delicious food already and you just have to have your priorities straight. For me smooth creamy mashed potatoes with turkey dripping gravey is always at the top of my list. I've had 2 servings a day for the past 4 days. Well we did cook enough food to feed 10 people comfortably. Oh....you ask how many people we had over? ...um... no one... just us. Hey we tried! We invited like over 6 different people to join our festivities but none of them came through. And we couldn't let that put a damper on our delicious day!!! So here's the menu....Because I know you care. (not)
16 lb Turkey (Sat in a brine over night, and was cooked with apple, cinnamon, thyme, sage aromatics stuffed in its cavity.)
Massive bowl of home made potatoes
Home made stuffing. We let the bread dry out for 3 days and made it with sage sausage, celery, onions...etc (delish)
Yams...Cheryl's way. But not canned, I bought them fresh and baked them, then mixed them with the bacon and onions
Rhodes rolls..the one item we went pre-made on
O.O.C. delicious gravy...I've never made it so good, but I learned meticulous details online that made it divine!
Grandma's fruit salad, P.S. Mom emphasized BIG TIME how important it was that I let the fruit dry out forever, or the juices would cause my whipping cream to liquidize...well I think I got a little over zealous with dehydrating my fruit, cause it looked pulverized! Not good. I'll have to add some fresh stuff if I'm gonna be able to take it to the ward party and ever show my face again!
Broccoli salad (cold, with the crasins, red onions, bacon...ya know)
Cranberry Pecan Pie
Pumpkin Pie
K about the pies...we made them from scratch the night before, and two pies is a lot for two people to eat, but may I just say that the fact that we didn't make a banana cream pie almost brought Adam to tears. No seriously...and I've never seen him cry. But the reality was we only own two pie pans...so I was barely able to keep one more inch off our fat belly's.

Our Scrumptious Turkey
Emeri helping mom sort through the Black Friday addsEmeri reading the morning paper with her milk
Adam had the job of getting "The Bag" ready for church and this is how it ended up.
Horsey time...They both get quite the kick out of it