Happy Turkey Day

We had a great "first" this Thanksgiving, after 13 years of always having to be at work bright and early Friday morning, Stephen has the whole week-end off. I guess if you work for a college, no students = no work. His new job is so cool.

We took our time getting ready for the Feast. We decided that to get the best flavor out of our food we needed a clean oven. At 10 in the morning we started this particular process. We choose the 2 hour cleaning cycle thinking that our Sweetheart turkey only took a couple of hours to cook. The thing about directions is that they only work if you read them. Stephen had the read part of the instructions if we were dealing with a turkey that had already been thawed. Our turkey was frozen though(oops). We had to add 2.5 hours to our total cooking time. This gave us a very relaxed, and enjoyable day. We were able to get all the food ready when we wanted, Sarah set a beautiful table, I was able to take a bath and read a book, the boys played inside, outside and the wii. Not forgetting the football that was watched. We got to do it all. Even thought we ate later that usual, the food was delicious and plentiful, there was plenty of gravy due to Tyler Florence and his recipe, and we even had pumpkin pie.

Isaac decided that he needed to know the definition of words, so throughout the meal, we had the dictionary out finding out meaning to every day thanksgiving-type words (i.e. Thanksgiving, pilgrim, Indian, etc.) which then lead to other-type words, (toad, frog, hypocrite...). Who says you can't have meaningful table conversation?

Later we went to see Stephen's folks and family members who were there (half the boys and half the girls) and stayed there until *gasp* after 10 o'clock at night! (Now for you night owls out there, this is a humongous deal for us. Being in bed by 9 is not unheard of at our house - we're totally boring, I know), but without the early work schedule we thought we mix it up a bit. Way to go us!!!

Sage decided that he wanted to see what all the fuss was about with early-bird, and door-buster sales, so thankfully, his Grandpa loves those things and Sage slept over so he could get up at 3:30 and be a JCPenney's at 4, Toys R Us at 5, and Radio Shack at 6. Crazy if you ask me, but hey - whatever floats your boat.

This is a short video of the things my family is thankful for - I love these guys!