Thanksgiving 2012

Happy Turkey Day!!  And what a wonderful weather day to celebrate it!  It's hard to believe that it's November and the days are still warm!

 

I had to read last years' blog to see what happened!!  And that's when I remembered that we didn't head to Denver on Wednesday night but waited till Thursday to miss all the horrible traffic!

 

So Thursday morning we headed to Denver - Glenn wanted to stop at a place in the Springs to get breakfast burritos but of course it wasn't open - not much was open in fact - but we did stop at Caribou to grab a coffee before heading to Jaime's place!

 

Jill, Robby and the kids had their Thanksgiving dinner with Bev, Robby's mom so we missed them at our table but they had a great time in Woodland Park!

 

I love this picture - Jaime and Jessi are doing the ham and turkey roll-ups, Rayna is squirting the celery with cheese and Evan is patiently waiting for me to take the picture so he can help me make the punch - now the question of the day is - WHY is the refrigerator door open? 

 

 

 Once again Brad smoked the turkey and then we put it in the oven for a couple more hours - it was delicious!!!  Our menu:  turkey, potatoes and gravy, sweet potatoes, dressing, relish tray, corn pudding, fresh green bean casserole, Hawaiian sweet rolls, mandarin orange sherbet salad, punch, cranberries (Jessi made this from scratch with an old recipe I had and it was SO good!!) pumpkin pie and apple pie!  As usual, we all stuffed ourselves!!

 The kids wanted to sit by themselves - gosh, wasn't it just yesterday that they all needed help and couldn't sit by themselves and cried????  They're all growing up............

 We all enjoyed the place cards that Evan and Kenzie did!

 We even sang "Albuquerque Is A Turkey" several times during the day!!

 A big thanks to Jaime and Brad for hosting our Thanksgiving dinner - it was a relaxed, excellent meal and the guys helped clean up!

 I'm not sure where the afternoon went - but it went!!  With 3 Denver newspapers spread out on the dining room table, we sorted through ads and made our lists for Black Friday! 

Before we knew it, the Savages had arrived!  Aleah and Kenzie were excited to see each other and little Parker is just not so little anymore!!  (the battery died in my camera and can you believe it, the spare battery I had was dead too!!! So no pics of Parker!!)

Aleah spent the night with Kenzie so Glenn went to Jessi's house to stay with them and Evan spent the night with Kylan - cousin sleepovers - how fun!!!  And the girls?????  Of course - we went shopping!!!

We had decided to go to Target and then hit Walmart!!  And it was a great plan as for some reason, we assumed Target was already open and we could just go in and stand by the "specials" and wait for the 9:00 time!!!  But it wasn't to be - Target was NOT open and the line stretched for a long, long, long ways!!!  By this time it was chilly out - and since I'd had that bad head cold (and still had it) I opted to stay in Jaime's car with the heater on until the line started to move!!

Target was pretty much a chaotic mess!!!  The aisles were hard to get through - but the check out went VERY fast so that was a plus!!!  I think I'm getting too old for these late nights!!

Walmart was next but we were in and out pretty fast!!!  I got a nice start to my shopping but unfortunately did not sleep great so 5:45am came way too soon.........To be cont'd