Turkey Day!!

Thanksgiving Day 2015  - surely it was a day to remember as the weather was NOT good and we were missing part of our family - Jill, Robby and the kids headed to Austin, TX to be with Robby's brothers' family...............and we missed them all day long!!

The weather - yuck - COLD and ICY and SNOWY and just downright miserable.  We were all thankful to be safe inside Jaime's house, nice and warm!!

Glenn and I were certainly glad we had driven up the night before - the roads were still good then although we did hit freezing rain outside of Denver and it only got worse as the night wore on!

I'll start the pictures off with the youngest member of our family - the cutest turkey ever!!

 First on the agenda was making the place cards and filling them with M and M's (note - it is almost impossible to find the FALL packages of M and M's - we had to resort to Christmas M and M's once again.....................) Evan actually was there helping but somehow didn't make it in the picture!  Rayna took charge of this project and she kept the kids entertained for a little while at least!

 Our awesome mashed potato person - Gary!!  He did an excellent job!!

 Brad was in charge of the turkey again - we only had to do one this year since we were short 4 people and Brad grilled it on his new grill!!  It cooked a whole lot faster than he thought it would so was actually done by mid-morning but that was OK - gave us incentive to hurry dinner along so we could eat a little earlier!! (note - the turkey looks burnt but it wasn't - coloring was just from the grill - the inside was nice and juicy!)

 Our baker Jessi actually got up that morning and made homemade crescent rolls - as usual, they were awesome!!  (along with the pies the day before)

 Jessi took this opportunity to PHOTO BOMB the kids' picture!!  But at least she looks cute!!  The 3 kids sat in the small dining area while the adults took over the main dining room table!  Evan had woke up with a sore looking eye so put hot compresses on it during the day.

 Seems like the only time I take "couple" pictures is at Thanksgiving - it's not too often I remember to take them otherwise!!

 Little Gwyn sat at the table with us and she had sweet potatoes!

 Our Thanksgiving menu consisted of turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, stuffing, corn pudding, sweet potatoes, relish tray, punch, crescent rolls, oj jello salad (fresh green beans were on the menu but after cooking them, we decided they were BAD and promptly dumped them!!  take no chances on Thanksgiving Day!!) with apple and pumpkin pie - it was all delicious!!!

Clean up didn't even seem too bad this year either!  And I'll have you know, I think this was the FIRST turkey in many many years that I didn't have to PICK CLEAN the turkey!!  I told everyone I was loading the dishwasher this year and that's just what I did!!

I'll leave you with a picture of the OLDEST member of our family - the biggest turkey of all - ha ha!!