Another Turkey Day

On Tuesday November 23 we left for Provo for Thanksgiving.  There was supposed to be this H.U.G.E. storm coming in on Wednesday so we took the safe route, pulled the kids out of school and packed up the suburban.  The storm did not happen as expected but the kids still wanted to play in the snow-what little there was of it.  Since we do not live in the northern climate, we do not have winter weather gear.  My mom has had these coats up at her house that we just leave up there and use when we come up.  The red one on Caleb is about 4 sizes too small but hey when in Provo!

I can't remember what we did Wednesday other than get ready for Thanksgiving Day.  I know there was Sonic involved and probably Chic-Fil-A.  Thanksgiving was held at Grandma Penny's at 1pm.  Lots of the cuzzies came and we ate ourselves ill and watched lots of Back to the Future and football-there is always football. There was also a Phase 10 marathon that lasted about 3 hours that was fantastic.  Sonic is not open on Thanksgiving Day, a point that we found out personally one year when we drove over there and saw someone inside and then waited in the drive through for 5 minutes with many other people in need of liquid sustenance.  We have learned to settle for Will's Pitstop which is open every day of the year and has chocolate donuts that help ease our Sonic sorrows.  Will's makes a darn fine drink in comparison to what Logandale calls Dr. Pepper.  My darling husband got up around 6:30 and put the turkey in the roaster so that it would have plenty of time to cook.  That was a 26 pound bird and since we needed oven space we used the roaster on the counter.  It worked beautifully and they turkey was done like 2 hours earlier than we needed! 

We had lots of delicious food and enough potatoes to feed 10 more families.  My personal favorite is the Jello Pretzel salad.  It's more like dessert but we call it a salad.  We are not Black Friday shoppers so we just stayed home and did nothing-my favorite.  Saturday was the big BYU game and then we went home Sunday.  We have so much to be thankful for and it is always nice to be with family.