Our First Thanksgiving

I have been looking forward to this day for a while...for the last 3 weeks I have been planning the meal(s) while Dwain's brother, sister-in-law and their 3 kids are here! I have written and re-written grocery lists, planned out what dish I would use for each item, etc. I got up at 7am this morning and took the turkey out of the refrigerator and out of the brine to let it come up to room temperature...then I went back to bed! lol I got back up at 8:30 to put the turkey in the oven and to get the day started!

Abby drawing and chatting with her cousin Stormy

Everyone playing RockBand to pass time while I was getting the food ready

Stormy and Abby singing

David and Dwain having fun! lol

Brady on drums

Cody getting down on the guitar

Group photo before we eat :)

Me, Dwain, Riley, David, Cody, Melissa, Brady, Stormy and Abby

The turkey in the oven dressed in cheesecloth...almost done!

Me and my honey on our first Thanksgiving

The food!

22lb turkey all carved up!

The "kids" table

hahahaha...I got Stormy taking a big ol' bite!

lol

The "grown ups" table

David cleaned his plate!

Cody with a clean plate too!

Abby...all alone...she's always the last one to finish eating

Relaxing on the couch...David and Stormy try to solve the puzzles

David took a little nap! He was the only one to fall victim to the overstuffedfallingasleepafteryoueat syndrome! lol He woke up and rolled over and said, "time for pie!!!" lol

The dessert spread!!