Thanksgiving... and a lot of family pictures

Our plans had been to go to Shreveport to have Thanksgiving with my family.

All my siblings were planning on being there and we were also going to celebrate Christmas at the same time.

Well, Tom couldn't get off of work.

So Thanksgiving by ourselves.

I wanted to go ahead and make the whole spread for just us.

Figured it would be a good time to try my 1st turkey.

To go along with the turkey, we had butternut squash, spinach casserole, rolls, and dressing.

(Really sad I forgot the canned cranberry sauce- ha. my favorite!)

Pecan and Pumpkin Pies

We started our preparations a couple of days ahead of time.

(I major over documented this holiday!)

While MG and Simon were taking a nap, 

Henry helped me make our pecan pie.

Found this recipe on AllRecipes.com

So Delicious!

The silly butternut squash took forever to roast. It turned out ok.

Margaret Gray and I made my great grandmother, Margaret Gray Rollins' pumpkin pie.

I undercooked it. Tasted good... funny consistency.

THANKSGIVING DAY

Took it easy that morning.

Watched Robin Hood.

MG put on a dance production for us.

watching some videos

These are the rolls Tom's Grandmother Louis always served.
He called several grocery stores to find them.

The turk

Craziness around the house while the turkey cooked

Henry's shirt from school... was supposed to wear it for his Thanksgiving performance at school... but we were gone to the Smokies.... whoops.

Set the table

Henry picked out these owls for me for my birthday.

Good thing, because I have no Thanksgiving decor.... really no holiday decor except Christmas.

Henry made the place cards

Family pictures on my birthday bench from Tom

Tom is a real trooper taking these pictures.

Henry was crying, not laughing.

Now Simon's turn to cry

MG got best behavior award

"Give me a sad look"

"Now surprised"

"Tongues out"

"Silliness"

Turkey's ready!

It turned out just ok.... edible.

You can imagine how much we had left over.

For the whole next week, that's all we had... sandwiches, chili, tetrazinni, pot pie....

Watching the rolls

It was a "quiet" evening... just us.

We have so much to be thankful for!!!