Our First Thanksgiving by Ourselves

We've spent every Thanksgiving either with family or with friends who were practically family (like last year with Mike and Rach). This year we were too far from family to spend Thanksgiving with them and Mike, Rach, and Sarah - our friends who are practically family and live here - all went away for the holiday. So we were by ourselves. Micah kept saying that we need to try to get ourselves invited over to someone's Thanksgiving.

On Wednesday Micah and two of his coworkers, Bob and Kristin, spent most of the morning at work planning out our Thanksgiving dinner for the next day. At lunch they filled me in. Their plans included cooking a full turkey, making about 8 side dishes, and creating a turkey out of graham crackers and frosting like a gingerbread house. Let me explain that there would be 3 of us for dinner since Kristin was leaving that evening. We decided on a turkey breast, stuffing, gravy, green bean casserole, and potatoes for dinner and pumpkin pie, homemade ice cream with lots of toppings, and graham crackers and frosting for desert.

Our Feast - We made it ourselves:

Micah carving the turkey:


Our 2nd Feast - Desert - We also made it ourselves, well the ice cream and pie anyway.
On Friday we were invited to one of my coworker's family meal. It was a blast! Her family was great and we played games and laughed ridiculously hard. It was a great time and we felt like we were a part of the family. It was a great time.


For Thanksgiving, Aslan was thankful that we brought out the humidifier. She sits by it, cuddles with it, and chases the bubbles as the water drains into it. Here is her cuddling with the humidifier.