Thanksgiving Day

Joshua and I had one last activity to do before we finished up our Thanksgiving unit for school. We made a bread cornucopia Wednesday night in preparation for the big dinner Thursday.

Thursday we headed down to No. Virginia to the home of some of our dearest, oldest Army friends. (They're not our "oldest" friends--just some we've had the longest....) We've had the tradition of spending Thanksgiving with them since we came back from Germany several years ago. Our families have sort of "grown up" together--when we met Jarrett and Michael were in the 1st grade! It's fun spending the holiday with them-everyone has their "jobs." The men fry a turkey (just part of the over-abundance we indulge in), the kids decorate the tables and put the colored sugar on the edges of the glasses for the sparkling cider, and the moms cook and cook. There are usually a few twists thrown in just to keep things fresh. One year Joe was deployed and Dave and the boys fried the turkey themselves. Then after dinner they hung the Christmas lights. This year Joe's parents were visiting from Minnesota and Jan's mother and aunt were with us as well. And unfortunately this year we were missing Jarrett. Thankfully the family of one of his friends was sweet enough to have him and some other stranded kids over for dinner and he thoroughly enjoyed himself. Thanksgiving is always a fun time to look forward to and such a reminder of the many blessings we have...