Thanksgiving 2012

Thanksgiving this year was held in Eugene for my family.  It was a family only celebration this year and we had it at our house.  Wayne, Rhona and kids came down from Seattle and Debra, Rob and kids came down from Battle Ground, WA.  Wassoms stayed with us and Seattle Meltons stayed with Grandpa.  We had a lot of fun playing and enjoying each other.  Especially Bella and Grayson, they really love their cousins.  Natasha and McKayla were even able to spend the night a couple nights!

23 people fed at our house this year, I think it is our current record!

Lots and lots of desserts!  Wayne went a little crazy, he made 26 dozen pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, 6 dozen chocolate crinkle cookies (all cookies were eaten by the time Wayne left), lemon bars, key lime bars, carmel bars and Rhona made heath bark.  They also brought two pumpkin pies!

 

Dave made 5 dozen delish rolls, a 23 lbs turkey, Rob made 10 lbs of potatoes, a vat of orange jello salad was provided by Mark and Lisa but Stacia made it.  Lisa was pretty much in charge of all the sides with the veggie platter, baked beans and garnishments.

The kids had a good time playing games together at the end of the night.

 

It was really great to have so much family for Thanksgiving this year!  Now we just need to get Greg and Julie and co as well as Kirk and Heather next year!

 

We played bump and kickball one night.  Debra, McKayla, Ashley and I were nuts and went out Black Friday shopping at midnight.  I think they will all agree that it was a little crazy.  We went out again around 8 and it was much better and we actually got a lot of good deals and it was just a fun thing to do, really. 

 

The last night everyone was here we celebrated Bella's 4th birthday which will be in a different post.