Thanksgiving 2012

We had 19 people for Thanksgiving this year.  Each year my turkey keeps getting bigger and bigger.  Since my kitchen sink isn't as deep as my old one we had to take the turkeys to the bathtub to thaw them.  The kids were excited to see the turkeys taking a bath!

Our friends came over just before noon and most of them stayed until 7pm.  We had our slingbox on with football for the kids we had Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving and the ladies stayed around the kitchen table and talked.  We did end up bringing out Catch Phrase and the adults enjoyed that as we at another round of food.

It snowed all day so we had a white Thanksgiving.  It is great to have friends to be with on holidays and since we are so far from home it is like our friends are our family.  We are very thankful for the people the Father has put in our lives here and in America.

Last year the kids I made the kids Pilgrim clothing and this year I made them Native Americans.  Todd found the bow and arrows and we gave them to all of the little kids.  Everyone enjoyed shooting arrows!

Dr. Pepper!

Since we moved her 4 years ago there have been some wonderful food items and every day things that have become available to us in our city.  The newest things have been that you can actually buy a Dr. Pepper (6oz. can) in the local grocery store.  For the past few years our Import store has carried Dr. Pepper (regular sized cans) off and on so it is pretty incredible to be able to buy it in the main grocery store.  The Import store is expensive but the grocery store is even more expensive so we probably will not buy them from there.  Along with Dr. Pepper is real Bounty Paper Towels.  After our first maybe 1.5 years here they started carrying paper towels but now we can get Bounty.  Too bad they are about $5.50 a roll, we probably won't be buying them but it is nice to know they exist. 

One Import store in town carries a lot of meat choices.  We cannot get good sandwich meat here but we can buy Pastrami and salami from this Import store when they have them in stock.  We can also buy hot dogs and much to our kids delight we can buy Tyson chicken nuggets.  I can't tell you how being able to get these helps our lunch and dinners.  The kids main lunch consist of peanut butter and jelly.  Maybe that is why they began protesting it in America.