A bunch of Turkeys

There's never a dull moment when the cousins are together. The Spicciati family http://spicciati.blogspot.com/ and Grandma Rita joined us for a traditional, non-traditionally prepared Thanksgiving dinner. This year it was turkey dinner and all the trimmings and we didn't have to cook a thing. At the Holy Trinity Catholic School Auction a few weeks ago Dave bid on and won a gourmet Thanksgiving dinner provided by Zupan's market - one of the nicest grocery stores in Portland. It was heat and eat. This I could get used to!

The cousins have been inseparable since the moment they arrived. Wii, Lego building contest, bounce house, and shooting cans in the back yard with Uncle Dave. It was the perfect day. Now if only we could buy the Thanksgiving clean up afterwords next time...

Turkey Day, a new way

For the first time in 9 years, we are able to spend Thanksgiving in California with Dave's family.

We also drove this year, a first with the kids. Modern day travel is a blast. My laptop has an aircard so I can surf while Dave drives; the boys have new DS's, courtesy of Christmas coming early for the sake of the trip, a DVD player in the car, 3 PDA's and we are all set.

Dave's sweet grandmother arranged for dinner in the Wine Cellar at the Firehouse Restaurant in Old Town Sacramento (or, as I told the boys, the kind of restaurant mommy and daddy only go to when we have a babysitter!) The kids were relatively well behaved (thank goodness for the private room) they were able to get up and move around a bit considering we were there nearly 3 hours.

Dinner was 3 courses for the boys - they chose the fresh fruit salad with whipped cream and toasted marshmallows, roast turkey with stuffing and string beans and mashed potatoes, and for dessert a S'more creation with graham cracker cookie bars, brownies, toasted marshmallows covered with chocolate and carmel sauce.

I had the traditional turkey dinner, Dave had the prime rib. The potato leek soup and the holiday pumpkin torte was to die for.

Today we are hanging in our favorite hotel and maybe a bit of sight seeing. The boys get along really well with their cousins and are as silly as ever. More pics to come but in the mean time, happy Black Friday!

Stuffed

We had a great Turkey Day and were literally stuffed at the end! The boys had fun playing day and night with cousins - Wii got our money's worth out of that Wii! Dave bbq'd the perfect Turkey! Poor Ian - he just can't seem to make it thorough a major holiday without and ear infection (or really, any month between October and April it seems!) We kept him dosed up on Advil and he made the day just fine!

One little Pilgrim, One little Indian

Happy Thanksgiving!