Thanksgiving with Family and Friends

This year we had our big Thanksgiving dinner on Friday. It worked out better for everyone as far as traveling goes and it was nice to be able to have the whole family in one place at the same time.

The food was great! We started out with Curried Sweet Potato Soup, then a great salad with mixed greens, chopped pears, pecans, dried cranberries, blue cheese and a simple homemade vinaigrette. We also had turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, sweet potatoes with marshmallows and crescent rolls with herb butter.

Sylvie and Miriam showed up just in time for dessert, which was perfect because we had 7 pies! We enjoyed our dessert and a rousing round of Apples to Apples. It was great to get to catch up with Sylvie and Miriam and Meg was able to stop by for a cup of tea, too.

Saturday morning started out quiet with just Dad and John and I awake, so we decided to start a Scrabble game before everyone else woke up. By the time we were toward the end, everyone else was up and Jill had started a round of Yahtzee and before that was over, Blokus was already out on the table. Here's Dad playing Yahtzee and Scrabble at the same time.

I had to leave around 10am to make it back up to Princeton for my part-time seasonal job at the Paper Source, but it was great to get to see everyone for a couple days.

It was a great Thanksgiving weekend full of all of the things that I'm most thankful for: wonderful family and friends, good food, conversation and lots of fun.