Thanksgiving 2007

Okay..finally, here are some pictures of our Thanksgiving feast. First...we have the 'naked truth':



The bird ready to be roasted!!



The my lovely 'assistants' washing off the plates and cups we used.


The set tables!



Digging in! We had turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, mixed veggie casserole, stuffing, brown AND white gravy (for my hubby who doesn't care for brown gravy), black olives, pistachio salad, 5-cup salad, corn, a spicy rice dish and sweet dessert balls made by a couple of the students from India, and rolls.







The 'after-effect'.



My mom dishing out the desserts: pumpkin pie, pumpkin-praline pie, apple crumb, and coconut cream.


Sydney with a new friend.



Sydney enjoying her dessert.


Two sleepy-heads.



Sydney just trying to keep from being bored.


Post-dinner dominoes game. You are supposed to play from 'double-twelve' all the way down to 'double-blank', however, they got all the way down to 'double-ones', and found it was gone!! Guess we've never made it that far so we had no idea it was missing from the game. Either that or it is somewhere in my house. It was fun nonetheless.

All in all we had 17 including Sydney. We had a new one this year from China; her name was Alice. (she is the one in the white jacket playing dominoes) Most of the rest came last year, and actually wanted to come back this year!! I wasn't feeling the best (I think I caught Sydney's cold while she was here with us), but luckily K-Mart was open so I was able to get some medicine. (by the way...Zi-Cam is really good and works, but kind of expensive) We all had a good time and ate some good food. Thanks to my Mom and sister for helping with the food and the clean-up! Good thing we only have Thanksgiving once a year!

Thanksgiving

I have just finished peeling 5lbs of potatoes in preparation for tomorrow's Thanksgiving dinner and I must say my fingernails are sure tired!! (just kidding...I did use a peeler!!) I remember helping my grandmother peel potatoes for Thanksgiving; some jobs are just not fun! This year we will have my family, Danny's father, and about 8 other International students from India, Jamaica and China. Here are a couple of pictures from last year's dinner:











It is neat to be able to share with the students our American traditions. The young man in the left picture with glasses is from Russia; he returned home this past Spring. I always worry about getting the turkey done right, and if we have enough food. But the Lord always provides enough every year!! I will be posting pictures of this year's feast in the next couple of days. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

A Day At the Store with Sydney

Okay...it's been a while since I've taken a 2yr-old to the grocery store. It's getting harder for me to pick her up and put her in a shopping cart. Once we got past that milestone, in the store we go.

I had a shopping list and I let her carry it. Halfway through the store, I ask for my list. It's nowhere to be found. So we back track and find it a few aisles back. I had put 2 barrettes in her hair before we went. Somewhere between the soup and the milk, they were gone. I found one still in the cart then we went back the way we came and found the other one. I found some better chicken nuggets than what I had found the first go-around, so went to put the other ones back. Right across from the frozen foods were the snack cakes. I put the nuggets back and turned around just in time to see her grab a box of "Swiss cake rolls" and throw them in the basket. (Even though they are my favorite, I put them back. )

She was a very good girl in spite of our lost list, barrettes and extra items. Unfortunately she has gotten an ear infection over the weekend so she is on antibiotics for 10 days. Hopefully she will be totally fever-free by Tuesday and can go home to mommy, daddy and baby Annabella.

More Pics of Annabella/Sydney

These were taken at the hospital:


















A sleepy little girl: