A Time of Giving Thanks

Things I am thankful for.....

Having a family I love spending special times with.

A husband who leads our home with spiritual guidance,

love and laughter.

A mother who teaches by example.

Sons who bring so much happiness into my life.

The radiant smile of this beautiful daughter of mine.

The excitement and life of these four young children.

I can't imagine living a life without children.

True, you would certainly avoid the heartaches

and disappointments; but you would never be able

to experience the true feelings of unconditional love

either. There is nothing more fulfilling than being

hugged by a child.

I am thankful I have been blessed with children.

Our Thanksgiving Day

MMMmmm......this is my favorite way of cooking the turkey.

Have you all tried deep frying?

Wednesday night I melted butter, added all of my spices and seasonings and then injected them and rubbed it into the turkey really well and let

it set in the refrigerator over night.

Thursday, I made sure the skin was cut away well

around the neck so the hot oil could rotate around

and through that bird as it cooked. I halved an onion

and placed it in the basket with the turkey to give it

a little more flavor and then I just waited for that turkey to be done.

HAVE ANY OF YOU SEEN THE MOVIE CHRISTMAS VACATION?

Do you know the part where they bring the turkey to the table and

Chevy Chase cuts into it and it just explodes and lies there all

dried up? And then there's the scene where Chevy Chase is trying

to chew it?

That's what MY TURKEY turned out to be!

Thankfully everything else turned out beautifully

so we were able to enjoy the rest of the food.

It even turned out if you put enough of mother's

delicious cream gravy on the turkey you

could swallow a few bites of it as long as

you didn't get the ones that were so crispy they

scratched your throat all the way down.

Here's Kyle and Amy enjoying their dinner.

After dinner we enjoyed all of the delicious desserts Natalie brought.

Fudge, banana cream pie, cheese cake & chocolate cream pie.

Sabrina and Amy brought pumpkin pies so we had plenty to choose from

While some people ate dessert, others of us were busy building

graham cracker houses and decorating them.

Here's Natalie's complicated masterpiece.

Sabrina, Mother and I were busy helping with the

construction of Kayley, Katelyn, Cameron and Hannah's houses.

Kacey and JJ were creative and made a cute camera.

This picture doesn't show it off but it had the lens, the

wrist strap, the button on top and other cute and clever

little creations.

This is Elder Urbanik from Price, Utah - can you guess what he made?

It's a missionary. White shirt, tie, missionary tag and scriptures.

The bottom part looks like a skirt in this picture but it

was actually pants.

I thought his was very creative as well.

Here are Cameron's, Kayley's, Katelyn's and Hannah's finished products.

I think we all really enjoyed using our creative talents on

something as important as graham cracker houses but boy

did we make a mess.

Sarah's not the only one that has a Cinderella.

We have our very own Cinder-fella!

Check it out....

After he finished everybody packed up and headed for home.

At the end of the day Mike and I both commented on

what an enjoyable day it had been;

It really was.