Thanksgiving Weekend

 

 

Siri, Taylor's sister and also the woman at the head of the table in the picture below, made Thanksgiving dinner this year and it was delicious! We had maple glazed turkey, basil cornbread, cranberry jelly, arugula salad with goat cheese and pickled beats, and the most amazing stuffing with cranberries and pecans in it.

 

All of Taylor's family met up at Siri's mother-in-law's house and enjoyed appetizers and talked while the food finished cooking. Ali brought the best artichoke dip and suggested I make a chocolate dip to go along with the fruit I was bringing -- what a great idea. It turned out tasting like room temperature ice-cream.

 

Jana brought the beautiful bouquet and I made the turkey place savers.  I think the turkeys are so cute and dorky.  They make me laugh whenever I look at them. :)

 

The trip out to Seattle was two-fold for Scott.  Ali commissioned him to build her shelves in her pantry, a workbench and a pegboard for garage organization.  On Friday, Scott got to work with Tyler and Taylor's help. He brought all the supplies and put it all together in the garage. 

Scott also took time to play with the grandkids. They saw him relaxing and couldn't resist pretending to sleep too, which is their new favorite game ... if only they loved going to sleep for real!

Grandma Jana took a lot of time to play with the kids.  In this picture she's stretching with them.

The boys took a nice bike ride from North Bend to Snoqualmie after all the work was done.  They crashed on a bridge, but luckily no real damage. Tay still has a sore wrist, but other than that they're fine.

 

We had an early Christmas at our house. Jana and Scott brought some presents for Nelli's birthday and Christmas because we probably won't see them until after the New Year. Nelli got a few new toys, a sleeping bag and Christmas PJs.  Grandpa also made her a stepstool, for washing her hands and helping me cook, and put up a pegboard to hang up her pink potty seat.  Thanks Grandma and Grandpa!

Jana brought some awesome caramel apples and showed us how to cut them to get the most apple goodness off the stick.  Scott, I don't know if you meant to or not, but you're saying "I love you" in sign language in this picture.... how apt.

I just love these pictures :