Thanksgiving 2017

We had a really great Thanksgiving this year. My cousin Laura recently moved to the Seattle area and she came, my cousin Dione recently moved to the Spokane area and she came, and my Aunt came with her family from Boise. Along with all the rest of us that are always around we had a real party. There were around 60 people at our big Thanksgiving meal and it was awesome. My parents are such great hosts. My mom spent days in the kitchen but it didn't seem to phase her one bit. I'm so grateful they are willing to have a big crowd, because it is so fun and wonderful to have everyone together like that.

My cousin Laura and I had so much fun together as kids and it was pretty great to see our kids having fun together too. 

The Queen of the kitchen!

Drew, Milas and Brian carved the turkeys. There were four. Brian fried three and Julie roasted one. They were all so yummy!

Laura and I chopped maybe a million sweet potatoes, WAY more than we actually needed. :)

Some of the delicious food

Our friend Jeannie brought this. She always makes everything look so beautiful.

Just some of the pies

Some guys watching football

A little ipad party

Five day old Avery even joined us!

We went apple picking the next day to make some apple cider. The weather was so nice for the end of November! 

 Brynne was excited about this tiny apple she found.

 Rides in the bed of the pickup are always a hit

 Next there was some gun shooting

 On a whim my dad built the most amazing Tonka truck dirt track.

I got to shuttle kids back and forth from the track/shooting to the house.

The guys went riding and some of us went to watch them.

The kids were wanting a ride so I grabbed Drew's dad's four wheeler and the kids took turn having rides around the outside of the track.

Shepherd and Parks