Thanksgiving 2008

One of the highlights of visiting my mom is the dogs. I always look forward to their happy greeting and this year for Thanksgiving they are the thing I am most grateful for.


So this year I brought Josie a little thank you for all the love.



A little sweater to keep her warm this winter.
Made With just one skein of Lion Brand Thick and Quick Wool-Ease.
Over two days on size 11 needles.

It's my own pattern. I wanted her to have a nice high fashion collar. The length suffered a little...

But that collar sure is cute.

But this Thanksgiving was a whole lot more than dogs. This year us kids made Thanksgiving dinner for mom. Which was what she was most thankful for.

I didn't get any good pics of the food, but just to recap:

Jeremi's famous meatballs-mike assist

turkey in the roaster-Jeremi

creamy brussel sprouts with bacon-julie, tina/mike assist

drunken sweet potatoes-julie

mashed potatoes-tina/julie

creasent rolls

pumkin pie and chocolate pudding pie-tina

It was all delicious. Well everything but the drunken sweet potatoes, they were not so yummy. And my pumkin pie (recipe from Cook's Illustrated) tasted good, but didn't set up sufficiently. Need to try the recipe again to see if I can get it right, but that crust recipe is the best.

When we weren't cooking we were just hanging out. And doing whatever it was we wanted.

Mike monopolized both our and mom's computer, which just happen to be twins.

Julie and mom browsed magazines and we chatted about whatever popped into our heads.

Josie was constantly looking for more love.

Joche wanted someone to play with.
But we like to play games too, so we did.
A family favorite is Aggrivation. It's a cut-throat take on Parcheesi that has six players. We play until we can't play anymore, which was the case that night. Pretty much petered out.

But what about Stanley, you ask, where was he during the festivities?

Like a growly shaddow all weekend. He just wanted to make sure we didn't leave without him.