Thanksgiving Fest 2009

In true holiday fashion we headed down to Charlotte to celebrate Thanksgiving with my dad's side of the family. It was really great getting to see my dad and Joyce, all my aunts and uncles, grandparents, cousins and extended family. We got to show everyone pictures of our new house and then we stuffed ourselves to the gills!
Then on Saturday we hosted our own Thanksgiving dinner with some of our good friends. Our friend Chris Via single handedly ate half of the 24lb turkey I cooked; I've never seen anyone eat so much turkey! We had lots of yummy food including turkey and gravy, green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, pineapple stuffing, asparagus, corn, cheesy broccoli casserole, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and crescent rolls.. yum! The green bean casserole was kind of a disappointment to me...last year I found out that I am lactose intolerant and realized at Thanksgiving last year that that includes the cream of mushroom soup in classic green bean casserole (which is my favorite dish at Thanksgiving) So this year, I decided a couple of months ago to make my own cream of mushroom soup with lactose free milk and do a test run with my soup. Well, it turned out great, so I froze some of the soup to use for our Thanksgiving... well, it was thawing on the counter, fell into the sink, and Lucas thought it was old food and bye-bye went all my hard work. *sigh* I ended up buying some organic cream of mushroom soup and using that instead, but it just didn't taste right. Oh well, there's always next year. Hope your holiday was just as merry!