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| Desert cookie - thank you Stuart and Ceit |
Here are some shots of our day - most recent is first. From Shrek II, "It's so nice to have the family home for dinner".
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| Too much of a good thing |
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| End of the meal - everybody feeling full |
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| Pumpkin pie and whipped cream |
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| Desert table |
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| Enjoying the meal |
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| Sweet potatoes, green beans, stuffing, turkey, gravy |
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| Toasting Thanksgiving |
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| The meal |
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| Getting started |
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| Carving baby bird |
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| Pizza for those who don't care for turkey and fixings (who raised these kids!) |
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| Mashed sweet potatoes with marshmellows |
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| Mashed potoates and gravy, waiting |
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| Sweet potatoes cooling |
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| Turkey at rest |
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| My recipes and list of things to do |
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| More decorations |
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| Christmas tree almost done |
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| green beans |
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| mashed potatoes and gravy |
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| Turkey half way through |
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| Tree skirt made by my mother-in-law years ago. I've been afraid to cut it! |
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| One of my mother's creations - a favorite |
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| Friends decorating the tree |
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| My mother and grandmother's little homemade friends |
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| For some reason , the family prefers jellied cranberry sauce, not homemade |
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| Kris set up the tree for me |
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| Setting the table with fine china |
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| Starting my favorite Christmas movie - Elf |
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| My little elf setting up the tree |
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| Bringing the fake plastic tree up from the basement |
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| Sweet potatoes on the wood stove |
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| prepping sweet potatoes |
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| post race relaxation |
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| Post race-pre dinner snack |
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| "shoes off at the door!!!" A mother's day is never done |
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