A yummy day!

Today is/was Thanksgiving. It is only 10:00 pm right now and I feel like it should be two in the morning! Thanksgiving is such a wonderfully exhausting day! I do love this holiday almost more than any other holiday but it burns you out! This year was Dan's first year to have Thanksgiving with his family in 7 years (I had Thanksgiving with them the year he was in Iraq)! He was really excited and it did not disappoint. The food was amazing! I got a picture of it but I forgot to get a picture before everyone dug in - so this is a picture of our spread after round 1. Our dessert table was not to be passed up! We had some delicious stuff and this isn't even everything!

I spent 2 days making a Pumpkin Swirl Cheesecake that I made from an actual pumpkin (because apparently there was a crop shortage on pumpkin this year and I could not buy canned pumpkin) and then as I was walking in the door I dropped it on the front door step. I almost cried.... no really.... I almost cried. I was literally choking back the tears but after about 30 minutes of being really irate with myself and a cheap spring-form pan I was able to enjoy the party once again.

The kids always play so well together. I am grateful that there are so many cousins that get along well..... really well together!

After we overindulged ourselves we headed down to the greenbelt for a friendly little game of kickball - dodge ball style. ....... and yes, that is really what it looks like on Thanksgiving day in Arizona (it was 77*)!

.....now tomorrow brings shopping at 3:30am, putting on the Christmas music, putting up the Christmas decorations and the LIGHTS!!! And the beginning of the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!