Thanksgiving 2017

We staying in Puyallup this year for Thanksgiving. It was suggested back in October that we simplify Thanksgiving by purchasing a pre-made Thanksgiving dinner...after I declared that over my dead body was I having pre-cooked Thanksgiving and offending my Rose family, Keith and Gerda offered to host and cook the turkey while we split up the sides. Excellent! I've always felt this side of the family doesn't understand the proper proportion of mashed potatoes, so I gladly accepted the task of bringing potatoes and candied yams. I also made Mom's Thanksgiving jello. Justin made chocolate "spheres" popularly coined by the Netflix series "Zumbo's Just Desserts" with chocolate mouse filling and a caramel sauce with chopped walnut. Someone else brought a pumpkin pie.

The day before Justin and I made pies to share and we invited some friends over to have pie pig out with us. My coconut cream pie was amazing! I ate it over the course of the next 3 days. Justin's did blackberry, and the Christensen's brought a pumpkin cheesecake to share. Thanksgiving morning we cooked and baked, and that afternoon we went to the park and played while we waited for it to be time to eat.

Friday we took the day really easy. We had a slow morning and headed to the zoo in the afternoon. It was perfect! There were very few people there, and the animals seemed as much into Emmett as he was into them. The tigers prowled up to the window to get a good look... so fun! We went out that evening to Target and got a few things for Emmett. Saturday I had a "Small Business Saturday" booth event that I tag-teamed with one of my consultants. Justin and his family met up to watch Justice League while I was busy with that - hallelujah! Glad I didn't have to watch that one ;)

Emmett learned a new word this week: "No no no no no no..." ha! This kid!His latest thing is putting objects up to his ear like it's a phone and saying "Hello?" I tell you! More is caught than what is taught... He is 16 months old and  I'm 6 months along with his little brother. My life is so full - I feel like it gets better and better! He loooves his mommy, and I loooove it. Not much else to report on. On with the rest of the holiday festivities.