Turkey Day 2008 part 2

Since I had to work on Thanksgiving and all the family went their seperate ways, we had a second Thanksgiving the Sunday after at my house. It was my first time making a turkey and a whole dinner for that many people. I started off using my faithful Pillsbury magazines and the internet for recipes. I tried to do a few easy recipes so I wasn't stressed the day of. I made cranberry orange relish and smashed potatoes in the crockpot ahead of time. I began cooking and preparing at 8:30am and didn't stop until we served dinenr at 5:30pm. I was so tired and physically sore. It felt like I went to the gym all day!! The dinenr was finished off with cranberry apple stuffing, rolls, and seasoned corn. It was nice having both families over and celebrating together.

Turkey Day 2008

This Thanksgiving I had to work... booo!! Jorie and Izzy went to his cousins house for the holiday. They met up with Auntie Jasmin and all the other little cousins. Izzy ate lots of turkey and stuffing and played all day long! Wish I could have been there, maybe next year!

Our little Goofball!

Izzy is 17 months. Even though she has grown up and changed alot since she was born, she still has the same energy and personality as she did when I was pregnant. She is always on the go, plays hard and sleeps hard. She also loves to make us laugh.... she totally gets that from Jorie! She will put a bucket on her head and try to make her way over to us just so we will laugh at her. She will make funny faces and show us her "eyebrows".

Camping on the river

We went to visit my grandma for a few days in Arizona. Izzy had her first road trip in an RV and first camping trip. We got to stay on the river in the RV with some cousins. Izzy was in the water everyday. We even got to go on a boat and cruise the Colorado River and see some HUGE fish.

Halloween 2008

Nana, Papa, and Uncle Chad came over to celebrate Halloween with us. I made Halloween treats that I found in the Pillsbury recipe book, I love those books (Thanks My-Anh!). We had pumpkin sloppy joes and pumpkin patch brownies. After dinner we walked the neighborhood and trick or treated to a few houses. Izzy still can't say trick or treat but she can say "trick". I also taught her how to knock on doors and ring doorbells the last few weeks in preparation of Halloween! As we went house to house she kissed everything! The plants, people, walls, stucco! After trick or treating we went to a family friends house to see all the decorations she puts up and eat some more. Izzy was done by about 9pm!