We hosted my parents for the 2nd year in a row but this time we made the whole meal. They brought a ham, drinks, rolls and dessert. It was really fun to work with Fred in the kitchen and work together on everything. The brined the turkey the day before and prepped all our veggies. We had turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, homemade cranberry jelly (which I made and it was SO good!), green bean casserole, cheesy cauliflower, veggie platter and salami and cracker platter. We ate and hung out and the boys went BB gun shooting in the backyard for a little bit after dinner. After they left and we finished cleaning up, I did some Black Friday shopping.
I think I'd like to try and cook our own meal at least every other year if not every year because I want to keep getting better and better with it and try some new things. But it was a fun day and the boys loved having Nana and Papa over!
On Friday, we went to Fred's parents for their traditional Day After Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving. It was mostly our older nieces and nephews and their significant others. Besides Nama, Bampa, Ammon and Julie, we were the old people. But we all had a really fun time, it's just now how it used to be with Fred's siblings and their kids.
We brought the game Pie Face and it was hilarious and so much fun. We also did the turkey box which this year, it was Grandma Allen made by James. We're pretty lucky to have 2 Thanksgivings ever year!!
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