Saturday, November 29, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving!

As a tradition, both of our parents come out to see us for Thanksgiving! We love it so much and really enjoy cooking and serving up a big feast! This year, Sandra made the dressing and salad and Julie & Clayton made the mashed potatoes and cheesecake, so it made our job a lot easier! We had a great time eating and visiting all weekend long. They all left his morning, which we were sad to see them go, but can't wait to see everyone in a few weeks for Christmas! Here are a few pictures of our weekend!

Mom, Me & Sandra

Lex and Fred carving the turkey! Check out my homemade pecan pie (thanks to Paula Deen)!


The spread...rolls, cranberry salad, dressing & gravy, sweet potato casserole, green beans, mashed potatoes, salad, ham & of course - fried turkey!


Mom and Sandra! Notice the beautiful flowers that Lindsay sent us from Singapore! Thanks Lindsay - wish you and Greg could have been here too!


Julie and Clayton got to join us again this year too! We are glad that were able to come over and as you can tell - can't wait to meet their new little one in January!

The desserts - Gingerbread Pumpkin Triffle (also a Paula Deen recipe), Cheesecake ( by Julie), Dogfood (by Mom - peanut butter, chocolate and powder sugar chex mix- yum) and a pecan pie!

Me, cooking up a few things in the kitchen!
The boys frying the turkey on the back porch!


The table all set and ready to go!


Friday morning we went to breakfast and then took the boat out and gave everyone a ride! It actually turned out to be a nice day, but once the boat got going, it was a little chilly!


Mom - getting a nice cold breeze on the boat!

We also got to put up the tree on Friday with everyone! Now the house is ready for Christmas! Here are Dad and Sandra this morning before everyone left.


Ginobili - not enjoying the photo shoot this year with his reindeer ears! :o) What a cutie pie though!

3 comments:

Matt and Cindy Fleharty said...

WOW, Gino looks like he's gotten BIG! Is it an optical illusion? Your table looks gorgeous too. Love the colors!!

Mary's Pics said...

Dear Kristi and Lex,

Thank you for a wonderful Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for.
I am very thankful for you and Lex. (Cindy and Matt too.) I thank GOD for my kids everyday. We have so many blessings.
You made our visit very special. We had yummy food and a great visit....
Lex, I enjoyed going out on your boat. It was a lot of fun.
We enjoyed visiting with Sandra and Fred.
Does Ginolibi miss me yet? ha ha
Tell Julie and Clayton that we will be waiting to hear when the baby comes and wish them well.
Love,
MOM K

guajardo fam said...

What a happy family Thanksgiving! Great job Poths.;)