Our Thanksgiving at home

We had a great day at home yesterday. This is the first time both of our lives that we just stayed home with our own family. It was so peaceful. We did miss our family. I called my sister and she was preparing food for her and her husband. We discussed what we were both cooking, and we both wanted some of the things the other was cooking. So, I wished that we could be getting together to share food! Anyway, I had fun cooking for my family yesterday...I have never done much cooking for Thanksgiving. I normally don't like to cook, but I had pride yesterday in cooking for my family that I am so Thankful for. It was also cool, I cooked favorites from both of our families. We had Maccaroni squares his mom makes, Broccoli Casserole my grandmother makes, a potato casserole his cousin makes, and blackeyed peas, cornbread, and meat. I was just glad it all turned out well, and no disasters in the kitchen that happen so frequently for me!

I started the day off with a big breakfast of homemade waffles, bacon, eggs, and toast.

Here is our Hen Clay cooked. It looked much better than it tasted!
Here is our food spread. It may not look so hot in the pic, but it was Yummy!
My crazy family trying to pose before we ate our meal.
Making covered pretzels with Daddy.
We took a quick trip downtown to go look at the Christopher Columbus boat The Nina. The kids were asking me to take their pic....they are little posers these days!

I was a bit disappointed that the boat was parked down there in all the riverboat congestion. You couldn't even tell much about it. It is the black boat. You can see though, it looks pretty small in comparison to all the other stuff down there. We didn't end up touring it b/c we got there about time for it to close.