Thanksgiving

This is our first thanksgiving away from family, thus the first time we have ever cooked a thanksgiving dinner. We were way happy about how it turned out. We got an easy make turkey from walmart and that made things really nice and it was so tasty too.

A look at our table.

Joshy was so exited to eat, as he always is.





We ended up eating turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, stuffing, sweet potatoes, rolls, pumpkin pie, cherry pie and we washed it all down with the traditional martinelies sparkling apple cider. For being our first time on our own we were very impressed with what we did and we really enjoyed the food even though we didn't have family around.



We invited over a classmate of Blake's to eat with us. His name is Jin-Yang and he is from South Korea. It was his first Thanksgiving, he was also kind enough to bring some cookies and frozen yogurt to share.

Making Egg Nog!

So we decided to have a Family Home Evening where we made egg nog. We waited till Joshua and Ezra were in bed and we made the egg nog as a couple. Part of the recipe called for whipping egg whites till they were stiff. Here we competed to see who could get their egg whites stiff first.

A look at the finished product in the kitchen aid.

This is a beautiful picture of the finished product in our glasses. Not only did it look delicious but it tasted delicious too. We also added nut meg and pumpkin spice to it.

Here is a good look at the foam. It was nice for looks but kind of a hassle to drink it with.

It was so much fun to make egg nog together. We are way exited because we are going to make it a family holiday tradition.

Video of Cleaning

Whistler was watching me cooking in the kitchen with my apron on and wanted to wear one too. Once he had one on he went to the mop closet and got out the mop and was trying to mop the floor. Such a good little helper.

Video of Sleeper

Whistler was trying to stay awake as he was eating but to no avail, he nodded off.

Videos of Josh

This here is one of Whistlers favorite games where he wears a blanket over his head and trys to navigate around the house. He has gone from the living room to the back bedroom and back to the living room without looking before. We sit back and just laugh as he walks around, it is so funny.

Videos of Josh

Josh wasn't so lucky this walk down the hall. He still loves doing it though.

Trunk or Treat

Even though Josh is only one and has no real concept of Halloween, we decided to dress up and go to the Ward trunk or treat party they were doing. We went and bought a bag of smarties and a bag of dum dums and dressed Josh up as a Tiger and Ezra up as a Lion.

If you notice on the ground we also bought a plastic pumpkin halloween bucket because Josh was so obsessed with them everytime we pass them in a store.

Well Josh was very happy to at least get out of the house. When we started walking around from car to car he was somewhat annoyed that we had to wait in a line and that he couldn't just wander around. When he finally found out that he could obtain something at each car and that by holding out his bucket people would place something in it the game began and he would then run to anyone that was holding a bowl of candy. Once we made the rounds he decided to see what it was that people were putting in his bucket.

He was a little disappointed at first.

Ezra was a happy little lion the whole time.

When we finally opened a sucker for him he realized the worth of the contents of his bucket.

He really liked the idea of a night of getting and giving candy.

Here is a look into the candy bucket. He got a good amount of candy.

On the way home we made the mistake of letting Josh hold his Candy Bucket on his lap. Well just before we got home we looked in the back seat and josh was holding a hersheys chocolate bar. We were quite suprised that he was able to open it but he did by chewing on the end of the wrapper until it was opened and then he sat there and sucked on it trying to get as much chocolate out as he could.

He was pretty happy about his obtaining a bucket of candy and the accomplishment of being able to open and eat the candy himself without mom or dad knowing.

The real sad thing is he is now somewhat of a stinker and knows that there is candy in the house and will through a fit if he does not have free access to it. We had to finally hide the candy on top of the fridge and give him the empty bucket so that he could see there is no more candy. I tell you what, this little boy really like halloween and we had a really fun night out and about as a family.