happy today

here are our thanksgiving pictures. i'm still completely stuffed. our food was really delicious this year! i have mastered Sister Wooley's pie, and even wrote up and official recipe so we won't have to make it up every year (and have it fail half the time!) i photographed my rolls so you could see how overzealous their rise was this year! i didn't get a pie picture--duh! but it was beautiful and perfect! seriously. adam had to go to the urgent care center two nights ago for his asthma (it's new!) and he was super hyped up on this steriod he's taking. it's a little unsettling and reminds me of the no-doz story i've heard so many times (how i ate a whole box when i was a baby and was wide awake all through the night.)

our weather was really nice today, too! very lucky! (see the kids playing outside?) we also saw the movie 'Bolt' this afternoon, which was very cute.

since we all love food, here's a summary of what we ate:

turkey
ham
sweet potatoes (the marshmallow, walnut, brown sugar kind)
mashed potatoes
*fresh green beans
*acorn squash (with brown sugar)
*orange rolls
creamed corn (homemade by shannon, not yucky canned)
*cranberry orange jello salad (like grandma's)
cranberries
*stuffing
*shrimp with cocktail sauce
*jalapeno jelly with cream cheese on crackers (this is my new favorite thing! i made the jalapeno jelly and it was soo good!)
pumpkin bread
pumpkin cookies
celery with this cream cheese filling
cashews
apples with caramel toffee dip
seasoned oyster crackers
apple pie
pumpkin pie
cherry pie
raspberry pie (baked by christen)
*raspberry pie (sis. wooley's)
chocolate mousse pie
pumpkin cheesecake
cherry cheesecake

*made by me

i hope your taste testing went well! post pictures, if you have some. i missed everyone, but we really had a great day!

happy thanksgiving, sweet lovelies! i love you!!