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| Pheasant Hunting the day after Thanksgiving. |
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| Skeet shooting. |
We had a great Thanksgiving weekend. It was full of wonderful events. First was of course Thanksgiving at Matt's house and the annual favorite--Turkey Trot. Alec and Jocelyn joined me in encouraging Gavin to run a minute, and walk 2 minutes for 3.1 miles (5K). I was amazed how well the kids all did, and I loved teaching Gavin that he could do it. Marissa even did a couple of one minute piggy-back rides for both Gavin and Mandy!
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| Becky found a heart potato ...an omen for how fabulous the mashed potatoes would prove to be. |
Kristi timed dinner beautifully, the Turduckhen was a fun experience--Cajun flavored. I really liked the duck part, and it was so pretty sliced. The smoked turkey one of my favorite turkeys I can remember. As always picking Dad up at the airport was a highlight for the grand kids.
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| Marissa and Kristi found this veggie turkey and made it! |
Click on the "read more" words below to see more pictures!
We had 11 pies for dessert, and breakfast the next morning, and great company for the whole day. Becky made her famous chocolate velvet pie, mom her mincemeat and Swedish apple, Jocelyn cherry cream, Tiffany pumpkin, Kristi pecan, and I tried a new blueberry recipe. (More of a cheesecake than a pie sadly.)
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| My favorite is always the Cherry Creme! |
Matt always has some fun thing to try when we come for Thanksgiving. This year, in addition to other things, he set up a tennis court in his newly framed garage, a soccer game in the "outfield", and a kickball game that had Grandma running the bases and me jamming my finger. :)
We made an assembly line for putting together Jocelyn and Alec's wedding invitations. A HUGE thank you to my peeps for helping us get that done. It is amazing how fun work can be when you are doing it with people who have fun while they are working hard. (Thanks to Shawn for the pictures!)
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| Three generations of Runyan girls & Eddie. |
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| Tif even got to see Nathan in Denver! |
Thank you Matt and Kristi who are so welcoming. We love being with you and your family, and appreciate you letting us invite ourselves to Thanksgiving. It is one of my and my kids very favorite places to be.
4 comments:
The three generations picture turned out great! I love getting to relive Thanksgiving through the pictures. What a great post! :)
It is a fun picture of us. Love that we got to spend time with you and Alec. It is great getting to know him better. I like having pictures too...I am not sure it is really blog-esk, but it works for me!
It was a great weekend! We sure love having everyone that was able to come! And it was great to go to Lucy's farewell too :) Thanks for posting all the pictures!
Thanks for commenting! Missed getting to be with you guys this past weekend, but so glad you got to go!
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