November 21-22

We had a rather special Thanksgiving… this was our FIRST American Thanksgiving… turkey and all! The preparation was quite extensive with a second table brought out of the garage, the good china and silver on the adult table and all. There was tons to do the night before and in the morning Nana and Baba were busy cooking quite early in the morning. We had TWO turkeys, two kinds of stuffing (one with sausage), mashed potatoes, a variety of olives, buns, corn… so much food!

The Johnson men carving one of the turkeys

We did DOUBLE our Gratitude turkey for Wednesday in order to fill out our tail a little more.

Gavin

Miss T

And the twins made their turkey centrepieces from the Art for Kids site! Simple and fun and 3D!!! You can find the how to on another site HERE.

So cute!

Really beyond getting ready for Thanksgiving… oh and Ken going in for an IMPORTANT meeting… well we spent time with Nana and Baba and did our basic school stuff. I am definitely going to have to get us back on track with our dinosaurs but we are taking a temporary hiatus on learning about new ones!

Thursday/Thanksgiving had us put our final two feathers on our Gratitude turkey. They LOVED this daily activity!

Zander

Emanuel

Joe, Faithe, Gabriella and Zachary were first ones here followed by Ken’s Aunty Judy, Uncle Jim and his cousins Robbie, Jessica and Angela with her boyfriend Stefan. We had a full house and the kids were over the moon!

Outside with Gabby and Zachary

Hanging out with Aunty Faithe and Nana

We used our very special Home Depot turkey napkin holders AND our Art for Kids turkey centrepieces. The kids were so proud of being able to help decorate the tables. Gabriella brought special paper napkin holders also with a turkey theme!

The kids’ table (sorry Robbie and Jessica! But thanks for supervising!)

Visiting

We ended the day with sitting around and relaxing and LOTS of visiting.

Post dinner rest

Quite the amazing first day of a FOUR day weekend!!!! AND our first day of true snow that STICKS! Though it did not come until the evening. Definitely time to get those boots for the boys!

Thanksgiving is a tiring holiday!