Thanksgiving

We had a great time for Thanksgiving.  Here is a run-down of our activities.

Wednesday: Andy & Amber and family arrived at our house from Frozen Wyoming.  We chatted and the kids played then we all went to bed.

Thursday/Friday: We all woke up after sleeping in and started to make the turkey and Andy made his famous Banana Cream pie, Amber made blueberry (my favorite).  Around 11am we started making the yams, mashed potatoes, corn, relish tray, gravy etc.  Somewhere in there, we started to make my Mom's famous cornmeal crescent rolls.  The kids helped by rolling up the dough.  It was real nice to have a roaster (Thanks Mom&Dad) this year for the turkey which allowed us to bake all the other stuff and we were eating by 1:30 p.m.  Then we all had naps and watched football.  Somewhere around 8pm, we sent some kids off to bed and then somewhere around 10:30 p.m., the parental units headed over to Walmart.  We waited in lines to get specials at Midnight.  Somewhere in the 11pm range, we noticed that a certain line for the 5am sales had already started to form so we jumped in that line and waited.  We took Amber home around 12:30am and then Andy & I came back and joined Krista in the line to wait.  It was certainly interesting to stay up that late - I haven't done that in a while - about a year since last black friday happened.  Nothing really exciting until time to buy and we were out by 5:30am.  We all went to eat breakfast at McDonald's and then took Andy over to Macy's to look at a leather jacket he had been looking at in the ads.  We were all so tired, we went home and crashed.  Later on Friday, we went out to Old Navy with Amber and bought some clothes and then back home.  More naps in there somewhere.  We watched a movie at the house and then bed.

Saturday: We had a quick breakfast and then went to watch Megamind.  Home again and more naps.  The parents all went out to do some quick shopping at a photo store and Macy's but came up empty-handed. Then we hit up Costco and went on a date to Red Robin and home and bed.

Sunday: Some DeGraw's got to sleep in (jealous) and other DeGraw's went to church.  Andy, Amber and family left for Wyoming around 11am

What a great Holiday.  That's what they are all about.  Family, eating, naps, sports and shopping.