Gobble! Gobble!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
We had a quiet Thanksgiving at our house.

We spent the morning putting up Christmas decorations and the stockings that I made everyone. All of our Christmas lights were broken, so we only have the tree up without the lights on it.

Last night I had the boys peel 10 pounds of potatoes while we made trip after trip to the grocery store and then to Walmart getting the ingredients. I have always used Grandma's recipe, but I couldn't find it. I found a good recipe for Lefsa at: http://www.cybershingle.com/recipes/pages/lefse/lefse1.htm Then this afternoon we made 5 dozen lefsa. Megan rolled the lefsa dough into balls, Andrew and Felix did the rolling, and I did the frying of the lefsa, while Doug went to Gander Mountain to try to get a couple of Thanksgiving deals. (He said that within 15 minutes everything was gone~ I love to shop, but not on a holiday, I think that's a time to stay home and do things you wouldn't normally do)

It was the first time Felix had lefsa, so we had to show him how to put butter and sugar on it. He must of have liked it because he had quite a few and was very surprised that it was made from the potatoes that Andrew and him had peeled the night before.

Our turkey dinner included all of the trimmings and of course pie. Andrew had his pumpkin pie, Doug had his banana cream (which I made by the way-no really!!) and Megan, Felix and I had our Chocolate cream pie (which I also made-yes I really did bake!) I was a cooking machine, something I don't normally like to do, but I have been doing it quite a bit lately, which might account for the 3 pounds I have gained back.

After dinner we decided to go to a Movie: The Black Knight. Andrew passed and went over to Conner's house to hang out with him, so Doug, Felix, Megan and I went. Since, we had just eaten an hour before we decided to skip the popcorn. Well, 1/2 way through the movie, I just couldn't take it and I had to go and get a popcorn. Doug thought I was nuts, but I think movie theater popcorn is better than the movie itself, so I got a large popcorn. Neither Megan or I could eat very much of it, but Felix took care of that for us. He finished off the container (which was the largest he had ever seen).