Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  Our Thanksgiving was much lower key that usual.

In the morning, after Gabe got up, he took it upon himself to make a "Happy Thanksgiving" sign out of piece of paper, Scotch tape them together, and then hang them up on the wall in our living room.

The "Happy" fit between our windows, but not the "Thanksgiving"!  So some adjustments need to be made.

Emily's sister from Seattle drove down with her kids.  They arrived in the afternoon and we hung out.  Unfortunately, we completely forgot to take a picture of the food prepared, so a picture of some raw ingredients will have to suffice.  We had roast chicken and potatoes along with baked salmon (which was the salmon that Elvin caught during his trip to Alaska earlier this year.)  We also had cheesy biscuits and broccoli as the vegetable.  

The kids had fun playing the Nintendo Wii.  Emily's brother has a Wii system that they hadn't used in years and dropped it off earlier in the week.  Xiao Yu's favorite cousin (and quite possibly his favorite person) is his big cousin Anders, who helped him play some games.

And for dessert we had two types of pumpkin pie.  Eliana prepared some fresh whipped cream in her special whipped cream dispenser powered by compressed NO2 canisters.

Here is everyone enjoying dessert.  

You may have noticed that we did not actually have any turkey.  No one except Eliana reports actually liking turkey so we never have that on Thanksgiving if Elvin is cooking.  

But on a trip to Costco later that weekend, the turkeys were on sale and Elvin could not pass it up!  He ended up buying a 17 lb. bird for only $7 because it was $10 off!  Wow!

We ended up having turkey on the Sunday after Thanksgiving...well sort of.  We did not actually have roasted turkey.  Instead Elvin roasted some pieces and made a broth out of the bones.  Then he added some meat to make a turkey soup.  He also chopped up turkey meat and we had turkey fried rice as well.  

Hope you had a good Thanksgiving!