Happy thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!  As Thanksgiving approached, Elvin's mom ordered some treats for the kids.  

We picked them up and they were a dozen mini bundt cakes.  

There were about ten different flavors and we cut them into quarters so people could try lots of different flavors.  Karina's favorite flavor was confetti.  Gabe liked red velvet cake flavor.  Eliana liked the marble which had streamed of chocolate cake mixed into the vanilla cake.  

For Thanksgiving, we didn't have family coming over.  Instead, we had a friend who is mentoring a family from Iraq that emigrated to the U.S. a couple of years ago.  They were wondering what Thanksgiving was like and so we invited them over.  The family is a grandmother with two grand kids.  Also she brought her friend who brought one kid over.  Their English was really good.

We usually don't serve turkey or any of the typical Thanksgiving accoutrements.  Instead we had steak and roast chicken.  They brought over lots of food as well...this is a rice dish with huge chunks of lamb.  It was really good.

So we had a fun Thanksgiving and had interesting conversations about the holidays that are celebrated in the U.S. and in Iraq!

The steak we had was on the bone and we gave Lucky the bone.  We've never done this before and he just stared at it for a while before he started licking it.  He's a funny dog.

Later that weekend, we went to the local middle school to run around on their track.  Gabe brought the soccer ball to play around.  Xiao brought his bicycle.

Xiao was great on his bike.  He is pretty much at the point where he won't need training wheels for much longer!

We hope you had a good Thanksgiving as well!