Better late than never right!
We spent Bruce's First Thanksgiving at home, hosting dinner for 11 guests plus the 3 of us. We were blessed to have Kevin, Rhonda, Lena, and Brett, our friends Matt, Valerie and their daughter Avery, and some of Deanna's family from Delaware Aunt Carole, Uncle Tom, Aunt Kathy, and Audrey come for dinner. Robb again prepared a wonderful meal consisting of a full bird plus another turkey breast, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, salad, rolls, and of course, corn! And we were also pleased to have THREE pumpkin pies, thanks to Aunt Kathy and Giant. The cook is a bit of a pumpkin pie purist; the only dessert allowed was pumpkin pie. But Aunt Carole luckily snuck in some petit fours too!
We continued a few Green Family traditions including the Thank You tree, where each guest and guests abroad as well (Pop Pop and Grandpa and Grandma Heier contributed too) write what they are thankful for on a paper leaf and we tape the leaves to our Thank You tree. A special thank you to Lena, Brett, and Avery for their help making the tree and leaves. We also kept a tradition from last year of making turkey hand placemats, we had some pretty interesting ones!
We spent Bruce's First Thanksgiving at home, hosting dinner for 11 guests plus the 3 of us. We were blessed to have Kevin, Rhonda, Lena, and Brett, our friends Matt, Valerie and their daughter Avery, and some of Deanna's family from Delaware Aunt Carole, Uncle Tom, Aunt Kathy, and Audrey come for dinner. Robb again prepared a wonderful meal consisting of a full bird plus another turkey breast, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, salad, rolls, and of course, corn! And we were also pleased to have THREE pumpkin pies, thanks to Aunt Kathy and Giant. The cook is a bit of a pumpkin pie purist; the only dessert allowed was pumpkin pie. But Aunt Carole luckily snuck in some petit fours too!
We continued a few Green Family traditions including the Thank You tree, where each guest and guests abroad as well (Pop Pop and Grandpa and Grandma Heier contributed too) write what they are thankful for on a paper leaf and we tape the leaves to our Thank You tree. A special thank you to Lena, Brett, and Avery for their help making the tree and leaves. We also kept a tradition from last year of making turkey hand placemats, we had some pretty interesting ones!
What did Bruce think of Thanksgiving you ask? Well, dinner fell right at nap time so he actually slept through dinner, but once he got up he had his taste of turkey and sweet potatoes, yum!
It was a really nice day and it was great to spend time with everyone. Unfortunately, our hands were a little full that day, so we didn't get many pictures, but Uncle Tom will surely have some nice ones we can post later on.
Robb carving the turkey
Our First Thanksgiving as a Family
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