Happy Thanksgiving!

Caleb helped me make HIS banana cream pie.   (Banana cream pie is big tradition in our family.  And amazingly enough, it has no bananas!  LOL!).  I made 3 (yes 3!) banana cream pies and then realized that the pudding I used was "processed at a plant that processes peanuts and tree nuts".  Great.  (Caleb is severely allergic to nuts in case some of you didn't know that.)  I just happened to have extra cream cheese and pudding without nuts so I made him his own.  He was so proud of HIS pie.  In fact, while I was making it, I looked around for the pudding that I just got out and it was gone.  I looked all over the house thinking I was going crazy.  My sister told me to ask Caleb where it was.  So I asked, "Caleb do you know where your pudding is?"  He said, "Yes!  Here it is mommy!  I put it in my fire truck!"  Crazy kid.  So yes, we had FOUR banana cream pies and 2 pumpkin pies because to me, Thanksgiving is ALL about pies!  Blake thought that was too much, but they all got eaten.  

Here's Caleb licking a beater from HIS pie:

I think he likes it!

Lydia helped me make pumpkin pies.  She loves to cook and this year she actually did most of the work.  She was so proud to announce that SHE made the pumpkin pies.

 Our Thanksgiving Feast:
 I think next year I'm just going to make banana cream pies and buy a bag of rolls.  Those are the only thing they ALL liked.  And it'd be a whole lot less work.  We had salmon (our new tradition as of last year), turkey, mashed potatoes, butter and dill rice, rolls, and pie.  And yes, I forgot the veggies.  (But I was secretly ok with that!)

The girls, trying to be SO careful with mom's fancy crystal goblets.  They all insisted that we have sparkling grape juice like we had last year.  So I guess that's a new tradition too.