Happy Thanksgiving!

WOW- what a great day!
As the Americans are going crazy about Halloween, they are also making a big deal out of Christmas and Thanksgiving!
The last Thursday in November is celebrated with a big dinner- turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, assortments of pies and cakes and a lot more- I loved it!

A few days ago the kiddies attended an arts and crafts activity at the library and did a turkey- they are very proud at them and did really great!

We started our day with decorating the house with Christmas stuff- this means taking off the Fall and Halloween decoration and putting up Christmas deco- fluffy trees, lights, christmas stockings, the manger, lava lamps aaaaand- putting up the Christmas tree and ornaments!
The Purvis family has a fake tree- made out of three pieces! The middle piece was as big as the tree that we usually put up at home ;)

Spreading the branches ;)

Then we continued with decorating the tree and the house- it took us all day, but we had such a great time! The kids enjoyed it and I got in "Advent- Stimmung", which I really like!
Shelly has a lot of wonderful winter- decoration, which really makes me feel cosy and gets me in the Christmas- mood... :)

It was a good project to entertain the kids (as it was raining all day) and to get us closer together- we spent all day together and were just talking, playing, doing nonsense and getting something done!

The manger- Claudia, can you remember playing with Ingrid's? :)

Kaitie and Kyle really did a great job on helping- and they were so enjoying it!

Relaxing after doing such hard work :)

Well..and then it was time for our biiiig Thanksgiving dinner! We  invited my friend Cansu over and headed off to a yummy restaurant with delicious food!!! Oh my god! It had been such a good decision to just eat some yogurt and fruit in the morning and save place for it- they had all kinds of meat- turkey, beef, pork, side dishes, stuffings, salads, veggies, soups- and deserts!!!!! AAAH we all felt like in paradise! (and I am still not able to walk properly again ;) )
We had a really good time!
What I also like about that day is that people wish you a Happy Thanksgiving already one week before that actual day! ;)

I love Thanksgiving!

Kyle's Dinner :D

As everybody is asked what he is thankful for on Thanksgiving, also Kyle was asked that question- his answer was:
" Dad....- and CHICKEN!"
He's a funny little guy..

Everybody enjoyed dinner and had a blast!

The whole bagasch ;)

It just has been an amazing time- and now I am sitting in a wintery-atmosphered living room enjoying myself.. AWESOME ;)

Happy Thanksgiving,

Ida :)