This year’s pre-Thanksgiving feast was one of the best yet!  It was the first feast for David, Debi, Aron, Ben, Josh and Eloisa, and the 11th feast for Jeff, who maintains his unbroken streak of having been at every single one.  Frank made the most delicious sweet potato pie in the world, plus a butternut squash and apple soup, two turkeys, fabulous macaroni and cheese (with a recipe from Beecher’s in Seattle), his famous cornbread, string beans (thank you Mandi and Ben for prepping those so I didn’t have to!), spicy corn, and pumpkin and apple pie.

Somehow we managed to make the house presentable enough for our crowd of 18 and we even got our heat working in time for the party.  We were pleased to find that the set-up of the dining room and living room is as perfect as we had hoped it would be and that we can fit a whole lot more people into our new space.  We missed a lot of our regular pre-Thanksgiving folks (you know who you are!), but we are confident that we can have a nice big dinner next year — there’s plenty of room for eating AND for sleeping! 

Happy Thanksgiving to all, and enjoy your “other” Thanksgiving dinners!