5 Turkeys, 4 meals, and unlimited left-over: Thanksgiving 2010

Thanksgiving this year will go down as the year of too much turkey. We had 4 turkey dinners to attend. FOUR!!! Here's the break-down of the Turkey eat-off.

Dinner #1: Early Learning Center Turkey Luncheon. Carlita's pre-school had a turkey lunch for us parents. Very cute. We got our food and got to eat along side Carlita in her classroom. Very fun. '

Dinner #2: Creative Beginnings Learning Center dinner. Luke's daycare hosted its 2nd annual turkey dinner in the Great Hall of our church. We all brought a dish (I brought salad) and had a lovely time with the kids and the other families.


Dinner #3: Turkey Dinner fun at Ray St.
It was that time of year for the grand Turkey Dinner, hosted by my complex and Special Interest housing. I went shopping with the Cuisine community for 5 turkeys, bread, and endless amount of potatoes and cranberry. Yes you read it right ... 5 Turkeys. We were suppose to get 6 but we decided we didn't need it. So on Sunday, Nov. 17th we got up early at 8am to start the turkey cooking. The turkeys had a nice cold bath the night before. They got cleaned up, seasoned, and into the ovens for several hours. Cooking for all the side dishes started in the afternoon. The dinner was suppose to start at 6pm but we moved it up to 5pm because the food was ready to go. 4:45pm there was a line of over 50 people waiting for the food. Check out the pictures of the event but it rocked!!! I'm very proud of the Cuisine community for their hard work and dedication to putting this event on.



Dinner #4: Our own Thanksgiving happenings
So Thanksgiving finally came and we went to my sister's in Maryland for Thanksgiving. The weather was okay (raining heavily for most of it) so Karl and Mike (my BIL) worked on Sofia's new play castle (yes Mike is making it a fancy -drawn out castle). We had a good family time at Sandra's. Then it came time to go over to my mother's place for some manual labor ( on Saturday). You see, Sandra (my sister) brought a new shed for the backyard to replace the rusty, aged, animal invested shed. Karl and I arrived first at Mother's. Luke wasn't feel so good so he went to bed while Carlita watched Dora videos. But the real adventure was outside where Karl and I with our bare hands took down this rusty-tin roof shed. We had to remove all the boxes within the shed first. Unfortunately as we did, we found mice in boxes. YIKES!!!! Once everything was removed, it was time for demolition.  I kicked, pulled, and unscrewed metal panels. Karl and I had a blast taking down this yucky shed!

Mike and Sandra arrived and got to work on the new base for the new shed they purchased for Mother. the day was complete and we went back to Sandra's for the night. Then Sunday we were back to Mother's with determination to get the shed up and down by night fall, which it did. It really took several people to get it all together but now no more animals will come in and destroy our stuff.




So that was our adventures in Turkey eating. We have so much left-overs frozen, it really can feed a whole floor. At least we have meals to invent.