Our holiday began on Wednesday. It started out raining, which is a big deal around here. It was a lovely cozy morning of baking pies, sweet potato souffle and birthday cake. Dallin and Brennan were excited to help. Isn't my cherry pie beautiful? Then Dave and the boys all got home early (working for a specialist sure has its advantages over urgent care - I don't remember the last time Dave got off early the day before Thanksgiving or the day after). We went to see Madagascar II, but it was sold out. To say that we were disappointed would be an understatement. So we went home and rode bikes (it had stopped raining by then), fed the missionaries (I cheated and bought pizzas), then dropped Brennan off at Kristen's house so he could go to bed there and took the other 3 to see the movie. It was really fun - maybe even better than the first one. And we practically had the place to ourself.
Thursday morning Dave went to church for the turkey bowl (flag football), and had a blast. He said there was just enough mud to make it exciting. Then we had Thanksgiving dinner with my parents, grandpa, uncle Michael, Ben and of course Kristen's family. My dad had to go to work at 2:30, so we ate around 12:30. Poor grandpa had to get up in the middle of the night to join us. I think he got up around 11:30.
All the food was super yummy and I was good at not stuffing myself silly. It was a nice day (we were grateful it wasn't raining), and the kids played at the park while the adults visited and napped.
Then we had Brennan's birthday celebration. I found the recipe for his cake in a South Beach Diet cookbook of all places. It was a flourless chocolate cake, which I figured would work out wellsince I wouldn't have to substitute it (flour substitutes get weird). Instead it called for finely-ground almonds. I did have to substitute with soy milk, vegan margarine, soy yogurt and egg substitute, but the thing actually turned out quite good. It was very rich and fudgey, and Kristen said it was like a truffle cake. I iced it with chocolate icing (vegan margarine and soy milk) and melted chocolate chips to write the words.
He blew it out all by himself on his first try (we practiced beforehand).
Yum! Brennan ate his cake with chocolate soy ice cream while the rest of us ate our pies.
Yay - bath toys!
Happy Birthday Brennan!
Our holiday began on Wednesday. It started out raining, which is a big deal around here. It was a lovely cozy morning of baking pies, sweet potato souffle and birthday cake. Dallin and Brennan were excited to help. Isn't my cherry pie beautiful? Then Dave and the boys all got home early (working for a specialist sure has its advantages over urgent care - I don't remember the last time Dave got off early the day before Thanksgiving or the day after). We went to see Madagascar II, but it was sold out. To say that we were disappointed would be an understatement. So we went home and rode bikes (it had stopped raining by then), fed the missionaries (I cheated and bought pizzas), then dropped Brennan off at Kristen's house so he could go to bed there and took the other 3 to see the movie. It was really fun - maybe even better than the first one. And we practically had the place to ourself.
All the food was super yummy and I was good at not stuffing myself silly. It was a nice day (we were grateful it wasn't raining), and the kids played at the park while the adults visited and napped.
He blew it out all by himself on his first try (we practiced beforehand).
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