Thanksgiving day

We were so excited to have Nan & Papa in Chicago to celebrate Thanksgiving with us! The day started out very peacefully- we ate home made pumpkin & zucchini bread for breakfast, watched some of the parade on tv, and Papa had a nice long coloring session with the kiddos before throwing the "old bird" in the roaster and heading off to the showers.

The Coenen fam all dressed up in our Packer gear and we took a bunch of pictures by the Christmas tree of the whole gang.

Mom and I headed to the kitchen to get started with our cooking. We'd made our cherry pie the night before (and enjoyed eating half of it for dinner that night as well), so we had the rest of the menu to tackle. We'd already started the turkey, so we got busy on our mashed potatoes, stuffing, corn casserole, cranberries, fruit salad, and sweet potato pies. It was all going so well.... everything seemed to be turning out great and timed just right.

It's amazing how quickly things can go wrong.

(To be continued)