Thanksgiving Day at the Forrest's...where we are always thankful and the fun never ends!!

Well, Thanksgiving was fantastic. I am pretty sure it is my favorite holiday. I am thinking we need Thanksgiving weekend, if not once a month, then at least every quarter. Can I hear an "Amen"!?

Okay, so first off, the cousins dressed up and played and played while the adults were cooking and by cooking, I mean, cooooookin'! Sorry, it is late and I am tired.



We had a small crowd this year, but bigger than last year. Last year, we had to beg Megan to come, so she did and she loved it so much that we didn't have to beg her again. Although, that might have had something to do with Ryan and Hollie being there this time, you think? Noooooo. This is the best picture that I have of Ryan. He looks great, doesn't he?

As we were coming down to the last things to be cooked, simmered, warmed up, stirred, Megan dazzled us with her awesome cranberry de-canning skills. Amazing.
And it just gets better. Megan, that is going to be your job every year, for sure, because you are awesome at it!!!

Gary is a genius at roasting Turkeys. He says, "Too dry!" I say, "Too amazing, pass the gravy!!"

Here is the pre-thanksgiving spread, along with an awesome table display that I bought at Hobby Lobby for...are you ready..$3.50. I'm not lying! No sir!
not me!
We went to get our extra tables from the crawl space to add more room for the kiddos, however we got there and they were gone. The thoughts were that maybe we lent them to someone and didn't get them back, maybe we misplaced them or duh! maybe they are in the office because we threw away an old desk and put the tables in there until we get something new which...yeah... so we brought up a preschool table. It worked very nicely.



Isabel got to sit at the adult table, even though Gary told her that HE had to sit at the kids table until he was sixteen. Times are a'changing.


We were too busy eating to get photos of that and boy, were we stuffed. I think 30 minutes later we all rolled into the kitchen for pies!!!



Chocolate satin for Lucy.


Chocolate Satin for Isabel.


And for Gary....apple blueberry pie from Estes Park pies courtesy of a one hour round trip drive from Longmont to Estes Park by none other than Hollie. I am pretty sure that this was Gary's favorite part of the meal. When we went to Estes this summer, we had to get him at least three slices of that pie and one whole pie to take home with us. Heaven!!



Then we ended the night with some fun friendly family games. I don't know what Hollie and Megan are doing, but I have a million pictures of them like this on my camera.
see?

London Bridges? I don't really know.


Meagan washing Hollie right our of her hair.

One of my BFF's. Lucy!
Isabel schooled us all in phase 10. It was her first time playing and she only rubbed it in a little. You should of seen her the next night when she was losing...not pretty. We will have to work on that.

This is Megan losing it because she was losing by hundreds and hundreds of points. Sorry, Megan, so sad.

I love this pic. Megan, don't stop loving me!!!!



We had a great time. Well, WE did. Hollie got pretty sick that night and when I say sick, I mean, it was not pretty. So, I am not sure this was her best Thanksgiving ever!! We were glad we got to share it with our family. Thanks for coming, family!!