Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Thanksgiving 2012

What a wonderful Thanksgiving - we have so much to be thankful for!  Having little Tyler arrive to complete our family has been such a special blessing.  We are really excited for a fun holiday season this year.  Thanksgiving kicked things off, and we started by spending the day at Grammy and Grandpa Brown's house.  We arrived before lunch and spent the day playing with toys, watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV (and the annual dog show!), and enjoying all the wonderful smells that came from the kitchen.  Mel, Aaron and Jackson arrived later that day and we had a lovely meal, complete with turkey, mashed potatoes, green beans, jello, etc.!  It was delicious.
The next day, we drove to Lafayette, IN for our second Thanksgiving meal at the Harding house.  Tracy and Steve are such great chefs and are very kind to host the Reder crew for the second year in a row.  We missed Grandma and Grandpa Reder of course, but we'll get to see them in a few short weeks at Christmas.  Meanwhile, we had a great turkey celebration with the Harding and Burkholder families!  We feasted on turkey, squash casserole, mashed potatoes, rice pudding, stuffing, etc.!  And of course plenty of pies for dessert.