Thanksgiving Break

This year we decided to stay home in Billings for the Thanksgiving break. With Josh's travel schedule to and from North Dakota all the time, it was nice to skip the 20+ hour drive to Kansas and just be home with our family. We shopped, we went to the movies, we decorated, picked out a tree, and we played in the snow.

AND we had some turkey.

 

This year our good friends the Ashdowns invited us over. They go to our church, and Gregg is also Josh's boss at COP. Being in the oilfield we've crossed paths a few times, once in Midland when I was still in school.

 

Josh's only condition on accepting the invite was that he got to bring the turkey. So Wednesday night he began his ritual of concocting the perfect turkey brine for an overnight soak, then getting up early to put the bird in the smoker for the day. It was delicious.

We made some pies and jello (yes, even the green jello), and the kids decorated sugar cookies. Robin had 3 grandkids in town for the holiday, and they all had a lot of fun together.

 The kids then spent the rest of the afternoon outside sledding down the hill and burning off all those calories...while the adults sunk onto the couch watching football, fighting the urge to doze off into a long winter's nap :)