Thanksgiving

The Thanksgiving festivities started on Tuesday evening with the arrival of the Onesto's. As soon as they arrived we headed out to grab some dinner. After dinner we all relaxed knowing that we had a lot of cooking ahead of us. Wednesday, Chad headed off to work while Lauren and her mom hit the gym. After the gym Lauren and her mom picked us some last minute ingredients before they headed home to start cooking. While Lauren and her mom were out, Fed Ex delivered their fresh turkey courtesy of the Estevez family!! Wednesday was filled with lots of cooking as Lauren and her mom worked on getting the stuffing, mashed potatoes and sweet potato casserole ready. Once Chad got home from work he was busy preparing his apple pie. The picture below is of Chad sporting one of our new aprons which were a gift from his parents.

The Holzer's arrived late Wednesday evening/early Thursday morning after being delayed in Newark. Thursday was filled with lots of food starting off with fresh pastries from Cafe Zinc and fresh orange juice courtesy of Chad's mom. Despite Chad's teasing that the Macy's Thanksgiving parade would not be televised in Midland everyone was able to enjoy the balloons, rockettes, and Santa Clause!!! After 6 hours of cooking the turkey, at 5PM we finally sat down to a wonderful meal. As you can see in the picture....everything looked great in our new dining room!! Dessert featured two of Chad's yummy creations, an apple crumb pie and gingerbread pumpkin trifle. Both we amazing!! Good job hunny!! The evening ended with some Wii bowling.

Big thanks go out to both of our families for traveling so far to spend the holiday with us!!