Thanksgiving

I know this is a couple of weeks late - oh well.  We hosted our first Thanksgiving.  All of my family traveled from New Mexico, Utah and Idaho to spend Thanksgiving, that being said we celebrated on Friday instead of Thursday.

I really loved being able to use our fancy place mats and napkins.  They were a wedding gift that we have saved for special occasions.  David and I spent some time the week before making our napkin holders from toilet paper tubes.  We had so much fun making the napkin rings and setting the table.  I thought it all looked so nice.  The deep cranberry mats and napkins with the white plates (alternating square and round) and the blue water glasses.  I loved it!

We also brought out our champagne flutes for the sparking juice we had.  David immediately wanted to do toasts and we couldn't get everyone to the table fast enough.  We toasted multiple times throughout our dinner.

Our meal consisted of the usual suspects - turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole, roles, cranberry sauce, and pies (pumpkin & apple).  Everyone worked together to get it all together and I'm glad because I don't bend over so well these days.  My favorite part was watching my parents do the dishes.

Since we celebrated on Friday we got the kitchen all cleaned up and we headed up to Estes Park for their  Light Parade.  This is a picture of David waving while sitting in Aunt Ashley's lap.  The parade was so fun to watch - especially with hot chocolate and cookies!  After finishing with the parade heading down the mountain back to Fort Collins we enjoyed our pies and began our 2nd Annual Benson Wii-lypmic games.

Apparently we only got pictures of two events on our camera.  We did ski jumping, boxing, cow racing, shooting, and tennis.  Cow racing is always the funniest event to watch because my mom is hilarious when playing the game.  The medals were better distributed this year compared to last but 3 of us didn't medal at all.  We all decided that we like having more days to play our wii-lympic games to practice do preliminaries and then the actual competitions.  Our opening ceremonies were fun and our medal ceremonies were fun too.