Our original plans were to go camping and create a Dutch Oven Thanksgiving Dinner. Due to several coughs, sore throats, and lost voices we decided that it would be best to stay indoors. However, because we had already planned some of our dutch oven dishes, we decided to go ahead and cook part of our Thanksgiving dinner in the dutch ovens at the house. This lead to a friendly competition between Scott and Chelsea who decided to have a turkey cook off. Chelsea cooked her turkey in a conventional oven and Scott used a dutch oven over coals. I thought both were great, along with all the other wonderful things we ate!
Happy Hokie Day!
(It's complicated but a Hokie is a turkey)
(It's complicated but a Hokie is a turkey)
Our lovely table setting for our Thanksgiving feast.
The men hard at work to prepare the dutch oven dishes.
The goodness cooking.
Scott is ready to carve the turkey.
We went for an afternoon hike at Occoneechee Mountain. The weather was perfect.
Our view from the top.
We took a small break & the girls decided to play Down By The Banks.
Following the Leader.
Paul made an attempt to fish the Eno River with no luck.
Chelsea's and I spent some craft time making origami star ornaments.
The instructions claim this to be "an excellent folded star which can be made by children of great aptitude as well as the bedridden invalid of full mind". In other words this is really hard and takes a lot of patience.
After some serious thinking and a few wrong folds we were successful.
We had a wonderful weekend with the Scott Dyreng family. We always enjoy our time with them.
And we are looking forward to spending Christmas in Virginia with my parents and little brother Tyler!
Happy Holidays!
Glad you had such a nice Tday even though you were sick. This is kind of random, but what little I can see of your sister-in-law's house, I love. Looks like she has really good taste!
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful! When did you take this photos? I never noticed you taking photos. Thank you for not posting any photos of wonderful pregnant me. :) I am grateful. I need to get my photos up from our dinner but I was having some technical problems with blogger. should be up soon though. That was so fun! And your little ornaments look great. I really enjoyed doing that with you, and I am so glad you figured out how to make them.
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