Day: November 26, 2008

They’re here!  Christian and I are looking forward to a nice long weekend of cooking!  Grandpa brought Sunset magazine with him, and our Thanksgiving plans have been somewhat changed:

Wine smoked turkey (instead of the regular, butter smothered, roast turkey)
Italian Chard Stuffing
Cornbread Chorizo dressing (aka: stuffing)
Grandpa’s version of Sweet Potatoes

Then all the other normal stuff like rolls and salad.  Grandpa is also planing on making bananas foster, a very fancy dessert.  We won’t make it for Thanksgiving, but we will make it sometime this week.  Mom took us to CostCo yesterday and we got 2 pumpkin pies, an apple pie, and a key lime pie so we’re pretty much all set for Thanksgiving dessert! I’m so excited! 

Right now we are getting ready to go to Christian’s guitar lesson so I have to go.  Sorry this is so short, but I will have many stories in detail soon!!!

I picked up Grandpa Milo and Grandma Sarah yesterday evening right on schedule.  Lorena had stew and a nice salad waiting for us when we got home.  We are awful glad to have them here.  We have decided that we are going to divide the cooking up into three events.  Tomorrow, we are going to make a traditional Thanksgiving meal with turkey, mashed potatoes, dressing, black olives, etc.  Lester, Esther, and their family will come over tomorrow evening for dessert so the Finnish ladies can meet each other.  Then, one evening, Grandpa Milo will make a gourmet meal that he will teach to Kelly and Christian.  Finally, we will cook a second turkey on the grill on Saturday just to see if we can do it.  We have a really small grill, so we are not so sure how it will turn out.

Christian, Grandpa Milo, Grandma Sarah, and Kelly

Grandpa Milo is going to help us plan our yard.  We want to do something next summer that is not too expensive, but that will be fun when we entertain.  Grandpa Milo has some ideas on a fire pit.  I think that sounds great.  Maybe we can run down to Home Depot to look at materials so we can know what we need to buy when we get started.