Family, friends, and food

Happy Thanksgiving! I hope your Thanksgiving was as great as ours. Family, friends, and wonderful food. Is there any thing better??? Jim & Janie arrived on Monday and Matt & Cara arrived Wednesday evening. We kept many of our usual Thanksgiving traditions and started some new ones. Thanksgiving day was fun as always. We really have the timing down as far as the cooking schedule goes now. It used to be a struggle to get everything in the oven in time to eat but now, we are golden. I think every year we forget the cranberry sauce and this year was no different. Thankfully, we remembered in time for the meal. :) Poor cranberry sauce. Always late to the party. I was so busy in the kitchen that I forgot the silverware and had to rush around at the last minute to finish setting the tables. I did snap a few pictures but managed to miss one of the tables and the all important turkey. Next year.

Cupcakes by Cara.

I missed out on these delicious cupcakes until after the post Thanksgiving meal movie. It's Thanksgiving tradition that we fit in as many movies as possible while the family is here... This year, our time was more limited so only two movies made the final cut - The Blind Side and Fantastic Mr. Fox. The Blind Side was the winner for our Thanksgiving night movie. Janie and I each voted twice for it. I love Sandra Bullock and I especially love sports movies. Football and Sandra Bullock. What else do you need? The movie was great. Now, I will have to read the book.

Back to the cupcakes. After we returned from the movie it was time for dessert. I opted for a cupcake. Let me tell you....these cupcakes are soooo good. I actually ate one for breakfast today. Shhh. If you were at our house on Thanksgiving and passed up the cupcakes, you missed out. Just sayin'.

Dining room.

I'm still bummed I didn't take more pictures. I didn't even get a picture of all the food or the other table. Guess I was a little distracted.

Friday was reserved for family time...we visited in the morning/early afternoon and then the family (except for me) went to the Houston Museum of Natural Science to see the Spirits & Headhunters: Vanishing Worlds of the Amazon exhibit. I think they were disappointed they didn't get to see more tsantsas (ceremonial shrunken heads). For being unemployed it sure felt like I worked a lot this Thanksgiving. I definitely missed out on a lot of family time. Jim & Janie took off Friday evening for the long haul back to KC. Matt, Cara, Jeremy, and I went out for our second movie - Fantastic Mr. Fox. It is Wes Anderson's first stop motion animated film. Very clever and entertaining. We had fun after the movie trying to name all the Wes Anderson movies we've seen. My favorite is Bottle Rocket. Matt & Cara left early this morning for their long haul back to KC and then Columbia.

The house is empty. The KU game doesn't start until 2:30 pm. What to do, what to do??? Leftovers, anyone?