Hahahaha don't laugh - this is the best I could do this year......the centrepiece for our Thanksgiving table! Most of my kitchen is now packed away - all of my basement is in storage now so I can't access anything really and it is mayhem with the renovations. We were out all day today and came home in time to make our dinner - so I bought some mini pumpkins and put them on a gold charger plate like this and TA-DA!!!!! ;) Martha I am NOT :) but it looked Autumny :) And the children always like a candle so we at least had a tea light!
We've had a lovely day! We decided at the last minute to take a run up to the Prairie Gardens at Bon Accord - we figure this will probably be the last weekend that we'll have a chance to go and we promised the children we'd go this year. It was busy there but the only long line up was to get in! Once you're in it never seems as busy for some reason!
We had a great time. The weather wasn't great - it drizzled for a while but many of the activities were indoors so we still had a fantastic time :) Laurence and Susie loved firing the pumpkin cannon and trying to hit the pirate ship. I laughed out loud at the Ambrosia Museum, Abigail was TERRIFIED at the haunted house but soon forgot it and enjoyed the ball bales and the bale jumps as well as feeding the goats corn. Her favourite thing was the corn maze though and also making the scarecrow!! Sam loved the bale maze and the Enchanted Forest!
I loved the pumpkins and being able to take lots of pictures! We didn't take my big Nikon though so all the pictures are with Susies little point and shoot!
We came home and Lloyd and I made a big roast dinner complete with yorkshire puddings, which we've just eaten! That was so much fun - Chris was videoing the meal because he said Susannah ALWAYS does something hilarious every year (like one year she did this thing about putting a glass of pop to her eye because it hurts - so she then did it again to see if it still hurt!!! Like WHY???? Anyway he filed for ages then gave up and JUST after he switched off, Susannah burped this ENORMOUS burp just like a MAN!!! Of course we were all horrified but we couldn't stop laughing because it happened JUST after Chris had stopped filming!!!
So I'm sat here with my glass of wine, sorting through todays pictures and when we're all ready I am going to get the creme brulee ready. Lloyds favourite. I'm not keen so I will have a slice of pumpkin pie instead! The children are all showered and bathed ready for school and they made all their school lunches before dinner. Hopefully we will be in bed curled up by 9pm to watch the new series of Little People Big World!
I hope whatever you did and wherever you and whoever you are with, you had a wonderful Thanksgiving day 2008!
