Thanksgiving Day

For Thanksgiving Day we went to Ryan's parents house and had a delicious meal courtesy of Margaret's hard work (she brined the turkey for a day or two ahead of cooking it and it turned out amazing).Audrey loves to help whenever she can. She was put in charge of filling the vegetable appetizer tray with precut veggies. She was also in charge of making sure all the veggies were still good by taste testing them for us :).I think Audrey's favorite part was decorating sugar cookies. She helped me make them the day before and was extremely excited to decorate and eat them. Audrey wanted "traditional" blue frosting for the cookies. She also wanted to help mix it.
She concentrated very hard while she was decorating. She decorated a penguin and a present (my way of using the rest of the cookie dough without having to reroll is to cut squares/rectangles and call them presents).

After she finished decorating her two cookies, she was ready to eat them. We told her she could only eat one, so she picked the penguin which was much larger. She took one lick of the frosting and dropped the cookie frosting side down on the floor. So she ended up eating the present cookie very carefully.Genny, put her artistic talents to good use and basically frosted the rest of the sugar cookies, which were mostly ginger bread men.Ryan and Grandma Margaret being very cooperative for a Thanksgiving picture. :)

We also had a good game of ping-pong and watched "Get Smart" while Audrey took a much needed nap. A great Thanksgiving for all!