Thanksgiving on Saturday

Living here in the Farm Drive area we have obviously been doing a lot of different activities with the kids from the hood. Patty and I wanted to do something to involve the adults for once. So we came up with the idea of having some families over for a Thanksgiving meal. On Saturday we cooked up a bunch of traditional Thanksgiving food and had a few of our friends come over and help. Below was a team effort; peeling potatoes. The guy with the glasses is Ruben who cooked us 2 deep fried turkeys! They were delicious! Thank you Ruben!

We had orginally invited 3 families to join us and as the day went on and some of them could not make it, we just started inviting kids and told them to go home and invite their parents, siblings, basically whoever lives with them.

Below we are giving thanks (not everyone is in the picture...we had 46!) for the food we had to share with our neighborhood friends!


We had a buffet table set up in one of the downstairs rooms and used all 3 ovens/stoves at our disposal to cook a turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, corn, and rolls. Pretty nice having 3 complete kitchens! It would have been hard to do that out of one place with one stove! We ate outside on the tables.

We fed over 45 people! It was awesome time but a lot of hard work. One of the kids moms said she was very thankful for the meal and she had never had a meal like this in any neighborhood. This was very strange for her, sharing a meal together. Here's Patty and Cece enjoying some of Ruben's delicious chicken.