Happy Thanksgiving!

I was so nervous about the turkey!  So we ate Thanksgiving dinner a day early!  Nels's work gave us a 19 lb turkey.  We followed a recipe from Our Best Bites.  We used a turkey bag and injected flavor into the turkey and put herbs under the skin.  It took about 2.5 hours to cook.  

Nels rocked the turkey.  He even made it dance.  haha.  The kids kind of laughed.  

After all of our hard work, the turkey turned out pretty good!

We made mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans with bacon and mushrooms, rolls and fruit.

The kids helped me make a brownie mint ice cream dessert.  Nels and I ate alone around 3 pm because the babies were napping.  Then we fed the kids and ate dessert together.  Besides making an awesome dinner, we just relaxed and watched lots of TV--Star Wars and some other shows.  It was nice to take it easy.

We also made this gratitude tree with 104 leaves.

They made turkey hats in kindergarten.

Sofie and Noah loved taping the leaves onto the tree.

Kira and Isak wrote some of them by themselves.  No repeats!  Each one was different.  It was a lot of fun to do this together.

Here's Isak enjoying the dessert.

And here's Isak with his missing tooth! He lost it a few days after his birthday...Nov. 14th.  We noticed a tooth already growing behind his tooth.  Then his tooth was wiggly.  He was eating a corn dog at lunch and bit down on it weird.  It started to bleed and was super wiggle.  So I pulled it out!  Pretty exciting.  He was happy.  He went to school and showed everyone.  That night Astrid, the tooth fairy, put a note and $1 under his pillow.  He was pretty excited!!

Noah with the dessert.

The wish bone...They broke the wish bone and Kira got the bigger half.  Isak was sooooo sad that his wish wouldn't be coming true.  Oh dear...Obviously this picture is before the crying.

So on Thanksgiving day, Nels made pancakes.  Then we raked the leaves as a family.  It was great to work together as a family.  And the big kids were actually pretty helpful.

We made a big pile and let them play in it before we bagged it up.

The day after Thanksgiving, we took the kids to McDonalds for lunch.

Noah was pretty happy!

Us girls...

All together...

The kids played and played on the indoor playground.  Then after naps we went to the library.  It was fun to do things just for the kids.

And that was our Thanksgiving holiday!