Thanksgiving... The end :)

Okay sports fans, it is about 10pm here in Phoenix. The weather has cooled back down to a brisk 65 degrees and Thanksgiving is coming to an end.

After dinner we all sat our full bodies down and watched the stop motion version of Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer. This is a holiday classic that many of us loved and others of us had never seen... but after all of that food, sitting down to watch a movie really just made us sleepy. So that could only mean one thing... time for pie obviously!

We had three yummy pies. Becca made a pumpkin pie and an apple pie, and I made a chocolate pie.


After pie it was time for Martinelli's sparkling apple cider (I LOVE this stuff!!!)

Then the realization set in that it was time to clean...

We split up the food and sent Becca, Bernie, and Bernie's friend home with as much ham as we could because goodness knows Josh can't eat 5lbs of ham on his own ;)

Then we packed up the leftovers and, most importantly, we packed up the dishwasher! We always used to do dishes by hand, but a mess like this definitely calls for a professional (not that Josh is not a pro at washing dishes :) )


Now, the kitchen is clean and Josh and I are sitting on our couch, bellies full, listening to the hum of the dishwasher. I would have to say that this Thanksgiving was a complete success!

We did miss many of our family members, but working on this blog really helped us feel like we were able to keep in touch! Thank you to everyone who followed us this Thanksgiving and to all of the wonderful people, near and far, that we got to spend this holiday with! We hope your Thanksgivings were as wonderful as ours!

Love,
Josh and Kelley

Dinner!

We had SOOOO much fun at Grammy and Grandfather's house!

We got home around 4:30 and rushed to get everything together. Then everyone got here and it was time to eat! He is how it all went:

First the Stuffing!
Here are the mushrooms.


Then add in the bread!

All ready to go in the oven!
Becca got me these cool slippers for my birthday!

Becca brought some brussel sprouts :)

She forgot the fruit salad she made and the grocery stores were closed, but Walgreens was open so we got the stuff to make some!

Bernie is so strong lol he opened the olives for us!

We had a lot of food!

Here is us eating...


And here is us full of food...


YYYuuuummmm! It was soooo good!

More pictures of the rest of the night later :)

More to come...

Okay mom, I know you are following this. Don't worry, we will be posting soon! We are eating FINALLY!!!!

Posts coming soon!

-Kelley

Farmer/Bates time!

We are now on to our first Thanksgiving of the day!

We are at Grammy and Grandfather's house with the Arizona Farmers and Beth (a wonderful new addition to the family)

Lots of yummy food and drinks and wonderful friends and family! We have missed spending time with all of these people, so this is great! Here are some pictures:

Yummy food by Jessica Farmer

Yummy Cheesy goodness!

The whole Gang (in two groups) with the Arizona sun in our faces.

Beautiful Beth

Cindi Lu

We love you Stephanie! Oh yes we do

Maddy
Abby Drinking the Dew

Jessica!

That's it for now! More to come later!

-Kelley

Thanksgiving with our Family (And anyone else who would like to follow along)

Thanksgiving = family

Always has, always will. Thanksgiving is a time when all of us are supposed to remember and think about everything we are thankful for. Often times, as is the case with us, we find that we are most thankful for the family God has given us.

Well Josh and I live about 1,500 miles away from our families (thankfully we do have some family here is Phoenix *Love you Farmers and Weiss sisters!). Some are in Washington state and some are in Missouri and Kentucky. Either way, they are not here with us in Phoenix, and around holidays like Thanksgiving is when we really start to miss them the most!

So we are 1,500 miles away from our families, so what! This is the age of technology, and distance is no problem for technology!

We decided that we are going to have Thanksgiving with our families right here on this blog! We are going to post pictures and short posts on what is going on during the day so that our families can share Thanksgiving with us! We love you guys and we hope you will leave comments on our posts and let us know how your Thanksgivings are going as well! We want to spend Thanksgiving with you, no matter how far away we all may be.


So here goes!

For those of you who are not used to late November in Arizona... this is what it looks like in our backyard right now! Yup, a freezing 74 degrees! Better put on a sweater!

Here is how the morning started off. Josh and I got up around 8:30 to start the cooking. First up: Ham!

This baby has been sitting in our fridge soaking up sugar water for the last few days. It better be good, Josh will have to tell you how it turns out since I don't eat meat :) We will be cooking it and pouring juice and sugar over it for about 7 hours :)

Next up: Stuffing!



MMMmm! I love this stuff! It takes a while because we have to toast the sourdough bread and make the veggie broth, but it is going to be worth it! Here is some of the toasted bread and the veggie broth cooking! yyuumm!


We ran into one little problem, the ham has to cook at 200 degrees and it takes 350 degrees to toast the bread... sooo toaster! Which made it a little darker than Josh would like... but I love dark toast!

Well that's it for now. Thanks for having Thanksgiving with us! We will be posting again soon, until then leave a comment and tell us how your Thanksgiving is going!

Love,
Josh and Kelley