3rd Annual Family Compound Thanksgiving

We have had such a wonderful Thanksgiving break. There are so many things to be thankful for but mostly for being able to have so many family and friends around to help celebrate. On Thanksgiving we held our Annual Family Compound Thanksgiving and some how managed to increase the number of people from last year's 20 to 30 this year. And amazingly enough we were missing to very special people this year, my cousin Tyler who is away at college for the first year and good old Uncle Jon, who also is away at college. We missed you both!!

It was a beautiful day here and we had awesome food prepared by all who came. Because we were all having such a great time we didn't get many pictures. But here are a few to give you a feel of our Thanksgiving feast.

Enjoying a break from cooking


Rainbow Jello

Jamie's Norman Rockwell Turkey

The Boys Cooking


The Fest!

Then on Friday we decide to start a new tradition in our family. Remember our 12 dollar, 125lb pumpkin we bought for Halloween. Well with the Christmas decorations making their way out we need to say good bye to the pumpkin. We knew our goats would enjoy munching on it but how to get it down the hill to their pen?! For those who have been to our house they know the "hill" we are taking about, vertical straight drop. And thus we began:

The Annual Pumpkin RollThe kids helping Matt push it across the flat part of the driveway

Serafina's turn to push by herself.

Sam's turn to push by himself. This was the push that sent it down the hill.


And the pumpkin takes flight.

The pumpkin decides to go off roading.
(note my dad's car in the trees, yeah next year we will make sure no cars are parked at the bottom of the hill. At this point we realize Matt's and my car were down there too!! Luckily the cars were spared!)


The pumpkin in its final resting place. It hit a rock when it went off road which split it open. It also ran into our shed busting one side of the door. The thunk sound it made was wonderful, and luckily Matt managed to fix the door!

Matt moving it into the goat pen. It was still heavy even with part of it missing!

We are looking forward to next years pumpkin roll and learned a few lessons with this first one!! I am also hoping that Trevor and Jen decide to bring their big pumpkin over for use to roll down the goats. That way we can get a pumpkin roll on video!! YouTube baby!