Thanksgiving Day 2007

Well, yesterday was T-day with a bunch of Butler relatives and cousins. The Rusty Butler clan clearly dominated the event with only about half of their kids showing up. Rusty and Danielle were there as were Erin and Darya, Valerie and York, and Tareq and Wendy including us of course. A few of Aunt Annie’s kids came with their cousins. Paul and Sacha were there as were Eliza and her husband (whose name I can’t remember). Paul is currently looking for work as he was let go from his job at Circlepix, an online real estate services company. We also invited some neighbor friends of ours, Bob and Sherrie Ritchie. I think we were both glad they came.

Most of the day is a big blur, not a bad one though. The morning started early with all of the meal preparations. I was in charge of cooking the turkey, the mashed potatoes, the cranberry relish and the pretzel jello salad. It was a bit frenetic but I got it all done except for the pretzel jello salad whose recipe I managed to misplace just at the wrong time. I had created the crunchy pretzel bottom layer and lost the recipe before finishing. Just before we were to leave, Darya found it, but by then it was too late. Oh well, we’ll just enjoy it today. At the get-together someone else had made it. I tried it, but was sorely disappointed as it tasted really bad. I can’t imagine how you could screw up that recipe, but someone sure did.

The big get-together was at 1pm which is rather early for our tastes. That is why the morning was so frenetic. We got together at a church over by Marianne’s place. It was a much more enjoyable time than I anticipated. It wasn’t exactly relaxing but was good to see everyone there. The kids had a great time playing tag and basketball in the gym. The highlight of course was the campy talent show in which my Jessop kids played their various instruments. Katy on Bass and Lizzy on her guitar played What Child Is This with Taylor who sang. Alex played Long Long Ago on his violin. Ross and Mackay did a silly rap skit to some song called the Mormon “MacDaddy” Rap. I will post pics when I pull them out of my camera.

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Post-Party the older kids got together at Grandpas for Games. All in all it was a good, busy day.