Canadian Thanksgiving

I love my Canadian husband for many reasons. But on days like today I especially love him. Everyone loves Thanksgiving. I have yet to meet someone that doesn't. Being married to a Canadian has many perks. But there's one in particular that makes me happy. I get to celebrate Thanksgiving twice! Canada celebrates Thanksgiving just like Americans do as far as the food goes, it's just at an earlier time. Their Thanksgiving is on our Columbus Day. Thanks to a reminder on Sunday, I , with the help of many friends pulled a Thanksgiving dinner together for Jamie. It was so fun! I am a dork and wanted it to be a surprise for Jamie. I left a note on our door for Jamie telling him to go to a certain house and that's where his surprise would be. It all would have worked out except I forgot the drinks at my house and you can't have a Thanksgiving dinner without the grape juice drink! So on my way home to get the drinks I called Jamie to find out where he was. He said he was 'broken down' and that I needed to come and get him. Well, a few seconds later I spotted his car coming towards me. Surprise spoiled! Oh well. The food tasted the same regardless. It was all so yummy! Everyone that came contributed very delicious dishes! It was so much fun getting together! We even sung the Canadian National Anthem 'O Canada'. Now if that isn't straight up awesome I don't know what is.

This is the 'eating room' decorated in red and white. We got a good chuckle because Canadians don't decorate for Thanksgiving but for some reason we needed a reminder of why we were celebrating, or maybe we just wanted to blow up balloons and hang up streamers, ya that's it.

Our dessert corner. Mmmm all of them were soooooo good!

Waiting around for the turkey to be carved. We had two turkey's so it took a while to get both all cut up. Which by the way, I was really proud of myself. I cooked turkey all by myself, without any supervision! I am so excited to add cooking turkey's to my list of things I can do. I know that's silly but I was really nervous about cooking a turkey all alone! Thank goodness for phones!

Jamie and Ben carving away.

The spicy Spicers.

The party'n Peterson's

The laughing Leas's

The outstanding Ortiz's - minus Bella and Sebastian

The taffy Teryuga's (sorry I know I probably spelled that wrong)

The chill'n Chatterley's

For some reason I didn't get a picture of the host family. The paint'n Platt's. Sorry guys. Better luck next time. And again, thanks for opening up your home for the grand Canadian celebration.

After dinner the guys made their way to the living room to chat it up and the ladies started cleaning up the food. The kids thought that it would be fun to run around without their shirts. I had to get a picture of it. Here they are telling me to smell their pits. Good thing they haven't hit puberty yet or else I think it would be rather stinky.

Here Tyler and Cael are flying and Bentli is looking ever so cute in the background.

We had so much fun hanging out with our friends enjoying some turkey. We have truly been blessed with the friends that we have made here. We are one lucky family to have such great friends.