i love food
i love my family
i love shopping

That's what is so great about thanksgiving, you combined both of them together and bam! good times! the shopping part usually comes in when the girls are feeling restless and we're ready to find a good deal, like 4:30 pm this thursday.

i'm making the rolls for thanksgiving. i have a recipe that i received from caroline boster when i was a laurel in church, mannnnnny years ago! it's a simple recipe, but it makes me think of nyssa, oregon and all the wonderful people who shaped my blessed life.

i bought a turkey at win-co, and he is a beast all 14.7 lbs of him. but he was only $6.48. how could i turn that down? i couldn't even fit it in my side by side freezer, what was i thinking! thank goodness for my good friend melissa. she is the only person i know who has only 2 things in her outside freezer. my mom had two extra freezer's growing up. the one in the hallway always had a 5 gallon bucket of schwan's ice cream in it.... yummy! what a treat after working in the fields weeding or a hot day jumping on the trampoline.

so back to the turkey, my mom is going to cook the beast up and we will all be full of turkey for 3 more weeks.

Happy Thanksgiving, happy family, happy food, and happy shopping!