Thanksgiving Fun

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year! Our friends from Idaho (now from Indiana), Jeff and Brielle, came to visit us. I believe that we had a lot of fun together. While here we played games, had Pie Fest, and did tile. There is nothing like making your visitors work:) I have attached a couple of pictures of the masterpieces. They tiled two of our entryways.



This one used to be green linoleum, so I would say that this is a great improvement.

We had a wonderful dinner. I will quote Brielle who said "this was the best Thanksgiving Dinner I've had" She might have been lying just to be a good guest, but I will just take credit for being an excellent cook(because it was ALL me of course)!

There was one funny thing that happened over the holiday. Everyone at our ward knows that Rick is hunting this year. We actually want the meat, he's not just going for sport. By Thanksgiving he had only gotten one deer. One of the members of the church called us the day after Thankgiving and told us that her son had gotten a deer and wanted to know if we wanted the meat. Of course we said yes. Rick also butchers the animals himself. So that evening Rick and my Dad were in the garage cutting the animal up. They had the garage open and were throwing any scraps to the dog outside. They had cut out the tenderloin (or sweat meat as they call it) and put it to the side to take upstairs. They then continued to cut up some other parts. While they were talking the dog snuck into the garage and took both tenderloins without them even noticing! They turned around and were astonished when the best cuts of the entire animal were now gone. We all had a good laugh. Cookie definately got a little bit fatter this Thanksgiving!

On Saturday it was the last day of rifle hunting so Rick decided to take Russell and Joey over to our friends house for one more chance at a deer. It was very funny. Russell and Joey both had to bring their own "guns" (BB guns). I had a picture, but I had forgot to put my card in the camera. Sorry. I figured that Rick didn't have a prayer at getting a deer because the boys would definately get a few shots off before Rick could. When they first got there they were getting out of the truck and there were some deer right there! How lucky can you get! The boys had off about eight shots before Rick could even get ready. Luckily they were far away enough that it did not frighten the deer away. Rick was succesful! The best part is that as he was going up to get the deer there was another one that they hadn't seen off to the side. Joey spotted it first and got a shot off. They were close enough that he actually hit it! It scared it off pretty fast. Joey was so proud! He made Rick and Russell come with him to track it and try to find it. Unfortunately they did not find it. But we are now up to our necks in venison and loving it!