Our week-end was just perfect. We drove up to Tawas in two trucks loaded with Thanksgiving fixings, games and the kids! The 'boys' went in one truck and the 'girls' in another. The traffic and weather was horrific but our excitement for the week-end made the drive fun. I'm not sure how we did things before cell phones but by communicating back and forth with each other we were able to take back roads and avoided most of the traffic. One of those phone calls was also to inform Jim that the turkey Kim had gotten for us was not thawed yet and Jim's plans to brine it was going to be tricky!
Thursday morning we woke up to a beautiful dusting of snow on the beach. We (okay, mostly just me) watched the Detroit Thanksgiving Day Parade with doughnuts and cocoa while Kim made us homemade pancakes.
The rest of the day we spent mostly in various forms of sweats and pajamas; talking and playing games with the kids, while Jim slaved away in the kitchen on his finally thawed turkey! Kim and I took care of the rest of the side dishes and Grace helped set the beautiful table. It was a perfect Thanksgiving!
Friday we went into downtown Tawas and did a little shopping. I just love all the little shops, I picked up some pretty soaps, flavored coffee and a Tawas mug! We hit the famous chocolate shop and the baby clothing store. Hope got a new bikini on clearance... Pink and white stripe with an embroidered ducky and ladybug. 2T & too cute.
While we were in town, Cliff had a venison roast cooking in a crock pot. When we got back it was done and I had my first taste of venison for lunch. He had cooked it in apple cider, so it was sweet and I found the texture to be exactly like pot roast. I was very surprised.... I liked it!
That night we went back into town and went to the Tawas Thanksgiving Parade. It consisted of about 6 - 8 floats all lit up with lights and Santa! Then everyone went over near the pier for tree-lighting, caroling, cocoa and cookies. It was very cute and the kids had a ball. However, no one was brave enough to sit on Santa's lap!! When we went back across the street and wandered the stores we found that one store was offering free face painting and was making 'God's Eyes'. We spent about an hour warming up in there!
During the week-end we decided to have the kids each pick a recipe to cook. Saturday morning Grace made her french toast! She was great at cracking the eggs! Later, the boys went fishing and came back with 'smoked' salmon! For dinner Chris cooked his Prehistoric Chicken Parmesan (Used chicken nugget dinosaurs) and then we piled into the suburban to hit the Tawas Theatre to see "Enchanted"! Very cute movie!
That night we played a few games with the kids, Apples to Apples and Uno Attack were the big hits and then just the grown-ups played a game of 80's Trivial Pursuit! I'm not sure what we were doing in the 80's but it sure wasn't keeping up with the news!! This game lasted a while... but Kim and Cliff wiped us out!
Sunday morning Noah got to make his Cinnamon Pretzels for breakfast! Yum. Then regrettably we had to pack up and head home. It was such a great week-end, focusing on family.
Kim, Cliff, Noah & Grace - We love you! Thank-you!
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