Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!!!  Thanksgiving was held at our house again this year as tradition.  We enjoyed having 30 people in our home!  A lot of people = a lot of fun!  We had the entire Routsong family minus Nick and Carissa who are in Arizona, and Jared, who is serving a mission in Russia.  We had a wonderful meal contributed by all the families.  The kids begged for questions in their bread rolls again, so we spent some time talking about our favorites, our memories, and family thoughts.  We had at least one person actually eat the paper inside the roll, not knowing it was inside!  But as far as I know, paper will digest😄.  

After the feast, we took part in our Annual Pie Contest!  Everyone baked a pie to be in the contest, however we had a couple cheaters with a Sam Walton recipe and a Marie Calendar recipe lol.  I made a yummy sugar free peanut butter frozen pie.  We had a sugar cream pie and a pumpkin caramel pie as well.  No sugar in our pie = no win, but at least I didn't feel guilty eating as much as I wanted!  The winner of the pie contest was an appropriate win, The mother of the whole bunch!  She was determined, too!  Great job, Linda!!

The families each planned a Disney themed skit of some kind to perform.  We had some acts from Frozen, Tarzan, Snow White and even Disney trivia.  Mom and Dad Routsong created a Snow White skit using 7 grandkids dwarfs.  Then out appeared the Prince to save Snow White from her deep sleep from eating a wysap apple, Grandpa dressed in his Superman suit!  It was great!!

Following the skits we played a few family games and then everyone broke up and mingled and the kids played together. Some went to the movies, others just enjoyed each other's company all evening.  What a fun day!