Thanksgiving festivities

Arnold Palmer Children's Hospital was a little

unforgiving this year and scheduled Jake to work all 

day on Thanksgiving, plus all night. 

So we celebrated Thanksgiving in other ways.

Thanksgiving decorations from my mom, including fall leaves from Utah!

On Monday, we had the missionaries over with a new convert
and her family to teach them about
Family Home Evening.

After the lesson and a fun game, we made
turkeys out of junk food.

The kids thought that was pretty great!

Me with the missionaries and some of the Haitian members in our ward.

Proud of our little turkey creations.

On Saturday, Jake and I had a "re-do" Thanksgiving,
with all the trimmings.  I got a bunch of recipes from my
mother and grandmother, and spent the whole day cooking. 

I must say that things turned out pretty tasty!

The only glitch was that my stuffing turned out more like
croutons (I didn't know it needed to be covered in the oven),
but luckily we had a spare box of StoveTop in the pantry,

so we whipped that up at the last minute.

We did our turkey breast in the crockpot, and it was delicious.

The spread, compliments of two hands, one crockpot, and a very busy oven.

Jake with his feast (note the cranberry sauce that is still in the shape of the can).

 Because of the excess amounts of food, 

 we had the missionaries join us, which was nice
(although not pictured).

So despite the crazy work schedule,
our first Thanksgiving was still pretty great.