"T" is for Turkey

This month we have tried to be festive for the season with our preschool activities.  

One week we made headdresses.  

Kimball and Rebecah wearing their headdresses.  This is Rebecah's typical smile these days for pictures.

 We also made some Harvest decorations since we didn't put up our harvest tree this year.  

Leaf Garland

Give Thanks banner

 One week we focused on the letter "t" and we made two different types of turkeys.

I thought the turkeys made out of leaves were cute until the leaves dried and the leaves started to crumble all over the carpet!  I was glad we could find colorful leaves around our apartment complex.

For Thanksgiving, Joseph had to work 3 hours in the morning and then in the afternoon we had dinner with 3 other families from church.  Our kids enjoyed playing with other children and we all enjoyed being out of our small apartment, although we are grateful that we have a place to live.

Wearing my new apron a friend in Russellville sent me.  It arrived the day before Thanksgiving.  Thanks, Eva!!

Picture break during our Friday Thanksgiving feast.  

Joseph worked the day after Thanksgiving too, but we had our own Thanksgiving dinner made with the foods and flavors that we are used to having.  We are looking forward to a lot of turkey leftovers since our turkey was almost 22 lbs.  

We also made a lot of pumpkin foods this month and we broke with tradition and we had our cranberries and pie early.  Joseph was commenting that we eat Christmas treats all month in December, but in November we just have one glorious day to eat our fill of the Thanksgiving food so I gave in and we had our cranberry salad and pie early...With 3 different desserts for our small family meant we weren't exactly suffering from a lack of sweets.  We had a caramel pecan pie, pumpkin cake, an apple crisp.  For my family-- don't worry, I haven't changed...I still don't like baked apples and I didn't partake of the apple crisp. Joseph requested it so I made it for him.  Joseph said the apple crisp was excellent though and now wants it as a permanent part of our Thanksgiving menu.