How was your Thanksgiving? Ours was AWESOME!! Families and friends and great food! We had our friends, Zach and Jolynn Frasers from Walla Walla come and visited us and my sister Thanh came also. We brined our turkey the night before and then spent all day making an 8 course meal. Our turkey was AMAZINGLY MOIST because it was cooked BREAST DOWN! I used the roaster I recently purchased this year so that we can use the oven to bake and have freshly baked everything. We spent a lot of quality time together shopping, making bread, cookies, and lots of yummy food. My friends gave me more compliments on my cooking than I deserved.
One of the best parts of the holiday was going to see NEW MOON with my sis and Jo (ahh Jacob!) IT WAS SO AWESOME! I want to see it again. I won't say more about this but you get the idea - the guys. After the movie we all went to the all too famous and the last USA XXX Root beer here in Issaquah, which we have to take Nama and Papa there when they come up for Christmas. The place was way cool but too crowded. The weather was clear so we went to the beach and to a park in Magnolia for some beautiful sight seeing. My sis is convinced that she wants to live here later. She got to play a lot with Reena and see her at dance class (stay tuned for more) and shopped at Pike Place Market, which she consistently asked why I didn't take her there sooner to give her more time :) And there you have it. Our wondrous and blissful Thanksgiving.
Apple pie! I braided the dough this time.
I was ready, so ready to eat but everyone kept taking pictures of us.
Somehow Dan still had the energy to play games with the kids. He is such a wonderful daddy. We all had a lot of fun.
We ended the vacation with some homemade Pho that Zach requested and my sis showed off her Viet cooking.
Lately we've been waking up to bright sunny sky. The next 8 days is sunny. It makes me so grateful for this beautiful weather.
Fall is great here. The leaves are still yellow and red and orange and purple and green and you get the point. We love it. We still see flowers like these blooming and it's December!
This website is pretty cool. Just thought I'd pass this along to you Seattle folks.
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We should have come there for Thanksgiving - we were drooling just looking at it. We are so happy you had a great Thanksgiving and most of all for the pictures. Those little girls are so beautiful and growing up so fast. Thank you again for your 'selfish ' desire to fly us there for a visit. We are still checking for a date. Probably end of April or in May. We will let you know really soon. We love you all so much. Grandma
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