Thanksgiving 2010: part 1

Okay, so I cheated a little by making 2 parts to this Thanksgiving post.  Can I tell you how much more work editing pictures with people in them is compared to the photos without them?  In this post I am showing you the "easy" edits without people.  Which are basically pictures I took before anyone got here, just me having some fun with my camera.  Hopefully I'll get the important pictures ready soon so I am not posting about Thanksgiving on Christmas!

As I briefly mentioned we had the big dinner at our house this year.  It was fun getting this ready.  I had a lot of help from my wonderful husband and my mom and sisters (Thank you, thank you, thank you ladies).  And of course my children, who did their best not to mess everything up as we cleaned.

We had two tables, because there were 18 people!!  Although our big dining room table (the one with the turkey and pilgrims for decorations)  ended up with some empty seats, not everyone was able to come.  It was kinda funny, the big table with too few people and the smallish extra set up table had 8 adults crammed onto it.  No, I didn't get a picture.  I was too busy eating to pull my camera out.  All of the food was wonderful and abundant.  We had 4 turkeys!!  My family is big into left overs.  I didn't make any of the amazing food you see pictured here.  I did, however, contribute to the feast with sweet potato casserole and squash casserole and well as some appetizers to keep hunger at bay while waiting for everyone to show up.