Rewind: Thanksgiving 2010 Part II

Since mum and dad were here over Thanksgiving we had to take the chance to eat Turkey. We joined the Wingert's, Moore's and Brooksby's for a Thanksgiving gathering at Jerome and Jewly's. We ate fried turkey (a first) and lots of other yummy thanksgiving desserts. 

Sorry, no picture. I felt I should at least document the holiday for prosperity. 

Rewind: Thanksgiving 2010

For (USA) Thanksgiving this year mum and dad flew down for about 10 days. We spend majority of the time shopping (I think I went to every safe mall in the Memphis area), ate out at awesome restaurants (we all know I love a good meal out) and mum even convinced me to put up my Christmas trees.

I wasn't going to do put them up because I didn't have/afford the decorations I wanted, and didn't have the time to make the ones I thought would be good for just this year. Mum had to keep reminding me that whatever decorations we used this year did not have to be my "forever decorations", so finally off to Walmart we went and about $100 later we had my trees decorated.

Before they left they did all of our Christmas shopping so that we would have full trees leading up to Christmas and a full morning on Christmas. I never thought I'd see so many presents under our trees!!

Don't mind the blurry photo. All the photos I had with the lights on were not exactly clear....

Here we have all the presents!

Can I just say that putting up Christmas trees is such a pain! Fluffing all the branches, stringing all the lights. I'm too much of a perfectionist do handle that. If it wasn't for mum we wouldn't have had them this year :)

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I even got really ambitious and did my mantle.

Thanks for coming out guys! We always love it when you're here.

BBQ vs. Grill

Learned something new on Monday. In most parts of the country, one would say "I'm going to a BBQ" and to those who are listening it would imply that you will be eating steak, chicken, hamburgers etc. Something cooked on the BBQ. Fair enough assumption.

Not here.

BBQ in this fine state is a noun, not a verb, as I've been told. It implies you will be eating pulled pork, ribs etc. If you will be having chicken, steaks, hamburgers etc., you are having a "Grill Out".

So, on Monday night Scott and I went to the Wingert's for BBQ. Us, along with Jay and Courtney and April and Nick, had delicious pulled pork sandwiches, homemade coleslaw, potato salad, chips and lemon streusel bars. We chatted, the boys (and April) played Guitar hero and then we played a competitive round of Monopoly Cards.

It was a great way to spend Memorial Day and we enjoyed ourselves, as we always do when we get together with those couples.

*For those of you who are waiting, updates from my Edmonton trip will appear shortly*