Thanksgiving Fun!

Our Thanksgiving was wonderful. Thank you for asking. Warren, Mom, and Dudo came up from Colorado. We had so much fun with them and the time went by way too fast. Cedrik loved each of them and it was really fun because he's finally opening up to other people! He is about 18lbs now. He's smiling and laughing to make us smile and laugh and he has a fake cough. He'll fake cough to make Jordan fake cough back at him. He thinks it's hilarious. He's also found his little girl scream. It makes for a wonderful alarm...NOT! We're hoping it passes soon and he'll get back to his usual morning routine of lying in bed with us till we fully wake up. Ok...back to Thanksgiving, I'll post another Cedrik post soon. I'll let the pictures tell the story:

Waiting for the turkey to be done.

For some reason the pictures make the turkey look a little burned. It wasn't burned at all! Perfectly Perfect! 

Cornbread stuffing with Shittake mushrooms, bacon, and sage.

So, although you can see a can of cranberry sauce, that was just the back-up. I made homemade sauce and it was really good and simple! I don't even like cranberry sauce and I ate some. Actually most of us don't like cranberry sauce, but we all agreed it was great! We had a honey baked ham, turkey, stuffing, mashed and sweet potatoes, green beans and rolls. It was all delicious and I was proud of my first Thanksgiving meal!

Like the table cloth? It's one of a kind; I made it! Jordan calls this picture the redneck Thanksgiving: Coke, pickles olives and beans.

Mid-bite picture.

He had a tiny bit of sweet potatoes and mashed potatoes. Mmmm.

Tryptophan #1 (Meet Piper)

Tryptophan #2

On Friday we went Christmas shopping. We got out early enough that the crowds weren't too bad.

Cedrik got a cute hat for church.

And a cute Russian hat.

On Saturday we went up to Idaho City and cut down a Christmas tree. Mom stayed in the car with Cedrik. Warren was going to come up with us, but after he realized the snow was to his knees (my mid-thighs) he decided to wait at the road with Piper. Jordan and I walked up a hill, then down and found a cute tree. It looks just like last years tree! It was fun, we were very cold and Jordan had snow down his shoes. Porter Family Christmas Tree Tradition lives on for another year!

I fell a few times.

Decorating for Christmas. I'm a star.

Cute tree. It's a couple inches shorter than last year, but hey, it's hard to judge how tall the tree is when you're freezing and want to get back to warmth!