New Thanksgiving Traditions?

This Thanksgiving we did a few new things that we haven't done before. To start with, the kids wanted to run in the Turkey Trot run so we started our morning heading to Miller Park to run/walk it as a family.

Turkey Trot

Summer & Mason cuddled under a blanket to stay warm. Summer is purposely not smiling for me. She really was in a good mood. Really.

Sean ran with Noah because Noah didn't want to walk much. They finished in a little over 30 minutes (we were at the very back of the pack so after taking around 30 seconds off, that's my guess).

I stayed behind with Madison and pushed Summer & Mason in the burley. Wow, it took a lot inside of me to keep patient. Madison wasn't really in the mood to run so she liked walking a lot AND whining a lot! We strolled in at around 40 minutes :(  But at least she came out and did it. I'm sure next year I'll be telling a different story.

The Clarks sporting their Pumpkin Dash shirts!

The kids holding their participation ribbons.

Thanksgiving Dinner

Sean and I made a snack for the kids when we got back and got moving on making our Thanksgiving dinner. He was in charge of turkey (which was already in the oven), homemade gravy and the homemade cranberry sauce (which was done the night before). I was in charge of homemade dressing, mashed potatoes, green been casserole and corn casserole. The pumpkin pie was made the night before. It was all so very yummy!

Upper left: Madison and I picked out paper plates this year to save the energy of doing so many dishes :) They had the perfect verse on them.

Lower left: Our table set including our fine crystal. Yes, we are nuts for letting the kids use it, but they LOVED it!

Upper right: Madison made name cards for all of us. She does this every year for us, but does something a little different each time.

Lower right: Sean getting ready to carve the turkey at the table. And no, the kids don't have wine. They have what they call "fake wine" which as everyone knows is actually sparkling juice in a wine bottle.

Evening Activities

We usually end the day by watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. We started to watch part of it, but the older kids were anxious to play Risk with Sean so they started that game half way through the movie.

Conclusion

I believe that we will keep the tradition of doing the Turkey Trot on Thanksgiving morning and Sean may keep making his homemade cranberry sauce. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving day as a family and need to remember to always count our blessings!!!