Thanksgiving Dinner

Dessert this year included pilgrim hats.

Dinner at Grandma Schenk's

Eric is excited to be diggin in to dinner.
Keith is a little surprised at how many people can fit
around this table.

Carson passing the rolls and getting out of the picture.

Pass those potoatoes please!

Turkey Bowl

After watching Forever Strong the boys were inspired to

put all their energy into the game!
The competion continues!

Dressed for success. Our boys were on the winning

flag football team.

Thanksgiving Blessing Mix

Thanksgiving! I love this day! Everything about it...good food, family, traditions and gratitude. All good things. I found this super cute idea and had so much fun putting it together! And the other fun part besides being cute, I really like all the food in it. I haven't had bugles very many times as an adult, but I loved them as a kid, and I enjoy eating them again. And candy corn is so yummy that I don't buy it for fear of eating too much. I put the description of the ingredients along with their special meaning for Thanksgiving down below. If you are lucky enough to get one of these wonderful treats, enjoy!

Thanksgiving Blessing Mix

Devin's Special Lunch

Yes, I created this from the ingredients that we DID have in the fridge, since the sesame chicken recipe Devin found on Foodgawker called for too many items we did NOT have. Boo hoo. But with a little ingenuity, and a quick trip out to the garden, look what I created for him! Next time, it needs more spicy flavor.

When Devin's in the Kitchen...

...you can be sure that good eating is ahead. Devin said his ward RS sisters have treats almost every Sunday. They offered him a cinnamon roll this week, and he thought to himself, I can make GREAT cinnamon rolls. So he came home and PROVED it. Yum! I love that he goes all out, and doesn't take short cuts. Like me. I'm all about the bread machine. But he does the whole knead the dough thing. Thanks Devin! Your cinnamon rolls are wonderful!

Memories of a perfect day!

Devin's 21st Birthday!

Look at the intensity on that guy's face. He's doing some

serious air intake there. I'm resolved to do better on the

birthday cakes this year. Last year Devin's cake

had a moat around it. Eric's cake was lopsided, and

Keith's cake was a chunck of cheese with cottage cheese
frosting or some crazy high protein low carb thing!

I think the cakes have turned out a little better in 2009.

We went bowling to celebrate the big day. Eric's form

is looking real nice.

Devin is looking pretty good out there as well.

We played two games, some of us getting better, like me,

and some realized they had a serious case of beginner's luck,

like Eric! Devin tried to do a trick shot by quickly lifting

up the gutter rails to save his ball from dropping in the gutter,

but ended up cutting open his left hand! There was a piece

of sharp metal sticking out, the rubber covering was gone.

Ouch! But he rallied back and finished up pretty well.

My three boys showin' off their awesome shoes.

Devin definitely needs to get a pair of these. They'd be

great on the dance floor! Happy Birthday Devin!

You're a whole lotta fun to be with!

Eric's Halloween Festivities

So Eric has now graduated up from Trick or Treating

to Partying on Halloween. I think the transition was

fairly smooth. The Atikinson's invited all the kids in the stake over for

dinner and games on Halloween. Here's the motley crew

posing on the giant rock in the backyard. Eric is doing a

fine disco pose!

What Halloween party would be complete without

the doughnut on a string game? They also played

some basketball, some pool, pogo sticking, and a

couple of other fun games, Norwegion Nose Dive

and Four on the Couch, (the boys won).

At the dance. Eric is the center of attention, and

rightfully so in this getup.


Dancing with his favorite swing partner, Lauren.
So now all the Schenk kids have donned the disco
outfit. This was originally worn in the Western
Washington Dance Festival in 1978 by Keith.
I think that qualifies it as a classic!