PINCOCK FAMILY: Thanksgiving

I know it's old news now, but our Thanksgiving was a blast! Andrew's parents came to town and it was so fun to have them, along with Andrew's two sisters & my brother over for dinner (my brother being married to one of those sisters, for those of you who don't know about our selective family situation). It was also fun to have my sister & her husband stop by for a bit.

This was the first year we've ever had Thanksgiving at our house, and I was a bit nervous about being 'the hostess'...but everyone really worked together to make it a wonderful meal and a fabulous day. Lucky for me, I have a brother in law who loves to cook turkey and gravy and chocolate cheesecake; a husband who makes the best mashed potatoes (we learned a few tricks from our days spent as servers at Tucanos); a sister in law who makes amazing homemade stuffing-the real deal!; another sister in law who made the best sweet potatoes I've ever eaten in my life; a mother & father in law who kept the grandkids entertained outside of the kitchen; and a brother who helped me with my one big job (making rolls). After all that, I had hardly anything to do!

Esther & I decided that we wanted to start a few new traditions this year. One of our fabulous ideas, that wasn't really ours (I was inspired by the amazing Markoff family from my home ward. They have some pretty incredible Thanksgiving traditions. I really shouldn't even post this link, because then you'll compare us with the Markoffs, and it just really isn't fair for anyone else in the world to be compared with that amazing family, but I must share my inspiration, and their pictures are just so fun to look at! Hope you don't mind Jen!!), was to dress everyone up like Pilgrims and Indians. This was the first year we've ever done this (I know some of you do this every year), and I was a little nervous about how much work the costumes would take. Let me just tell you that we had so much fun! It really wasn't too much work, and it was so worth it. It will be even easier next year now that we have a few things on hand and know what we're doing better. (and YES, there will be a next year guys!) We bought a few things from the thrift store and make the Pilgrim & Indian hats, so it didn't cost us much money.

We also had the kids make gratitude turkeys out of apples and construction paper feathers. They had a lot of fun, and it was a great way to focus on some things we are thankful for, while still keeping them all entertained!

Things got a little dicey when certain football lovers realized that our home has no tv, which equals no football, but even that problem was solved quite effectively. (Luckily, my brother has sort of a thing for tv's, and his was located not too far away, and potatoes are easily transferred and must be peeled by several men at once.)

Anyway, here are a few pictures.