thanksgiving with friends

Inspired by our first Thanksgiving together after we were married where we went to California to visit my friend Kylene and her husband, Eric, we decided to host a "friends Thanksgiving dinner." We've talked about how fun it would be to spend a holiday with our friends, but everyone is with their families (of course). So we finally realized we can still celebrate a holiday even if it's not on the exact day (duh!). Anyway, we crammed 13 of our closest friends into our house and enjoyed a great meal (thanks everyone for bringing food!) and lots of great conversation. It was a much needed time with some pretty amazing people.

we don't have enough of anything for 15 people so everything is a hodge-podge of stuff, but we like how it turned out

Kevin and Mike carving the turkey (I forgot to get a picture of all the guys outside watching the football game while the turkey was in the deep fryer...it was quite the sight!)

Mike, Jed, Kevin, Kari

everyone else...Janna, Mandy, DeNae, Sarah, Matt, Bryan, Greg, MK, Brent, Karna

yes, that's a big bowl of mashed potatoes, which if you know me, you know I LOVE, so it's fitting that it's in the picture with us

Sophie slept through most of the meal, so this is the only picture I have with her in it, with her auntie Janna