We were planning on getting together with the Garner side for Thanksgiving this year, but their plans changed, so we had an unusual but wonderful Thanksgiving. We tried inviting lots of neighbors, people Richie works with, and asking if anyone in the ward needed a place to go for Thanksgiving. But we kept coming up empty! About a week before Thanksgiving, the Stone family (who Richie knows from his Bluffdale days) said their plans had changed and they'd love to get together. Yay!
We've gotten together with them a few times and our kids all get along great. It's so nice when you all genuinely enjoy each other's company. We also had the missionaries over, but because of covid, there were some odd rules they had to obey (wearing masks the entire time, and eating in a separate room) but we worked around them.
Miles and Richie were invited to a turkey bowl in the morning while the other kids watched the Macy's parade online (oddest edition yet, thanks 2020), and I worked on the food. Then Richie took all the kids to a bike park to try out their newly fixed bikes and to give me some concentrated time to cook.
We had turkey, mashed potatoes, wild rice and sausage stuffing, rolls, dixie salad, veggie tray and homemade cranberry sauce. For dessert we had a chocolate Oreo pudding dish, salted Carmel pear pie, pecan bars, and mini apricot pies. YUM!
We ate and then the kids played and played the entire rest of the day. At one point, we initiated a new tradition. Since Taylor Stone remembers doing some swing dancing with Richie back in the day, Richie was refreshing his memory of the Shim Sham. We made it a thing and brought as many kids as would willingly participate and we taught them the Shim Sham! New tradition born! (can't believe these are the only 5 pictures I got!)
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