Kayla rolling out pie dough.The day before Thanksgiving Kayla and Alyssa helped me make pies, the dough for our rolls (it has to be refrigerated overnight), and chop the cranberries. Kayla not only helped with all of that, but she also helped with the TONS of dishes and clean up!
Alyssa making the pumpkin pie filling.One of the things about baking is that it dirties a ton of dishes and makes a big mess! But it is worth it particularly on days like Thanksgiving!
Kayla and I getting a self portrait in front of our handiwork.
AND we used the tricks suggested on Good Things Utah for our pies and notice how we got no black spots on our Pumpkin Pie and our Apple pie didn't boil over into the oven.
The morning after Thanksgiving, Laren and I found ourselves up and groggy at 3:25 am to go shopping. Thankfully our big electronic purchase (plasma TV) had been made earlier in the week. At 4:00 am we were at Kohls, at 5:00 am were were Walmart, at 6:00 am I was at Target and Laren was at Circuit City. Then I went back to Walmart and Laren went into Bed Bath and Beyond to get me some stocking holders for the mantel. (It was right next to Circuit City, otherwise I'm sure I'd have had to do this errand myself. He doesn't go in stores like that unless he is compelled to by me! :) )
Apple pie, Pumpkin Pie, Sour Cream Lemon Pie and Pumpkin Cake that Kallie made.We were back home by 8:15 am with most of our shopping done, everything but a couple of items. Our wallets are lighter than ever now! Our kids will be excited, we hope! I can't spill what we got because my older 2 girls read my blog.
My 5 kiddo's decorating the Christmas Tree 2007.My kids started decorating the house for Christmas bright and early Friday morning. Around 9:30 am I went back out for round 2 of shopping with Kayla and Alyssa who really wanted to hit some Black Friday sales. I took them to Home Depot, Kohls, Walmart and Kmart. (Yes, I ended up at Walmart 3 times on Friday morning - blech! I call Walmart my necessary evil!)
We finished up most of the rest of our decorating this morning.
6 comments:
I love your pie presentation! I always wanted that 4 tier thing at costco - but couldn't ever justfy having 4 items out at the same time! And wow! You have a dish helper! I'm so jealous! Everyone passed out in front of the TV after our dinner!
Ooh, good pie tips! My pumpkin pie often gets those black marks on it. It's nice to know why!
It looks like a great Thanksgiving. I'm glad you had a good time. (p.s., since your girls read this blog, I'll be careful not to mention that you got them each a new car for Christmas).
It looks like you had a great Thanksgiving! The pies look yummy!
my mouth is watering looking at al of those pies! yum-o!
I'm so glad you and your dd's had fun together cookin' away! I'm sure they will look back on it later in life and it will be one of their fondest memories of time spent with mom!
Thanksgiving can be so much work and then is eating in 30 minutes--but all the cooking and cleanup takes so much longer. all good for the building of memories, but not efficiency. And for the shopping, I am glad I am not in the states for that because I would feel compelled to do the same but reading someone that gets up so early and is basically done by 8 is just mind boggling. I would be so tired and spent the rest of the day. I am amazed you could go out again with your girls. I guess I am just not a shopper. I just dread all the crowds and all the impluse buying I do. But I must at some point because I have presents to get.
What a great time! I just love this time of year. I hit some sales, too, but it wasn't too crazy. I did NOT go to Wal-Mart. Just wasn't going to fight crazy people that early (btw, I'm not calling you crazy!).
I LOVE the pie stand! Where can I get one of those???
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