This year Thanksgiving was just a little different for us. Since we're in Florida we were to far away from family to visit. So we had our own Thanksgiving. Just our little family. The day before Thanksgiving I started making dinner so I wouldn't have to do everything the day of. I made the pumpkin pie and the deviled eggs.
Then bright and early in the morning I stuffed the turkey and put it in the oven, made a banana cream pie, took a break while Nick made the sweet potatoes, made the green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and gravy. And while we were doing all that Cicily was watching the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade and she was waving at all the floats and people on the TV it was really cute. Then right about the time the Turkey was finishing cooking the Carbon Monoxide alarm goes off. At first I was kinda confused because I was thinking it was the fire alarm, but we didn't have any smoke in the house. So I went out side to check if it was the building alarm, because we live in an apartment so it could have been someone else, But it wasn't the building alarm. So I went back inside and looked at the alarm and I realized it was the Carbon Monoxide detector so then I'm panicking wondering what we should do, because dinner had just finished and we had a large thanksgiving dinner just sitting there. It was very frustrating. So we opened all the windows in our apartment, the door too, and Cicily and I sat outside while Nick went to the front office to see if there was anyone there to talk to. Of course no one was there on Thanksgiving though. So Nick called his dad to see what he thought. We all felt fine and we figured it was from all the cooking since our stove and oven is gas and since the heat hasn't been on at all. So Nick reset the detector and it didn't go off again after an hour of airing out.
Luckily most of the food was still hot or warm at least to have our Thanksgiving dinner after that little episode. I think we did pretty good on dinner for cooking my first turkey, banana pie, pumpkin pie, and gravy. It all turned out great even with being sick. Cicily loved Thanksgiving dinner too she had a little bit of everything and even pointed out a couple things she wanted more of.
Cicily really liked the water balloons too.
Then we had a BBQ for dinner hotdogs hamburgers the works it was really good.
Next we played croquet out back, and the little girls really wanted to play. Then while we were waiting for dark to light the fireworks the guys played tip-in while I got everyone homemade ice cream (I made it and it was amazing! Raspberry Cheesecake! Yumm!). We couldn't do the BarbieQ this year, because Jenny finaly ran out of Barbies we all knew this day would come so we sacrificed Conners stuffed Scorpion, and all toys are now afraid, and call us Sid. The Scorpion went well and stuffing flew everywhere. 
The guys also did the annual jumping over the fireworks and dunking. And Cicily and Rachel really enjoyed the fireworks and were quite entertained. Rachel kept going ouuuu, and Cicily who nothing keeps her attention, the fireworks did.
Opening Presents "I want That one"
Wow there's stuff inside the paper!
Why is the head off my teddy bear?
She really wanted to be a mommy too, and take care of her baby.
Baby pushing a baby!
