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On Tuesday morning Jeff flew to Redding, CA and exchanged car keys with Sara Madsen at the airport. Sara then flew to Seattle and Jeff stayed in Redding and drove to Seattle with Steve Madsen on Wednesday. Confusing, I know. Jeff's idea and he was pretty darn proud of it in order to get in some extra "guy time" with his friend Steve. So, Wednesday night we had Steve and Sara Madsen and 3 of their 5 kids here. Because Sara arrived on Tuesday afternoon we had lots of time to do Thanksgiving pre-cooking together but still everyone had their assignments to do.

Me making rolls.

Jeff was the mashed potatoes guy. Good job, Jeff!

Sara was the turkey de-boner and also came with a great idea that we incorporated to a tradition that we already had. Almost 9 years ago we had Thanksgiving with our wonderful friends, the Craguns who shared with us their tradition... put and apple and an onion inside the turkey before you cook it... cover it with a cut-up t-shirt and put pats of butter on the t-shirt... cook as normal. It adds such a yummy flavor to the turkey. Sara read somewhere for an extra moist turkey put a piece of citrus in the turkey... we put a grapefruit along with the onion, t-shirt and whole bit. All I have to say is OH MY! That was the most moist and flavorful turkey I have EVER had. That's our new tradition. Try it out Craguns!

I'm normally not a white meat girl but this year I only had white meat... it was just oozing with yummy juices. I'm tellin' ya, you've got to try it and I want a report next year about how it turned out.

The rolls

The ladies made a coconut cream pie and chocolate mousse pie. YUM! Costco made our pumpkin and apple pies.

Steve made a good effort on the clean-up committee.

Our dinner was so yummy we wanted to show you how yummy it was.

After eating too much and playing "fat dog" (laying around because you're so full) some of went and saw Twilight. We loved it. I had read so many negative reviews about it that I had low expectations. Yes the make-up was bad and of course it wasn't as good as the book and blah blah blah... but I thought the actors were great. I thought they fit as much into that 2 hour movie as they could while still telling a decent story. At first I didn't care for Edward but by the end I thought he was quite charming and handsome. I did think he should have smiled more. It's just a testimony again of why we should read books before seeing the movie...

It was a great Thanksgiving for us here in Seattle.