Living in Thailand and being an American and having kids that understand holidays, I am highly aware that I need to expose my children to these holidays and try to help them understand.
My 4 year old son also attends a preschool, but they are an Australian based curriculum and don't celebrate the same holidays as we do. They still have school on Thanksgiving day!
I decided we would make some turkey cupcakes to share at school to commemorate the holiday!
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| Two of the turkey cupcakes we sent to school with Landon to share with his class. |
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We saved these two for daddy and Emmy.
She was eyeing them all during lunch! |
The day before Thanksgiving, I put myself to work and made three pies, a sweet potato casserole, and stove top stuffing!
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| Making pie crust! Starts with A LOT of flour. |
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| Pie crust in the making. |
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| Two pecan pies almost done! |
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| My first ever fruit pie! Mulberry! |
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| All done and it smelled so good. |
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I like making pecan pies in Thailand.
It's a rarity and everyone loves them! |
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They are japanese sweet potatoes.
They taste just like the ones we use in America. |
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| The inside. When they are baked up, they look almost greenish gray. |
We spent Thanksgiving Day at Tom and Debbie Morse's house.
There were others that joined us too, but we got there in the morning and helped out and played!
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| Our arrival at Tom and Debbie's house! |
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Cohen quickly fell in love with Uncle Richard!
He hunkered on down and promptly went to sleep! |
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| Regular potatoes before the were mashed into yummy goodness! |
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| Derry working on cutting the potatoes and Tom carving the turkey! |
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| Joshua decide to help Derry. |
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| I was there cheering them on, and look, there are my three pies! |
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| After baking/cooking it was time for games! |
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| Em loves the iPad! |
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| Grammy D reading to the kids. |
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| They snuggled on down and let her read away! |
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| She wanted me to take her picture. |
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This was my breakfast!
J/K I brought these from the States and decided to share. |
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| The beautiful table. |
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| A mountain of rolls! |
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| The yummy food everyone brought! |
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Landon and Emmy's table!
Happy Thanksgiving! |
It was a wonderful Thanksgiving and we are blessed to share it with wonderful people!
Tom and Debbie love it too because it is like having grandkids around!
Landon, Emery, and Cohen get a chance to see what it is like to grow up with family.
We are truly blessed here in Thailand!
Caption for the potato cutting pic: Wait. You let Derry loose with a knife?!
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