Thanksgiving!

we had an awesome thanksgiving meal and tried many new recipes this year! martha stewart came thru with the spatchcocked turkey in the november issue. This is by far the best way to cook a turkey, i will never to it the old ay again! we cooked a 12 lb. turkey in 70 minutes and it was the juiciest turkey i've ever had!

following with martha's suggestions, i decided to make an apple pie and cut maple leaves out of the dough for the top crust. mom and i searched everywhere for a leaf cookie cutter but we couldn' find one so all the leaves were hand cut. it looked beautiful and was very delicious. i also made my first homemade cheesecake but i didn't get any pictures, it went fast!

luke-dog, just chillin...

great- grandma berte and aiyden playing patty cake...

family photo, it's been a while since everyone was together. we took like 10 pictures trying to get the perfect one but it was so cold and windy on the porch. this was to best one... perfectly imperfect.