The Mann Family: Only one word.......

D E L I C I O U S!!!

That is the only way to describe our wonderful Thanksgiving dinner. Rick's turkey was amazing! He started brining the turkey yesterday. For those that don't know what brining is, it is soaking the turkey in a salt/sugar water bath for 24 hours.

This was the first year we have done that and it was truly delicious! Along with the turkey, we had mashed potatoes (which AJ peeled and cut himself), stuffing, sweet potatoe casserole, biscuits and fresh cranberies. I still can't believe it took us 5 hours to prepare everything and only about 30 minutes to eat until we were ready to explode.

Before Dinner

After Dinner

Last year, we let AJ and Ashleigh eat on glass plates for Thanksgiving and also drink out of a glass cup and of course, AJ (who does not forget anything) asked if they were going to be allowed to do that again this year. I can't believe he remembers that stuff. We also bought sparkling grape cider for everyone to drink. AJ at first thought it was wine and he told us he was not allowed to drink "that stuff" because he was "only in 2nd grade!" He is too funny sometimes. Ashleigh eat a ton of cranberries and we were teasing her that she was going to turn into a big cranberry. She did not think it was too fun. When there are cranberries around, she could eat the entire bowl. AJ, on the other hand, does not like cranberries at all. We still have dessert (apple pie) to eat, but none of us can even think about that right now.