A British Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving preparations!

We baked to a soundtrack of Christmas music, ushering in the holidays. 

Morgan makes cinnamon roll dough for Thanksgiving morning! yum!

The grocery stores in the UK do not sell "tinned pumpkin."  It is basically unheard of.  So we had to carve out our own pumpkin for our pies!

Serena making crust. :)

Thanksgiving morning the babes went for their own turkey trot.

We told the Belsey Bridge staff who had thanksgiving with us that this is traditional Thanksgiving headwear. 

At home, I am always in charge of the thanksgiving crafts, so I was super stoked to help out with the table decorations!  Thanks to mom and dad for the thanksgiving stickers (we put them down the center of the table).  If you look closely, you can see the handprint turkey on the yellow paper.  :)

Gracie, Serena, Joy, Stephanie, and Chris prepare to serve the meal.

Grace and Cheri make reindeer antlers with the left over twigs. classic. 

  It was a little strange to have Thanksgiving in the country the Pilgrims left . . . but I really enjoyed seeing the confusion on some of our British friends's faces as they saw all of our traditional Thanksgiving foods (I have had that reaction to THIER food many a time on this trip). I especially relished their skepticism of the jello dishes; but they loved the pumpkin pie.  Morgan and I (after looking last week in multiple grocery stores to find pumpkin and failing) decided that only a strange and backward place would not carry pumpkin in their grocery stores.  Perhaps it's time to go back to America.  :) We are all very thankful for our family and friends back home, and we miss you all very much!  We consoled ourselves after an early dinner (with the time difference, we were probably among the first in the world to celebrate turkey day this year) by watching eight episodes of The Office and reading Madeline's new issue of Vogue.  And the feather headbands, those helped too.