Thanksgiving #2

We celebrated our second Thanksgiving of the year at Aaron's brother's.  We brought:

pumpkin cheesecake pie

AND

chocolate cake balls -- mmmmmm

 AND

a birthday card.

It was a beautiful warm day -- we were outside for most of it.

Tomorrow we have our third Thanksgiving feast -- this one will be ham though as we are turkey'd out!  

Thanksgiving #1 -- at the cottage

Our first of three Thanksgiving feasts, this one was held at my friend Betty Jo's cottage on the lake.  We picked cranberries and bbq'd turkey

Apples and caramel dip on the deck

The cranberries were on an island that we took the peddle boat too.  Nomdi just swam.

This guy was diligent about looking for berries

Greeting us at our triumphant return with cranberries.  I meant to take a picture of them but forgot.  We had a hard time finding any ripe one, they were mostly white, but they cooked up well!

A little music before dinner  . . .

To an appreciative audience

The remains of the feast.  Yes, that is pumpkin cheesecake . .

Believe it or not, these two are the same age.  In fact, Sam (on the right) is one week older.

 Sitting around the table telling jokes.  The kids really like the one about the monkey's butt.  Go figure . ..

  My attempt to take a picture of the scene without flash.  The candles did not look like this at the time (too bad!).

Cinnamon Buns

I made a promise.  I promised Liam's best friend Aaron (yes, it's confusing) that if he took Liam to his place for the weekend that I would make him cinnamon buns.  He did his part (thank you thank you) so I did mine.

Here the dough is rising.

I love making bread or any kind of dough you have to knead.  This dough has egg in it, which seems to make it even nicer to knead.  I used this recipe to make the buns.  I would recommend for full Cinnabonness that more filling be used.  Also, instead of cream cheese icing we used dolce le leche, so darn delicious!  Plus, you get the added fun of wondering if the cans of sweetened condensed milk will explode.  Ours didn't.

Here is the only shot I got of the finished product. I was lucky to get this one.

total yumminess, if I do say so myself . . .