Happy Thanksgiving

Every year, this nice lady named Carol, makes Thanksgiving pies to be served with dinner for the Salvation Army. She has been doing it a very long time. For the past 4 years, we've been lucky enough to be able to help. This year, the Salvation Army double booked their kitchen where we make the pies, so being the wonderful lady she is, Carol had everyone come to her house to make the pies, just like the early days of her pie making operation. We loaded up our cars with all of the supplies and headed over to her house.

People were mixing pumpkin for pumpkin pies in the front yard, apple crumble in the back yard, lemon meringue in the kitchen, and making pastry in the living room. All of the neighbors turned on their ovens, and baked the pies. It is always a blast. This year 212 pies were made.

I was on pie crust duty, which turned out to be slightly challenging. Gail, Sara and I had so much fun laughing about how horrible our pastry looked, but we figured once it was cut into slices, they wouldn't even notice. Callie & Hayden helped cut little leaf shapes out of pastry to put on top of the pumpkin pies.

Callie was an excellent pastry maker, as well as lemon juicer, and apple peeler. This girl wanted to try everything.

Poor Hayden had a run in with the lemon zester and grated this thumb. Owies and lemon don't mix too well. We told him his pie was extra special because a homeless person was getting a little bit of him with it :)

Afterwards, the excellent pie makers got to choose a treat of their liking at the gas station mini mart. We are so grateful for our many blessings, both temporal and spiritual. Here's wishing everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving.