Thanksgiving 2010

November is always a busy month for us. We celebrated our 7th year of marriage on the 22nd! Oh how God has blessed us over the years. This year we had dinner at Spencer's Steakhouse. I got the Eye of Ribeye steak and Chang got the Prime Spencer's Steak...so delicious! And their bread and wine were super good. Despite not being carded (booo!), we had such a good time and got a bit buzzed from the wine. Afterwards, we headed off to see Harry Potter at the theatre. We were so thankful to have Jandre's family babysit BOTH kids for us. It was the best anniversary present ever.

This year, we had 3 Thanksgiving dinners. One at church, one at Jandre's, and one at home.

We had kalbi, chicken, sausage, jabchae, soondae, and lots of other yumminess at Jandre's place. His mom can cook! She is such a diligent mommy. Our stomachs were happy and Ryan got to hang out with Jandre's cousins so he had fun.

Below is our dinner at home. I really liked the turkey this year but it was a mishmash of multiple recipes so I totally mixed things up and lost track of what I was doing so I probably cannot repro this turkey again ever. My fav recipe this year is the cranberry sauce though. I love it so much I've even been putting the leftover cranberry sauce on everything! Cranberry sauce on salad...cranberry sauce on rice...cranberry sauce with cookies. LOL.

Lauren will be 6 months on Dec 4 and these days Lauren is sitting up by herself ... ALMOST. She flaps her arms up and down like a chicken whenever she gets excited or when she wants to keep herself occupied. When Ryan was her age, he used to put his hands together and just stare at them. It's interesting how each kid is so different. Ryan used to sleep with his butt in the air, but Lauren likes to sleep like this. HAHA.

These days Ryan's most favorite thing to do is have a sleepover in the living room. We lay out the futon in front of the big screen and watch a movie with popcorn and snacks and then play in the makeshift blanket tent with a flashlight and sleep there. Oh so fun!! Oh man, I know I'm gonna miss these days sooo much when the kids are older.  

Our marriage has been blessed with these two sweet kids. I love them!!

Happy Thanksgiving!