A Day of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving – it’s like Christmas – in November! And it really is a most excellent holiday. My family gathered down at my parents’ house in Orem, Utah for dinner. My brothers from Arizona were able to come up with my nephew and niece. We were only missing 2 brothers – one in North Carolina (Paul) and one brother serving a Mormon mission in Taiwan (Jonathan – he returns home next month).

What am I thankful for this day? Family. It is a lot of fun to have the family gather under one roof and just hang out. With 5 grandkids in the house it can be quite noisy. And it is my job to photograph and document the family. So I hope you enjoy some photographs of my family. The full gallery of photographs are on my SmugMug page.

Thanksgiving at the Daniels' home in Orem

There was a lot of potato making – I think at one point everyone was involved in peeling the potatoes and making sure they were ready for the mashing. Even my dad helped out – because he had a gadget that would help out.

The Bush family help make potatoes

Mom makes potatoes

Yes, I know that cranberry sauce in a can is probably not the classiest thing on the menu. This stuff is good though – it had whole cranberries – not just the cranberry paste that was so popular in the “old days.” I feel so old as I reminisce, lol. But having had sooo many Thanksgiving dinners in so many different locations – including the Philippines and Puerto Rico – it is the memories with families that we cherish the most.

Cranberry sauce! (from a can - but is is sooo good)

Dad makes potatoes

Ham, because some people don't like turkey ( Joe )

Marianne stirs the potatoes

Rolls are raising

Mom and my two sisters - Marianne and Melanie

The potatoes

And I love this photograph – it has my sister comforting her daughter Julianne. Moms are the peacemakers in the family.

Mom comforts her daughter

Jello is ready for the eating

Thanksgiving isn’t complete without Cool Whip – or some kind of whip topping.

Cool Whip

To distract the kids we did go on a walk (run) around the block. Henry had to run to keep up with everyone else. And he liked to stop and look at things. And as uncle with the camera I had to take the photos.

Henry goes on a run around the block

Joel and Annie

The table is ready for Thanksgiving dinner

Nature - don't know what kind of berries these would be

My mom

My sister Melanie

My brother Joel - a budding photographer

Julianne draws in chalk before dinner

Everyone had a pumpkin or gord for their place setting

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