Again this year, Ron and I participated in the Community Thanksgiving dinner - delivering to 4 households. We did not serve this year due to Covid restrictions. We brought home a delicious turkey dinner to enjoy while we readied the house and snacks for the arrival of the Todds later in the day.
They arrived around 4 p.m. Since Peyton wanted to make cake balls this year, we baked the red velvet cake Thursday evening. Peyton and Garrison had a great time "crumbing" up the cake - with gloved hands - then added the frosting and made out the cake balls to freeze so we could dip them in chocolate the next day. We had fun playing Kings in the Corner and watched Holey Moley and laughed a lot,
On Baking Day - #18 I think - we dipped the cake balls, made peanut butter balls, baked 11 dozen monster cookies, made divinity and reindeer noses. Peyton mixed up and rolled out Grandma Mintun's recipe of homemade noodles to fix the next day. She did a wonderful job.The guys played 9 holes of golf. We had a great time. In the afternoon, Amanda and I took Peyton to the cemetery to practice driving. It was so much fun. She did a great job. For dinner, we ordered Pizza Glen. We played the Saran Ball game which was fun The next day we played a game with gift exchange and Have You Ever Harrison especially enjoys the games
On Saturday, the. kids counted the money in their piggy banks that we keep here and Grandpa took them to the bank to make a deposit. We all pitched in fixing "our" Thanksgiving meal after which they went back to Overland Park.
On Sunday, Marnie Bellamy and I played the entire service, including the gathering music and special music for the 8:15 service and played the hymns at the 9:30 service. The Todds were busy choosing a new dog at Wayside Waifs - and Bingo is his name ago. Garrison is especially thrilled. The new addition to our family is 2 years old and is pretty much housebroken and is very loving. We can't wait to meet him.
It was a great weekend. We are blessed.
