HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. We hope you are having a wonderful day, hopefully hanging out with your family and eating some fabulous food. Kevin and I had a unique Thanksgiving this year and we want to share it with you. There is a bit of a story behind it, so sit back and listen.

Thanksgiving is the first potential vacation for me once football season starts. The regular season usually ends the second week of November. Before we realized that the Yellowjackets were an unbelievable football team, we made plans to go to Big Bend, TX. Kevin has been wanting to go there since we moved here, but it is about 12 hours from here, so not really a weekend trip. As Rockwall continued to win I realized that a Thanksgiving vacation was not a guarantee, so we scrapped the Big Bend trip. We just knew that I would be working and we would be playing football. Unfortunately, the outcome was not as planned. The good part is I got Wednesday, Thursday and Friday off (although I would have traded it for a playoff game).

Some people from our ABF (Adult Bible Fellowship) own a courier service and on Thanksgiving they partner with Meals on Wheels to deliver Thanksgiving dinner to people all over the area. So we contacted Tim and told him that we would love to deliver some meals. So we picked up the food at 9:30am and delivered the food to an independent living complex to ten different people. My grandma has received food from Meals on Wheels for many years, man I wish I could have delivered her Thanksgiving meal today! Just a side note, my Grandma Ann had her 98th birthday yesterday (11/22), WOW!
After we delivered the meals, my plan was to come home and cook dinner. I had decided that two people really didn't need a turkey, so we were going to have a meal made up of side dishes only. That's the best part of Thanksgiving dinner anyway. Well, last night we were watching TV and a very interesting type of "turkey" was talked about. So, we decided that this was the "turkey" for us.

Anyway, we did that, went and bought our "turkey" then headed home. We then went out for some exercise, I jogged a few miles and Kevin rode his bike then it was back home to cook.

OK, I know you are all just dying to know what we ate. Here is a picture of our "turkey."

I know what you are thinking, "Allison, that is not a turkey!" You're right, it is a Tofurkey! It is tofu with stuffing in the middle. We were a little nervous about it, but thought, what the heck. Surprisingly it was good. It kinda tasted like turkey. We even bought some gravy to go with it, vegan of course. The rest of the meal consisted of sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, strawberry jello, rolls and a pumpkin pie cheesecake. So, here in the middle of Texas, the state with the best meat in the country, we had a vegan Thanksgiving! It was fantastic!!!Of course, as we sat down to eat we each said what we were thankful for. Kevin said he was thankful for a job that was close to home, something he couldn't have said last year. I am thankful for loving my job again, something I couldn't have said last year! Then I said I was also thankful that we were adopting a little girl from China, and to that Kevin said "Me too."

HAPPY TOFURKEY DAY!