Thanksgiving Weekend in Minocqua

Here are some pictures that were taken over Thanksgiving. Most of them are my mom, sister's and I baking. Others are of family bonding over video games. The 3 days of cooking ended up being a "Comedy of Errors" for the following reasons:

• forgetting a cup of sugar
• forgetting if baking soda was added or not
• the taco sauce lid not on all the way
• peanut butter cookie dough rolling off the pan onto the bottom of the oven
• Oven is turned off to get all the cookie dough out, not turned back on (unknowingly) and us wondering why the cookies aren't baking completely?? :)
• These are only a few!

The picture with Melissa with her hands on my belly and the two of us laughing hysterically is because the picture was suppose to have Tricia on the other side, but as my mom was taking the picture Baby Starke kicked Tricia and she freaked out and ran away!

For those of you who do not know, my dad cooks Thanksgiving dinner at the local church. The rest of us help out during the days before and day of making sure everything is ready. Thanksgiving Day we all sign up for specific jobs (i.e. pouring coffee, clearing tables, serving line, dishes) and help out. We make sure that at a certain time all of us stop "working" and sit down for Thanksgiving Dinner together. This year my dad served 350 at the church and there were 100 deliveries for home bound people. The 450 people include hunters, widows/widowers, those who cannot afford a meal, those who want Thanksgiving on Thanksgiving & family members are coming until Saturday, those who do not want to do the work a Thanksgiving meal takes, those who are alone and do not want to spend Thanksgiving alone, etc. It is a real mix of people. It was neat to have all 7 of us there helping this year :).