Dec 2, 2009

Happy Turkey Day!

It all stared off with a neighbor of mine. We decided to rent the community center near our house and invite a few lonely people over for Thanksgiving. We put out an open invitation at church and had a few bites. No one want to be alone on Thanksgiving. So we end up with like 4 families that want to join us. Then a few more. Then we found out that among the families coming a few of them had also invited missionaries to come. No problem right. How about 14 sets of them. That's right we had 28 missionaries there. 28 missionaries that were soooooo excited to be eating American food.
So when it was all said and done there were over 8o people there. It was a little crowded but still worth it to see all of there happy faces and by some miracle full bellies. We had 4 turkeys 3 hams, about a hundred pound of potatoes(that was the one thing we had left over) and a lot of pies.
I am so glad that we had people to celebrate with. Harold had to fly some 3 star around that day(and he didn't even get a coin for it, cheap skate General) so we really would have been alone. It is never fun to be away from home for Holidays. I am so glad we had friends here to share this Thanksgiving with.


Harold Cooking the 25 pound turkey he didn't get to eat :(



Tonya And Karen serving it up.


Emma at the "what are you grateful for" tree.


The teen table.

Jody getting some food before it is all gone. She is my neighbor. She is moving next month :(

Look at all those happy faces. It was all worth it just for that.

4 comments:

Megan said...

Wow! I am impressed with your hosting abilities. That is great that the missionaries were able to have a Thanksgiving dinner.

Katie Webb said...

You made so many people happy that day! Way to go on getting it together for so many unexpected ones! It looks like everyone really enjoyed themselves.

Jennefer said...

Wow Darsha!

I can't believe you did all of this work all by yourself and no one else helped you at all. You are incredible! Like Martha Stewart!! I expect the same thing from you at Christmas and New Years and Valentines Day... Oh and don't forget the table cloths!! You are AMAZING!!

ha ha! no really... I am sure you did a lot of work to pull this together and you helped to make a lot of people happy. And thanks to all of the people who helped too. Good memories.

Cindy said...

sounds like a great holiday. THats alot of people to feed.