Thanksgiving

Our Pastor, Silas, is from Texas and invited us over for Thanksgiving this year along with a couple other of our American friends from church. Silas’s wife, Amanda, is Australian, but she lived in the States for a while and so she has adopted Thanksgiving too.

It was Amanda’s first time cooking Thanksgiving dinner, and she wanted it to be the full traditional meal. She followed the recipes of Paula Dean who is a cook on the Food Network specializing in  southern-style cooking – perfect for Thanksgiving! All of the food was incredibly delicious.

The table was set beautifully with place cards and a homemade candle centerpiece. Amanda is so creative!

  Amanda, our chef:

Sitting down to our Thanksgiving feast. From left to right: Nancy, Mark (Nancy’s son), Anthony, Me, and Silas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We had to get Amanda in the group shot too :)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The desserts were amazing, even though we were so full from dinner!! Homemade pecan pie and homemade pumpkin pie (from a real pumpkin, not a can! We were very impressed!)

Here’s a few more pictures from the evening:

Caitie had the most adorable “first” Thanksgiving outfit :)

We had an awesome time celebrating Thanksgiving this year – even if it was 85 degrees outside :) We are very grateful for the friends we have made here – they are friendships that will last a lifetime (and an excuse to keep visiting Australia!) We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving as well!