Sorry for being a bit out of touch over the extended Thanksgiving weekend.  We were busy enjoying ourselves at my grandparents’ house in Iowa along with my parents, sister Genna and her fiance James.  A good time was had by all.  There was lots of lighthearted conversation, some football watching and of course, eating!  And because no feast would be complete without pie, Grandma made two, a caramel banana cream and an old-fashioned cherry.  Alethea said she liked the cream pie the best, but she didn’t object to scarfing down the cherry either:

Genna, James, Peter and I stayed up late Thanksgiving night to play a hotly contested game of Settlers of Catan.  James came out victorious in the end, but if he hadn’t won right when he did, Peter would have won on the next roll and I would have won on the roll after that, so yeah, it was a close one!

I also got some work done on my Christmas decorations.  Here’s one of the supplies I was using:

Five points to anyone who can guess what the mystery material is.  Five more points if you can also guess what I used it for.  (And anyone who was with me in Iowa doesn’t get to answer!)

All in all, it was a relaxing, fun, tasty and surprisingly productive weekend.  Hope yours was full of happy things too!