The Feast

Appetizers: Crackers & Cheese Ball!

Main course: Lots of Orange Food...

Dessert:

Blueberry pie, pumpkin pie, and pumpkin bars.

We were stuffed.

When I invited the Sister Missionaries over for Thanksgiving dinner,

I told them I would be making all my favorite parts of Thanksgiving

(and none of the parts I didn't like to eat).

As I planned, I neglected to think about color.

So, we had less color than perhaps we could have:

White cheese with white & yellow crackers,

Orange butternut squash soup,

Pink ham,

Orange sweet potato casserole,

Orange stuffed squash,

White crusty bread,

and Green kale (as a last-minute addition for some color!).

Orange pumpkin pie,

Blue blueberry pie, and

Orange pumpkin bars topped off the meal.

I opted out of the mashed root veggies (they would have been orange)

because I didn't feel like making gravy.

Thanksgiving was a wonderful time

to remember all the good things in my life

and to begin to learn to be thankful

for some of the harder things, too.

And he who receiveth all things

with thankfulness

shall be made glorious;

and the things of this earth

shall be added unto him,

even an hundred fold,

yea, more.

-D&C 78:19