Thanksgiving Day 2013

We had a great Thanksgiving Day celebration with my husband's family.  We woke up early, got ready, and drove to our folks' so we can be there before the Thanksgiving dinner at 1:00 P.M.  We ordered breakfast to-go at McDonald's so DD, DH, and I had something to much on the road.

Everybody's busy at the folks' house.  When we arrived, the rest of the family were there already except my husband's sister because she was still at work.  We waited for her to arrive then we ate super delicious Thanksgiving feast.

My mother-in-law.  FIL and BIL at work with that turkey.

Kids having fun playing board games.

My favorite dirty rice.

Grown-ups were playing Mahjong.  I almost win it. 

We also had lots of pies-cherry pie, pumpkin pie, apple pie, and lemon squares.  They're so yummy!  I enjoyed the pumpkin pie and the lemon squares.  It was a wonderful Thanksgiving Day celebration as always.  My sister-in-law, her husband, her son, and me played Mahjong.  I haven't played in a while and I didn't know how they play it here in the US.  My MIL taught me and I was kind of getting it now.  

Our folks' lemon tree bears fruits and they ripen around Thanksgiving.

After playing outside, DD picked some leaves in the backyard and gave them to me.

Cute napkin.

How about you?  How's your Thanksgiving Day?

4th Of July Get-Together

It is going to be fun 4th of July celebration tomorrow.  BIL and his family will come over to shoot fireworks.  My cousin and her family will be visiting too.  Oh it is gonna be nice.  We will have barbeque for the get-together. It will be my cousin's first experience to shoot fireworks.  Mine was three years ago.  It's scary but the excitement is there.

Who Doesn't Want To Cook?

I do not know anything about cooking until I lived with my aunts in Manila when I was a working student. My aunt's sister-in-law prepares food for the family because my aunt doesn't know how to cook either. If the house has the complete kitchenware, who doesn't want to cook?

The sister-in-law taught me simple dinner meals. Of course, those are the food that I like cooking because they are very easy to prepare :) My cousins and uncle are picky eaters. He likes to have vegetables but the children are not much into it. So it is always the three food groups on the table. Healthy huh? Everybody should eat at the table on meal time. And the table should be set with proper china and flatware.

That's good though.