Our African Adventure: It was a great Thanksgiving

I have so much to be thankful for in my life right now. My wonderful husband and my two great sons. I can not believe Jacob is 8 years old and loving school so much. Jared is 5 years old and already started school. Jacob is loving reading and writing and Jared loves learning altogether. We are getting to live in Angola and have been able to travel twice this year once to South Africa and once to London. We are getting to go back to the US in 14 days to see our family and friends. We are blessed to have made some really good friends here in Luanda and had them over tonight for Thanksgiving dinner. It was the first Thanksgiving dinner the Amer's have ever been to but they said the food was great. We also had the Horton family over and they are from the US so they said it made it feel more like Thanksgiving. This morning Kenny and I started cooking and we made pumpkin rolls, his great-aunt Jo's dressing, corn, salad, giblet gravy, mashed potatoes, banana pudding, fried turkey and Katie brought green beans and homemade ice cream. We were stuffed afterwards so we knew it was a good dinner. We had 8 kids at the house and they all had so much fun together. The kids table was so loud but they were having so much fun it was hard to tell them to stop laughing so loud. I am so thankful the boys have made friends with such wonderful kids. I know they will be friendships that last long past our stay in Luanda. I was a little down on Thursday because it didn't feel like Thanksgiving at all but after tonight it definitely felt like Thanksgiving in Luanda. I was a little worried about all the food turning out good for our first attempt every at Thanksgiving but everything turned out delicious.