Thanksgiving

We spent Thanksgiving with my (Keri's) family in Fairfield. Since we usually travel far to visit family for holidays, we were so happy about being able to stay in the Bay Area.

We started the celebration with the annual Adams Family Thanksgiving soccer game with my cousins, brothers, aunt and my mom playing. For the first time ever, we played indoor soccer this year due to the rain. We have played in water and puddles before but never while it was actually raining. So I talked my dad into letting us into their church building to play.

We were asked to bring rolls for the feast and since I have never been able to get homemade rolls to turn out, I  decided to tackle the challenge again. The last time I tried, I had bought a box of Lion House Rolls mix and after a day in the kitchen with only dense pucks of rolls to show for it, I was ready to be done. But my Grandma Goss heard the story and encouraged me not to give up.

Since Matt loves baked bread so much, I've been buying him frozen rolls. On the instructions for these, I learned a new trick for getting my bread to rise which is always where I go wrong. A - I have no patience and don't wait long enough before cooking them and B - I do everything they say to but still can't get my bread to rise the second time. The tip listed on this packaging was to turn the oven on the lowest setting for five minutes, then turn it off and put your dough in.

With this new knowledge, I decided to try a roll recipe of Matt's great-grandmother that Kathy had emailed to me. I made the dough the day before and then I took it up to Fairfield and used my brother, Josh's, oven to help my dough rise.

In a true Thanksgiving miracle, my rolls turned out wonderfully. My bread manic husband was SO happy!

I also had a fun time putting together some table decorations for our feast, along with my mom and my niece, Jayla's, help.  I was able to use my little paper turkeys for Primary singing time on Sunday which made the time I put into creating them more worth it.

We stuffed our faces, we played some games, Matt watched lots of football and enjoyed our time with family.

Not a feast without the bubbly

Paper turkey place cards I made for everyone the night before. Jayla helped me draw in the eyes and legs and write everyone's names.