Our traditional Thanksgiving Meal...

We decided this year we would have a real Thanksgiving dinner. An authentic Thanksgiving dinner... without the turkey and all the trimmings...







Ok... I just had to put this picture first... even though it came near the end of our meal. It made me laugh so hard... I just had to make sure anyone passing by had a chance to laugh with me.






The kids and I baked a traditional Thanksgiving meal to go along with our Thanksgiving studies. We learned that the traditional turkey and dressing Thanksgiving meal isn't actually what the pilgrims and indians would have eaten.





So we did a little research...




The boys did a great job cleaning out these acorn squash, which we baked and added a little brown sugar and cinnamon (OK, so the pilgrims wouldn't have had sugar, but we did want the kids to at least eat it... )

We also hollowed out a pumpkin and baked apples and walnuts inside it. Josh and Jack did a great job cleaning all the seeds and we baked those for a healthy snack.

Our acorn squash....

Freshly killed venison straight off the grill...

The first ever slider...

Our spread...

Blueberry Indian Pudding... it was really yummy. Then we discovered it was extra yummy with ice cream on top. (Once again, a variation on what we know about the Pilgrims...)

The duck and the deer turned out to be their favorites. They ended up tearing that poor duck apart to get more meat off of it. It was delish!

Obviously, it was hysterical...

Josh found the duck heart and pretended to eat it. I say pretended because he's back to refusing to eat anything again... just like circa 2008...