End of Winter Turkey Dinner

Over a year ago, one of Tim's co-workers gave him a recipe for cooking a turkey on a grill. He's been wanting to do it ever since and last Friday all of his turkey dreams came true. Tim had FOUR DAYS OFF in a row (that's a whole wonderful post in itself), and he decided to use his time off to host a delicious turkey dinner, he named it the "End of Winter Turkey Dinner", since it's been averaging in the 70's around here and winter is well on it's way out. The guests? My family of course. (Remember when we lived in San Diego far away from family and we had friends?......we should try and branch out a little more). We had a really good time and I was really impressed with Tim for planning the whole thing, food assignments and all (I may have micromanaged just a smidgen). 

Turkey's are out of season right now, but the butcher at the grocery store had a few tucked away just in case. Lucky us!! He brined the bird overnight.

Once the turkey was covered up it had to stay covered until it was done, so we all huddled around to watch him open the lid. My mom is pointing to the two turkey's in the picture. She makes me laugh.

Look at that beauty!

Logan surprised us all and drove down from Flagstaff to partake of the deliciousness!

The kids at in the back, squatting on a sheet like little neanderthals. 

 One thing you should know about Tim, he does not host a party without party games. So he did his classic "you write the caption" and also the how many tootsie rolls are in the jar.

We all got three stickers and got to vote on who had the best captions. My mom and Whitney won, no surprise there.

And Elle won the Tootsie roll game, 107 tootsie rolls

My mom read the grandkids a book. That is one of my favorite memories of her as a child. She used to read Ms. Piggle Wiggle books to us. I LOVED it!

And Grandpa got a big attack of thank you's from the grandkids for buying them all McFlurry's.

It was a pretty great evening for everyone!!