Thanksgiving Pie Making

Thanksgiving pie making.  It's tradition in our family.  It happens almost every Wednesday before Thanksgiving, with Grandma Sue, Mikayla, and I gathering to crank out anywhere between six and nine pies, depending on how many people will be at dinner.  Always pumpkin, apple, and pecan.  Ava loves to be involved in this project, too, and this year, she was upset that their family was going to be gone for Thanksgiving and she was going to miss pie making.  They are leaving on Tuesday to go to Disneyland for the week and won't be here.

As Christopher and Tysen were going to be gone and miss Thanksgiving completely, we decided to have a DeMartini Thanksgiving tomorrow, Sunday.  And that also meant that Ava could be involved in pie making because we did it today instead.  We all gathered at Tysen's house because she has two ovens that work, a fun basement the kids can play in if they don't want to make pie, and a large island we can all work around.  With lots of small helpers we made six pies, two of each kind.  Ava and her friend Alison worked hard, helping make crust, slicing apples, and mixing filling.  It was fun work, nice to visit, and a treat to carry on a family tradition.