My Thanksgiving

Dear Friends,

I spent Thanksgiving with Mrs. Carmichael and her family. On Wednesday there wasn't school, so we got up early and cleaned up the house to get ready for all the guests. We made rolls, made the cranberry relish, and baked the pumpkin pies for dessert. On Thursday, as you can see in the pictures I helped roast the turkey, stir green beans (from her garden this summer), and I helped slice the turkey. I was ready to eat and was glad when the food was ready, the house smelled very good with the turkey cooking. I didn't mash the potatoes since there were so many and it was too hard for me, but I ate them! I liked the bread dressing, it is made with 3 loaves of homemade bread, chicken broth, celery, onions, salt, pepper, and sage. After it is baked it is good with the gravy on it! We also had 2 turkeys, one was roasted in the oven and the other one Mr. Carmichael cooked outside on the smoker/grill. I ate a lot of food and was very full later on. I got to play Christopher and Adyn, Mrs. Carmichael's grandsons, they liked to hold me. I also showed her family our blog and they read some of the blogs, they liked looking at your pictures! They wish they could all go to Italy for a visit. On Friday, we rested and ate some of the food from our big dinner. I helped her put up some of her Christmas decorations. Every year she buys a new decoration, this year was Mary's donkey for her nativity scene.
I hope you are having a nice time, it is getting colder here. It snowed a little bit yesterday and the roads were icy coming home. It was kind of scary but we drove very slowly and made it home fine! I hope it snows more soon so I can play outside!!
I miss all of you very much! Love, Bea
P.S. I need to exercise like Ted is doing, maybe I will start soon.

A FANTASIC DAY WITH CRISTINA AND FABIO

Dear friends,
yesterday I met Fabio and Cristina, they are twins. We went to their grandfather’s farmhouse and I was very excited because I like the countryside very much!
The landscape was very beautiful and I could breath a wonderful fresh air even if the temperature was a little cold.
There were very tall olive trees. Cristina told me that many farmers depend on olive oil production for their living. I also saw a very strange small tree. Its fruits were yellow and looked like strange lemons, but I was said it was a quince tree. People make a very tasty marmalade with its fruits.
I also met their dogs. Two of them were huge and wanted to bite me, but Cristina and Fabio saved me!
When we got back home we ate a fantastic dish of spaghetti. It was very yummy: Cristina could hardly restrain me because I wanted to eat up spaghetti at once, (you know, the fresh air of countryside whet my appetite), while she wanted to take a photo!

I’m glad I’ve met these two fantastic friends because they’re very kind to me and I'm having a great time with them.

What about you? What’s Bea doing?
We sent our parcel last Thursday and I wrote you a Christmas card (Cristina and Fabio helped me!)

I love you very much !

Ted