Good News and Bad News

I always like to start with the bad news first. My computer has broke down yet again. So I'm out of commission for awhile and I guess I'll start off with Thanksgiving day once I get everything back again. The good news? We are expecting Baby Edgerton #5. I'm guessing the due date is between June 29th and July 4th. We are very excited to watch our family grow. The boys like to let me know what the baby's name should be. The names change often and some are pretty funny. Shelton and Alexander are the most recent from Dylan. Both boys names in his class. You see.. we don't discuss girl names in our household because it seems too unlikely. :-) I am all out of ideas for boy names. Any ideas out there for names that go with Dylan, Caden, Jackson and Gavin?

The Turkey Pit (11/26/08)

This was my first year making Thanksgiving dinner...well, with my mom's help of course. In the past we have always gone to family or we have gone to a Thanksgiving buffet because my kids were too few and too young for the hassel and all the major leftovers that would be left to just Chad and I. I had it easy this year because we cooked our turkey underground in a pit overnight.
Some friends of ours in our ward...Buckey and Marcey have done this in their backyard for 3 years now.
We first cleaned out the turkey and then rubbed 4 cubes of butter throughtout it and threw in some garlic and seasoning salt. Then we wrapped it in two turkey oven bags, wrapped it in foil, and then in chicken wire. We made an "E" for Edgerton so we would know which was ours. There were 24 turkeys in the pit this year.

After the turkeys were lowered beams were put across the pit and then plywood on top.

Bucky and a few others are putting dirt on top of the plywood wherever smoke is seen to keep it all in.

We haven't had rain for the last 98 days until last night and it started to rain again so they decided to try and put a tarp on top because the rain was suppose to be heavy. Here's Chad covering it up. We brought our turkeys over at 10pm and will pick it up at 10am tomarrow morning.