Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  I have so much to be thankful for... my amazing family and friends, foreigner, health, happiness, the experience of living in Sweden, and everything I have been so lucky to have in my life.  I'm sad that I am not able to spend thanksgiving with my family but being away really helps me realize how blessed and thankful I am for the life God has given me.

This is not my first thanksgiving without my parents.... I remember one thanksgiving that they were in Europe and we stayed with my Nana.  We had thanksgiving at my Aunt Linda's house and my parents called and told us they had hamburgers for thanksgiving dinner!  This is also not my first thanksgiving without my sister.  Michelle was in Italy a few years ago.  It isn't even my first thanksgiving out of the country because we celebrated thanksgiving in Costa Rica with the Havlicek's a few years ago, but it is my first thanksgiving without my brother Christopher.. unless you count before he was born which I don't remember!  I am so thankful that I have been able to have so many different thanksgivings and that I have always been able to spend them with the people I love.

I was going to make some thanksgiving food for Foreigner and I but I decided it was too much work for two people.  Instead I made my Nana's german potato salad, which I love and it always reminds me of home.

I hope you all have a blessed and thankful Thanksgiving and if you are spending it at my Mom's house I will be able to see you through video chat!

Some past Thanksgivings:

My mom is never in pictures because she is always taking them!

Happy Thanksgiving at my house with Michelle, Nana, Aunt Cindy, Mom, Me, Julie, Tony, Emily, Uncle David, and My Dad.

I don't even know if this was thanksgiving but he sure makes a cute indian 

(native american... whatever is correct to say)!

Thanksgiving was a lot warmer for us in Costa Rica!

"When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around."
-- Willie Nelson

Blizzardy Pizza

Sweden has been quite snowy the last few days and yesterday was pretty much a blizzard.  We had no food in the apartment and neither of us felt like braving the snow to go to the store... so what were we going to do?  After much anguish I had the idea for a pizza... little did I know that we would be walking there to pick it up instead of having it delivered. After hearing this I remembered that I hadn't had any pizza that I liked in Sweden since I got here... but what the heck I was starving! The "Pizza Express" is right at the end of the apartment complex, usually a two or three minute walk.... but it was more like ten minutes in the blizzard.  The pizza place had an "american theme" or at least it thought it did.  The "Chicago" pizza had TUNA on it!!  I have never seen a Chicago pizza with tuna... yuck.  Luckily for me though they had pan pizza, almost everywhere else here the pizza is really thin.  We decided on the "Dakota" and it was delicious!  It has mozzarella cheese, salami, bacon, and red peppers... it was definitely the best pizza I have had in Sweden.. by far!  I guess it was worth the walk in the blizzard.

Me with the pizza in the blizzard!

The American themed menu

Oh yeah there were olives too... I took mine off though

"Cola Light" in a glass bottle.  I love them!