Thanks be to God for another memorable Thanksgiving. Our 2025 Turkey Day was spent joyfully engaging in some of our family’s favorite traditions. In hope that my kids can look back on this reflection decades down the road, here is a glimpse of this past Thursday…

Thanksgiving 2025 was an awesome day for my family.

Speaking of traditions, let’s start with the most fruitless one. Once again, I made the lame effort to justify my overeating by hitting Snap Fitness at 4 a.m. I went through a routine with anaerobic and aerobic components before busting out of that gym as quickly as possible because I had a parade to watch.

I found myself at Snap Fitness at the Ponderosa Village area at 4 a.m. on Thanksgiving. It was my pathetic attempt to make up for the calories I would eat later that day.

Upon my arrival back at home, I woke up Sloan and Beau and allowed them to come into our bedroom to watch the 2025 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. By the time the parade started at 5:30 a.m., they may or may not have finagled their way into our bed. We enjoyed our 3.5-hour tradition thoroughly as I took a liking to the high school band that performed a “Christmas Vacation” arrangement while Sidney gravitated toward the Broadway acts. However, the live performance of “Golden” definitely stole the show for Beau!

Beau watches the performance of “Golden” during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.

Once the parade concluded, we headed to River Park Square in downtown Spokane. Our ultimate destination within the mall was the AMC Theater. We caught the 10:30 a.m. showing of “Zootopia 2.” It was super cute and the experience was only amplified by the reclining seats and delicious popcorn.

Sloan and Beau settle in for “Zootopia 2” at the AMC Theaters in River Park Square. It was a cute movie!

After admiring the magical 50-foot tree in the atrium of River Park Square, we headed up north to my parents’ house. We were the first ones to arrive and passed an hour or so by watching the Chiefs vs. Cowboys game. Soon enough, my siblings and their families were over. My brother staged a Thanksgiving word scramble/picture riddle challenge for everyone to participate in that was super fun (congrats to my wife for winning!). Once the dust settled on that friendly competition, we ate the Thanksgiving meal. All I can say—and you just have to trust me because I am being 100% genuine—is that it was the best Thanksgiving feast I ever had.

Welcome to the Reser family Thanksgiving table! The meal was absolute perfection.

As is custom for the Resers, my family prefers to wait 1-2 hours after the meal before eating dessert. We spent that grace period chatting in the living room before converging on the different pies in the kitchen (apple, pumpkin, peanut butter). As per usual, I didn’t think twice and opted for pumpkin.

My slice of pumpkin pie—I went a little generous on the cool whip.

We then capitalized on the sugar high by playing a game of What Do You Meme? It was another competition won by my specific Reser family unit as Sloan came out on top. After some more socializing with our big group, we departed back to the Spokane Valley around 8:30 p.m.

Congrats to Sloan on winning our “What Do You Meme?” family game session.

By the time we arrived back at our house, we could not have felt more thankful. At the same time, I also felt guilt for how lucky our family is when so many others suffer. Please pray that my family finds an adequate way to give back in relation to the abundance of our blessings. Don’t Blink.

Past Thanksgiving Posts
Thanksgiving 2024
Thanksgiving 2023
Thanksgiving 2022
Thanksgiving 2021
Thankgiving 2019