Today is American Thanksgiving and there are people in the southeast who will be celebrating.

Connor Gosen moved to Steinbach from Excelsior, Minnesota in August 2011 to attend University and decided he liked it and wanted to stay, especially after getting married to his wife, Jasmine, in April 2013. Gosen says the first year he celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving it felt too soon and he feels Thanksgiving is also a bigger, all day celebration in the United States.

"There was still football on Sunday, thank goodness," laughs Gosen. "But we got together with Jasmine's grandparents and her mom's side of the family. It was good. It wasn't an all day event, but it was certainly a big meal, giving thanks, hang out afterwards and at the core it was still the same. From what I've noticed out here, Thanksgiving is bigger in the U.S. I feel that, at least with my family and extended family, it's a day event, not just one meal."

Gosen and his wife will be spending this American Thanksgiving in Minnesota. He says it's the first time they've been able to be with his family for Thanksgiving in four years adding people at work thought he was joking when he mentioned he would be going home for Thanksgiving.

"I got an email from my aunt recently," notes Gosen. "We're supposed to arrive at 11:30 a.m. and lunch is at noon, because football starts at noon. So we'll eat for maybe an hour or an hour and a half. We got down for our afternoon nap and then there's another game on at 3:30, so we'll watch that. We'll have countless pies and then we have supper together. We kind of reheat everything [from lunch], bring out a few more desserts, a bit more stuffing. Then we watch more football, we have movies going on. There's a lot of naps. It's a great day."

Gosen adds this year he is most thankful for all the help he received in the tedious process of preparing his immigration papers to be sent off.