Thanksgiving

Wow! I never got around to posting about Thanksgiving.  Dax and I leave the day after and are gone for 10 days getting in a big chunk of continuing education hours. As you can imagine, it's crazy at the office when we get back. And this time of the year is always full of activities anyway.

So, we were short a few people this year for Thanksgiving. Dax's parents had an emergency come up in the extended family so couldn't be here with us. Their absence was definitely noticed. Thankfully things there are better now.

Kirsten and Grandma made these cute little turkeys.

I didn't manage to get it in the picture, but ine if those little turkeys has his head on upside down. Poor thing.....then we ate him.

After she did such a good job on the turkey's, we put Kirsten in charge of hors de vours.

She's really just slicing Little Debbie snacks. I guess we'll give her an 'E' for effort. 

I did make these crackers this year. I like to try something new each year.

They taste delicious and are super easy to make. It's a Ritz cracker wrapped in bacon with a little brown sugar on top. Then you put them in a 250 degree oven and bake them for (here's the kicker) 2 HOURS. But, trust me, they're worth it!!

All in all, we enjoyed ourselves. We ate too much, but the food and the company were good.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving (those that celebrate, anyway.)


We had a wonderful day. The Grandparents came and there was enough food to feed a small village I think. We ate from the time we got up until about 5:30 in the afternoon. But it was all so good!!


Aunt 'Manda also came and the girls all got their hair done....


Here's Kirsten's new haircut:

and then we all got our eyebrows waxed. She's so nice to try to keep us all beautiful!!


It was a really great day and a good time was had by all. I just love Thanksgiving and having the family together. It's may favorite holiday.


Oh, and as always, I'm thankful to be married to a stud like Dax! LOL

Hope you all had a pleasant day with those that you love.

Giving Thanks

We had a great Thanksgiving Day.


It was at our house again this year, and as usual there was an insane amount of food to eat.


There was a lot of family with us and this year we invited some friends over too.


We all had a good time with lots of chatting and laughing. One of the high lights of the day was when I asked Dax to see if he could get the chocolate fountain going. I had already poured chocolate in there but it wouldn't move it to the top. So he pulled the cover off to see if he could get the mechanism spinning. Well, he did get it spinning if only long enough to splatter everything in the vicinity with chocolate. It was like something out of the movies with the chocolate getting slung everywhere.


Aaahhh, good times. Good times.



Unfortunatel I didn't think to take pictures!!


Hope yours was a joy too.