Our Thanksgiving
We had a great time at Tug & Regina’s for Thanksgiving! Thank you so much for having us over! We had so much fun, that I never even got my camera out! Can you believe that?Tug deep fried the turkey and it was delicious, just like last year! Regina’s sweet potatoes were super yummy! And I ate WAY too many rolls!
The adults had fun playing euchre and sequence. Regina & I winning each round!! I’m not competitive, by the way. 😉
The kids each made oreo and pine cone turkeys that turned out so cute! Regina & I ended up helping the kids with the pine cone turkeys since the feathers needed a bit of hot glue to stay put…
The pine cones came from our very own backyard. I had bought some at Michael’s while forgetting the fact that we live amidst many pine trees… Silly me. I came home and hubby said, “You didn’t actually BUY pine cones did you!” I replied, “Uuuummmm…. Ooopppss! Yep, I did… I’ll take them back!”
After all the pokes from the pine cones, I am now wondering if store bought pine cones are less poky than the wild ones? 🙂
Wishing you…
To all my visitors, friends and family… May God shower each and every one of you with many blessings! And may you all have a very Happy and Peaceful Thanksgiving!
Thank you for all the graces and blessings. You have bestowed upon us, spiritual and temporal: our faith and religious heritage. Our food and shelter, our health, the loves we have for one another, our family and friends.
Dear Father, in Your infinite generosity, please grant us continued graces and blessing throughout the coming year.
This we ask in the name of Jesus, your son and our brother. Amen.
Gobble, Gobble…
Last night after dinner we made the cutest little Turkey snacks out of Double Stuf Oreo cookies, malt balls, and candy corn!
My mom would die if she knew I fed this kind of stuff to my kids… In fact I recently ran into her at the grocery store and started covering up the yummy treats junk in my cart so she wouldn’t see it!
In case one of my many siblings shows you this post… Don’t worry mom, I only let them have one each…
So get ready Sugar & Boo, we are bringing all the leftover junk ingredients with us tomorrow!
They are SO easy to make. And only took a total of maybe 5 minutes!
Directions:
– Take 1 oreo apart. This will be the base.
– Place the whole oreo on its side on the base, so that it sticks to white of the oreo.
– In front of the oreo on its side, place a malted-milk ball for the turkeys head.
– Place candy corn, points down, in between the oreo cookie that is standing on it’s side.
– We added a piece of twizzler (left over from the All Saints Party) as well.
Now, I am off to make this yummy treat for tomorrow!
This is what happens…
…by 6 o’clock pm, if someone plays instead of actually napping.
Yum… I can’t wait!
| You Are Mashed Potatoes |
 Ordinary, comforting, and more than a little predictable You’re the glue that holds everyone together. |
| You Are Apple Pie |
 You’re the perfect combo of comforting and traditional. You prefer things the way you’ve always known them. You’ll admit that you’re old fashioned, and you don’t see anything wrong with that. Your tastes and preferences are classic. And classic never goes out of style. Those who like you crave security. |
Our Tree of Thanksgiving
Making our Thankful Tree yesterday was such fun! First the boys headed outside to find a few branches to use and while the girls gathered rocks to fill the vase with. In the meantime I printed off this leaf template and set out the watercolors and paintbrushes. The kids didn’t waste any time getting started! 🙂
They were all very focused on painting the leaves.
Captain was especially concerned with making sure he used fall colors, and lots of them.
After the leaves had dried, they all told me the different things they are thankful for, while I wrote them down. We didn’t have enough leaves for all the things for which we are thankful!! Then we taped hung the leaves on our “tree”. It turned out great!
Thank you again Meredith for the idea!
Poem to St. Elizabeth
Enthroned amid the heavenly throng,
Be gracious to accept the praises
We offer you in cheerful song.
As you from home and hearth were driven
And forced in direst want to roam,
So now direct us lonely exiles
And help us reach our heavenly home.
You practiced poverty: enrich us
With heaven’s choicest gifts secure;
You daily mortified your body:
Help us to keep our bodies pure.
The luring world and wily Satan
You overcame by watchful prayers;
Teach us with steadfast heart to conquer
Our enemies’ deceitful snares.
To God the Father highest glory
And to his only Son, our Lord.
Together with the Holy Spirit,
As years and ages endless run.
The Spirit of Christmas Award!
I have been awarded “The Spirit of Christmas Award” by Amy over at Knit Together in Love. Thank you Amy, your so sweet!
What is the Spirit of Christmas you ask?
Quite simply it is those that have a generous and giving nature. Those who care about others. Those who have a kind word to say or a broad shoulder to lean on in the times that others need that. Those who display the “Spirit of Christmas”.
Oh my! What an honor… Since the Christmas Season is still a couple weeks away, I’d like to pass the award to three sweet ladies who, unlike me, truly deserve this award:
Trina at Merry Menagerie
Mededith at Sweetness and Light
Heather at These Thy Gifts
Explanation of this award can be found here.
“Thankful Tree” Project
I love Meredith’s idea for making a Thankful Tree!
The watercolored leaves are such a great idea. I have sent my boys outside to find some branches and the girls are collecting rocks to fill the vase with, while I get the watercolors and leaves ready…
I will let you know how it turns out!
The “Annual” Open House
The Open House a very good friend of mine hosted for me Friday night, was SO MUCH FUN!! This is the 3rd year we have done this and it has become an annual event. This year, it was scheduled from 6-10 pm, but by the time I packed up and finished visiting. It was 1:30am… Hubby called me at 5 minutes to 2 to see if I was coming home… I was right around the corner! I was exhausted Saturday, but it was well worth it!
My goal, this year, was to sell enough of my Cookie Lee inventory to purchase a certain Christmas Gift for my girls… I was able to go and purchase it Saturday morning (Costco had it in stock with a great cash & carry price)! I won’t tell you what it is, but you can click this link to get a sneek peek if you’d like. I can’t wait to give it to them. They are going to LOVE playing with it!
My friends house looked BEAUTIFUL! She the most creative person I know… I wish I had even HALF of her talents and creativeness! Her house looked so beautiful I just had to snap a few pictures. Being right before Thanksgiving, she decorated with a fall theme, using candles, pumpkins, and lots of pretty leaves. My favorite thing she did was use gold spray paint to paint all different sizes of pumpkins! They looked AWESOME! She said it was so easy and that she got the idea from Martha Stewart. I would never think to do something like that, but it really looked quite festive and elegant.
Another idea she got from a Martha magazine was for a Luscious Four-Layer Pumpkin Cake. It was so YUMMY and looked wonderful. You can see it in the above picture. I think I am going to have to give this recipe a try. The Pampered Chef Chocolate Chip Sensation was a huge hit as well, and was gone in no time.
Anyways, I am still trying to get orders processed and everything put away… as well as decide just what I am going to order. 😉
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