Thanksgiving 2010

Our Thanksgiving at my parent's house:
Mom cooking
Family posing

And an outtake...(yep, that's my little head peeking out!)
L to R: Nephew Cameron, Sister Angela, Niece Chloe', Forrest's son Zac, and my Bro-in-Law-to-Be Forrest.
Cameron & Chloe'
Our little sweetie, Madelyn's First Thanksgiving!
Me & the Hubby
Mom's beautiful dining room

The Appetizer Pickle...(silly boy Mason)
Let's Eat!!!


Great pic of my Aunt Marla (who was visiting from CA), Mason, my Mom & Madelyn

Chloe' (not in a Snuggie, but looks that way!)

At Wayne's parents', I only managed to snap a few pictures of Mason by the pool...
(Who's kid is this? He looks HUGE!)

Turkey Leg

Just before Thanksgiving, I saw this plastic chicken leg in Mason's play shopping cart & just had to have a little fun with Madelyn. She was just beginning to be able to grasp things at the time, so I put it in her hand. She did try to eat it, of course, and I decided to call it a turkey leg in the spirit of Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving 2009

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with our families! My Mom (and my sister helped out) made a yummy traditional turkey dinner. After we stuffed ourselves, we exchanged Thanksgiving gifts, which is a little tradition in our family. Each person gets a gift (that is supposed to be used for the upcoming Christmas season)

Mason hugging a turkey

Mom & Angela in the kitchen
My Nephew Cameron, Mason & my Dad
My Niece, Chloe'
Time to eat!
This is what our family gave as gifts this year. I filled these jars with hot cocoa mix, marshmallows (or as Mason calls them, Smushmallows) mini chocolate chips, and crushed peppermint. (Mason helped crush the peppermint!) Then tied them with ribbon, added some jingle bells & an ornament~and voila! I also made one to keep & it was yummy! Wayne & I had it gone within a few days!
Mason's gift was this adorable little apron that his Mimi (my Mom) made for him!
Mason also got a gingerbread house kit (which he WAS happy about, although you can't tell from this picture!)
Wayne got a gift card
My sister with her boyfriend, Forrest and his son, Zack, opening their gifts.


The Saturday after Thanksgiving, we joined Wayne's family for a Thanksgiving meal. It was also yummy & we had fun visiting with family.
At Grandma & Grandpa's house:

Happy Thanksgiving

Just wanted to pop in and let you know I'm still around! After our electricity went off a week or so ago, our computer would not come back on! We are in the process of getting our hard drive out with all our pictures on it, while shopping for a new computer. Until then, I've been getting by with the laptop to check e-mail, etc.
So, as soon as I'm able, I'll be back to posting pictures!
Have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!

Thanksgiving 2008, Part 2

Maybe I'll get caught back up sometime soon!
Here's our Thanksgiving with Wayne's family. I didn't take as many pics as I should have~I'll blame it on the turkey & pie. After spending the day with my family, we headed out to spend the late afternoon/evening with my in-laws. so I was kinda drained by then. Mason had fun playing with his cousins, Lexi & Haley. I dumped out his toy bag that we had brought & there was a playing-frenzy! Of course the guys all engaged themselves in many games of pool while the ladies played with the kids & talked about plans for Christmas. Good family fun.

Thanksgiving 2008

We had a great Thanksgiving! We got to spend time with my Aunt Marla who was here visiting from California. And my Mom's dinner was exceptionally tasty this year!

I brought these little "acorns" that I made. I got the idea from Junk Mammas & thought they were so cute!




I also made these cranberry-walnut-apple tarts that look pretty disgusting in the picture, but were very good. They were supposed to come out of the cupcake liners & be a free-standing tart, but I accidently used too much cranberry & they were too messy to take out.



mom's beautiful table


My Mom, me, Grandma, and Aunt Marla


My niece, Chloe' with her Uncle Wayne

This is what it's all about...family scattered everywhere!

Just a couple of turkeys...

Chloe' licking the mixers

Isn't he dainty?


That weekend, we went to see the movie Four Christmases. We all LOVED it! Go see it! (can't beat my girl Reese!)

I Do Apologize...

...for turning my blog into a Winter Wonderland BEFORE Thanksgiving!!! I'm soooo against starting to celebrate one holiday before the other's over, but I'll admit I got sucked in by the cuteness of the "Cutest Blog on the Block" site again. I just went there to peruse the winter/Christmas backgrounds to see what I wanted to change to ON FRIDAY and kinda decided that I'd save myself the trouble of having to go back & pick it all out again. :) Of course then I HAD to jump on over to Scrapblog (my fave digi scrapbook site) to make a cute header to match my new background. It all just kinda snowballed. haha--get it?

This year I have just been in the Christmas Spirit early and I owe 98% of it to this. [the A-maz-ing Ali]
I've been creating a "December Daily" album to scrap on-the-fly during the busy month of December. I raided my scrap stash and pulled out EVERYTHING winter & Christmas a few weeks ago & have been happily creating while humming Christmas tunes to myself. It's almost ready to go & as soon as it's done, I'll post it on my other blog, Daily Chrysalis for you to check out.
I also think that this year will be so much fun with Mason! He's at a fun age to enjoy the season. So, just this once, I am full speed ahead into Christmas!

On Sunday, the weather was just [barely] warm enough for Wayne to grill hot dogs (as if it's Summertime!) so we all played in the backyard for a little while. Mason had fun running around & sliding while Wayne tried to throw a quick game of Cornhole.


Look at my new hat & mittens, Mommy!

He loves to slide on his belly!



Must...run!


If you remember the story-Wayne made the boards this Summer & just recently painted the hogs on. I think he did a great job. I love how they look like a graphic stamp.

Thanksgiving Number 2

Saturday we had Thanksgiving with Wayne's family. It was the first year that our families had thier get-togethers on different days, so it was really nice to be able to enjoy ourselves and not be rushed or really over-stuffed.
Mason had such a good time playing with his cousins and was very well-behaved, unlike these pictures show! I got to looking at them and it looks like he's being naughty!

"Mine!" (he doesn't say that yet, but I know he was thinking it!)...with Haley


playing with a baby doll


Leading Lexi around as if she Was a baby doll...


Wayne's sister, Amanda with Haley


Wayne's Mom (caught her off guard-oops) sister, and bro-in-law