What a blessed time we have had this Thanksgiving weekend!
We enjoyed preparing for some sweet friends to join us for a meal on Thanksgiving day!
We planned a pretty traditional meal!
Roasted chicken, pork roasts, mashed sweet potatoes, green beans with bacon and garlic, stuffing, cranberry applesauce, orange bread with cranberry orange butter, and a pear pomegranate salad.
YUM!
Addie Mae also made an apple and pumpkin pie for dessert!
Our friends brought some yummy additions to the meal, and these Brussels sprouts were a huge hit!
We had such a nice day being together!
The kids played games all afternoon!
The guys have been hunting some this weekend, and on Friday they did quite a bit.
The littles and I had a slow, easy morning!
Kayla and the babies joined us after lunch, and we spent the afternoon together while the guys hunted and the babies napped!
Eliza told us on Friday that River was not a boy.
“He a girl, Mom!”
Of course I corrected her, but then she said, “No, he a girl, because look at his eyelashes!”
Hard to argue with her about his eyelashes!!
He is ADORABLE!!!
Pretty soon it was time for another spread of food!
This fruit salsa with cinnamon sugar chips made out of tortillas was a HIT!
I did not get good photos on Friday!
See those toothpicks in the bottom of the photo below?
Those are pitted dates, stuffed with a roasted/salted almond, wrapped in bacon and baked until the bacon was done.
SERIOUSLY.
They are SO yummy!
I think I ate four of those.
And right past that in the photo below?
Peppers stuffed with loaded guacamole.
Yes, Kayla has ruined me with loaded guacamole.
She puts all kinds of stuff in it!
Including bacon.
Good grief, it is SO good!
At one point during the holidays each year, Addie Mae makes us these chocolate covered pomegranate arils.
You MUST make these!
They are my favorite!
Kay’s (as we call David, Kayla and the babies), have been dealing with impetigo (a skin infection), which is why sweet Ellie Joy was wearing a band-aid across her cute little nose!
The guys were hunting when we started eating dinner on Friday – because all kinds of little people were needing their dinner!
Then the photographer (that’s me) was very busy serving everyone eating her own huge plate of food, that she did not take anymore photos!
Sorry to my guys, no photos of you all!
The weather this weekend has been beautiful!
It was in the 60’s on Friday!
Crazy!
But beautiful!
We have had such a nice relaxing pace, and have enjoyed being together so much.
Tomorrow it’s back to reality!
But it is a reality I love.
Hope you all have had a blessed Thanksgiving weekend too!
