Two Days of Thanksgiving

This is the way to do it. Instead of cramming two huge and delicious meals into one day, it's easier on the tummy (and stamina) to break it up into two days.

Day one (Thanksgiving day) was spent at Grammi and Grandpa's:

The whole family

Addison and Daddy :-)


With NaNa and PaPa

With Grammi and Grandpa

After lunch at Grammi and Grandpa's, we headed home to decorate our tree. While Addy napped, Mike and I put the tree up and started hanging ornaments, careful to save plenty of ornaments for Addison to hang.

Yeah, she really wasn't interested. In fact, this is about as excited as she got:

Which turned into this. (Lack of interest from both Addy AND Daddy... in favor of The Polar Express):


Oh, well... I enjoyed decorating. And here's the finished product:

Day TWO. At GaGa and Grandma's house.

Me with sweet baby Annalie

Micah and Addy watching Elf and eating snacks. Too cute.

Working hard in the kitchen.

So funny. I guess she was hungry and could tell the food was almost ready.

All the "big kids" at the table. Now that there's a baby, they're the big kids.

My dear, dear Grandma.

I don't remember Annalie being fussy, hmmm...

Miguel, Adam and some crazy lady with a baby.

And... the grand finale. La creme de la creme. The SHOWSTOPPER. A food SO worth blogging about, it beat out bourbon glazed turkey, home made pumpkin and pecan pie, even my very own sweet potato bake that I thought went over quite well. Yes, it is that good.



Oh, yes I did. I MADE these delicious little tastes of heaven. I got the recipe through a blog through a blog through a blog. (I follow Julie's blog... she follows this blog. Who follows THIS blog. Yes, yes... I am a blog stalker. Especially of food blogs.) Anyway, these Crunchy Caramel Reeses Bars were as good as they look and sound. The recipe is here.

Yep, this year's Thanksgiving was a good one. Still very thankful. Only now I have the taste of Thanksgiving food every time I burp. Oh, I'm sorry. Maybe I should have kept that to myself.