Thanksgiving 2018

I always look forward to Thanksgiving every year not just because of the food but because of the amount of time I get to spend with my family. We spent this holiday week at the movies. We’ve never been at the movies this much before, but I enjoyed it. We watched Fantastic Beasts, Wreck It Ralph and Creed II !  Haidyn loves going to the movies now which is just a plus to her movie taste! I’m sure that watching a movie on thanksgiving will be one of our new traditions.  

 

Thanksgiving day , MIL and I bundled up to walk/ run the Fernley Turkey Trot with the wonderful KAIA ladies.  She ran, I walked snail speed.  We planned a simple dinner menu with a ton of easy appetizers for us to snack on all day long. Does it get better than endless apps?   We all spent the day in comfy clothes with exception of Haidyn dressing up for pictures. Oh yes, we faked those pictures pretty well. No mini-vacation time is complete without sweats.We’re finally getting the hang of relaxing during this time of year.

 After spending a few days in Wadsworth , we sped back home to put up our Christmas tree! Oh yes, the entire house went from Fall to Winter in 2.5 seconds. Haidyn and Frankie were all about this decor change.Can you tell they absolutely love this time of the year?

 

Thanksgiving 2017

The holidays are always so stressful for me. The plan leading up to the holidays seems so seamless, executing the plan is another story. I usually forget something important for the dinner, there is a rip the outfit that I’ve chosen for family pictures or someone ends up fighting . I dread the holidays because of the last thing. It takes everything in me to keep sane during the holidays but the fighting just sends me through the roof and has be questioning why even celebrate in the first place. But this year, was different. Holy shit, was it different! For the first time in what seemed like forever we had the perfect thanksgiving WEEKEND. Oh yeah, you read that right . I had the perfect thanksgiving weekend. It was everything that you’ve ever wanted from the holiday season and more.

We planned the food perfectly, we made sure to set sometime aside for family and we ate until our hearts and bellies were more than content. There was no fighting whatsoever throughout the entire weekend , that even includes us not fighting with Haidyn (that’s a rarity since my little angel has the temper of her Daddy and patience like her Mama). We headed out to Hootsee and Papa's Wednesday after work. Haidyn was already counting down the days to see them since last week.



Our first order of business was prepping all of our food the night before Thanksgiving, eating all the cool whip just because and getting ready for a nice 4 mile run . Don't get your hopes up, Waymon is retired from running so I ran with my MIL. I grew up in Fernley, but I don't think I've ever really appreciated my little home town until recently. My 4 mile run was beautiful. I wish that Rory was behaved enough to run it with me.

After our run , we visited Haidyn's great grandma for a pre-thanksgiving snack fest. She was so excited to be out in Nixon with some of her cousins. Any time this kid can get outside and run a little she will take advantage of it , but I'm glad that she does. After our visit, we started our own thanksgiving . We had all the fixings you could imagine and then some. I personally ate all of my FIL's ceviche until there was no more. Yeah I overindulged, so what?

 Everyone had a plate of food (maybe more) and sat down to watch the Chargers kick some Cowboy ass. ( I should also warn you that I'm a football fan now, but not a fan of the Chargers sorry Jon!!) Speaking of Jon, my Thanksgiving was made when I got that surprise face-time from him. I haven't facetimed with him in such a long time, I almost forgot what he looked like. :)

We headed back home on Saturday to catch up on the house chores we've been slacking on, but also to lay around the house even more. Sunday we got the courage to finally go outside and do something! The weather was awful, but we managed to watch Coco. If you haven't seen it, YOU MUST GO NOW!

After a weekend of actual relaxation, family bonding and eating non-stop I didn't want to go back to work. Can you blame me? The holidays are so stressful, but I'm so glad that I got this time to actually spend time with my family. I hope your Thanksgiving was just as wonderful.

Thanksgiving 2016

The suitable title for this blog is “The No Picture Thanksgiving” but since I took some pictures that can’t really be the title. Now, with that being said I took almost no pictures this past weekend. I had 4 ½ days with my babes and didn’t bother to take pictures. Waymon says it’s because we were enjoying our time as a family and I think he’s right. I’m usually always behind the camera trying to capture every moment that I’m never IN the moment. The little pictures I did take captured my girls at their best . Playing together and having the time of their lives. 

 

This holiday season was probably the best we’ve ever had. We ate too much,  we laughed , danced like crazy people, decorated the house for Christmas and enjoyed each others company. We even woke up to a little snow Sunday morning which made my entire weekend. Because if you know me I love a little snow all thanks to GG . ( Can I also get an amen for the GG revival I totally binged for 6 hours).  This has been the best weekend ever! I’m hoping Christmas is this relaxing!

Happy Monday!

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Week in Pictures | Thanksgiving 2015

This holiday season I wanted to focus more on presence than anything else. The phones were on silent at our home while we gathered to eat too much fun and really appreciate one another. We laughed so hard at our favorite TV shows and movies.  We spent Thanksgiving morning at my in-laws for our lunch. My mother in law ( MIL) whipped up the best Thanksgiving meal, which even included her homemade cranberry sauce.  (We’re total pinterest freaks so holidays are HUGE for us! Just so you know. ) I left feeling stuffed.

Haidyn was still feeling under the weather until we got home for our Thanksgiving dinner so she didn’t get to enjoy too much at my in laws. But once we arrived at home she was a completely new person and she “made” our thanksgiving dinner.

The rest of our weekend consisted of us scooping out the late black Friday sales . We were on the hunt for flannels for the family for our family picture at Kohl's and everything else for the family. Alright, you got me most of the things we bought were for Haidyn but you get the picture. She loved hanging out with her Lola and me while we went shopping. She’s a girl after my own shopaholic heart. We spared the details to Waymon, just so he didn’t have a heart attack.  

turkey soup w/ turkey stuffing dumpling

 After our shopping shenanigans, we spent the rest of our time at home, enjoying our beautiful Christmas tree and creating new recipes out of our thanksgiving leftovers (btw turkey soup w/ turkey stuffing dumpling is BOMB) .  Bring on the countdown to Christmas!