Thanksmas

Yes, yes I am guilty of it. The Christmas celebrations seem to start earlier and earlier every year, and in my case well before Thanksgiving. But to me Thanksgiving is all about giving thanks, being with family AND getting into the Christmas spirit. It goes hand and hand if you ask me! So here is a recap of our past week; a week I'm now referring to as "Thanksmas"...

The Thanksgiving meal is by far my favorite holiday meal of the year. Better than the Christmas roast and better than the Easter ham in my opinion! And my very very favorite part of the Thanksgiving meal? Don't laugh, but it's the canned cranberry jelly! Not that it is necessarily the best tasting thing on my plate, but I love mixing it in all everything else..the turkey, the potatoes, the stuffing-yum!! We alternate celebrating Thanksgiving between my parents and Todd's parents and this year it was a Garner Thanksgiving for us. I brought the stuffing and a pecan pie and, of course, the cutest kids in town!

Little hands love to be big helpers!

Best. Stuffing. Ever. Thank you, Paula Deen.

Family snapshots...

Face-Timing with Jody at the Hancock Thanksgiving in Memphis!

So thankful for another year of health and happiness with my beautiful family!

The long weekend continued with decorating our trees, getting lights on the house and baking cookies for our first cookie swap of the year. Ross is being surprisingly good with the ornaments and other decorations and hasn't destroyed anything...yet.

How many people can say the get to put up Christmas lights shirtless? Only in Florida!

My favorite cookie recipe for the season, red velvet cookie sandwiches.

Last but not least was a gingerbread house decorating party at Bridget's favorite big girl friends, Grace and Ellie's house. She did a great job this year on the house and we had so much fun with all the big and little girls!

Hope your Thanksmas was as good as ours!