Happy Thanksgiving. This year we celebrated with just our family at home....nice and quiet and much needed. The above picture is our annual try-to-take-an-automatic Thanksgiving picture. Not bad....we used Emma's monkey by the camera as the focal point. We had never cooked a turkey before....and my hubby got a 23 pounder!! He loves the leftovers and turkey sandwiches. So I used my mom's brine recipe and it soaked all night....it turned out delicious as did the stuffing and gravy and sides! We were quite pleased with ourselves and definitely stuffed!!! The girls enjoyed watching some of the Macys Day Parade and then we had some fun art projects. This year I thought of making turkey puppets for them to play with out of paper plates. So we each did our hand and the girls colored them....I cut out and attached Popsicle sticks to. They love them and we have a book they love called the Five Silly Turkeys...and since we are now a family of five we used our names in the story...see video below!! Then I had them color leafs I printed and we did our annual Thankful Tree...although a bit differently this year. We made a tree on the wall and attached the leaves. Angel was thankful for School (so sweet) and Emma!! Then Emma said she was thankful for Angelica and Blues Clues...made us laugh so hard!!! I save the thankful leaves for each year so we can look back on them later. The girls were not to sure about the whole stuffing the turkey experience and did not really like the big turkey either....Emma kept saying "stinky". Silly girls. Caitlin had made us some place cards this year so THANK YOU...we didn't have to make those. Hard to believe Michaela's "first" holiday has already come and gone!!! We enjoyed looking through pictures of this past year and making our annual Thankful poster which we hang up with the others to look at all year long......Hope you and yours had a great Turkey Day!!
Happy Thanksgiving. This year we celebrated with just our family at home....nice and quiet and much needed. The above picture is our annual try-to-take-an-automatic Thanksgiving picture. Not bad....we used Emma's monkey by the camera as the focal point. We had never cooked a turkey before....and my hubby got a 23 pounder!! He loves the leftovers and turkey sandwiches. So I used my mom's brine recipe and it soaked all night....it turned out delicious as did the stuffing and gravy and sides! We were quite pleased with ourselves and definitely stuffed!!! The girls enjoyed watching some of the Macys Day Parade and then we had some fun art projects. This year I thought of making turkey puppets for them to play with out of paper plates. So we each did our hand and the girls colored them....I cut out and attached Popsicle sticks to. They love them and we have a book they love called the Five Silly Turkeys...and since we are now a family of five we used our names in the story...see video below!! Then I had them color leafs I printed and we did our annual Thankful Tree...although a bit differently this year. We made a tree on the wall and attached the leaves. Angel was thankful for School (so sweet) and Emma!! Then Emma said she was thankful for Angelica and Blues Clues...made us laugh so hard!!! I save the thankful leaves for each year so we can look back on them later. The girls were not to sure about the whole stuffing the turkey experience and did not really like the big turkey either....Emma kept saying "stinky". Silly girls. Caitlin had made us some place cards this year so THANK YOU...we didn't have to make those. Hard to believe Michaela's "first" holiday has already come and gone!!! We enjoyed looking through pictures of this past year and making our annual Thankful poster which we hang up with the others to look at all year long......Hope you and yours had a great Turkey Day!!
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