Thanksgiving break happenings

 We had a very full Thanksgiving break! 

We had our own little Thanksgiving meal, decorated the house for Christmas, went to visit my mom, then stayed with my brother, and went to spend Thanksgiving with Tim's family. We stopped by Razorback stadium and checked out the Christmas lights at the Fayetteville and Bentonville squares on our way home!

It was my first outings since my surgery.

I did okay, but I'm still really sore.

I'm thankful for so many things and so happy that we had a wonderful holiday!

C Girl was such a huge helper this year!

We love Tim's tradition of hanging the Rudolph characters on our entry way chandelier.

C Girl helped with with making our pies this year!

Pecan pie is my favorite!

I love the glow of the Christmas tree!

We roasted Cornish game hens for our Thanksgiving meal.

Hitting the road to visit family!

This boy wanted biscuits and gravy since he had been sick for a few days prior.

Silly kids!

I love all of these guys!

Jessica and I went to watch Mockingjay Part 2! I'm so glad that we got to do something together!!!

We had a fun time visiting with grandma and Pop Pop!

Sweet cousins!

C Girl loves watching the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade!

We took some photos before we all went separate ways for Thanksgiving meals!

On our drive, we stopped by to photograph the home site where Tim's granny and grandad had lived. He has so many memories there!

B Boy played outside the entire time at Thanksgiving. He ended up being completely filthy! He had dirt all up and down his jeans and shirt!

There was a big spread of food and accidentally burned crescent rolls! 

Everything was good though!

the line for food!

Our annual Sparacino family photo!

We saw the glow from Razorback stadium miles away! 

We decided to go and check it out!

We drove down Dickson street in Fayetteville and the Lights of the Ozarks.

It was raining so we didn't get out, but we still got to enjoy the beautiful lights!

I loved the Razorback shaped lights!

We also stopped to see the lights at the Bentonville square! 

They added double the lights this year and I love it!

Thanksgiving 2014

One of our favorite holiday traditions is to cook a Thanksgiving dinner for our family of four.

We cooked a turkey, made crockpot dressing, gravy from the turkey drippings, mashed sweet potatoes, roasted brussel sprouts, deviled eggs, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie!

We eat on our china, light a candle and we all tell something very thoughtful that we are thankful for that year. It is just peaceful and I love it!

My favorite part of the holidays, besides the food, is spending time with family.

We drove down on Wednesday to visit with my side of the fam. 

Our first stop was to my mom and dad's house.

Mom made us lunch and we talked and played a few card games. 

Everyone LOVED playing Bingo and it looks like that may be a stocking stuffer this year!

After leaving mom's, we headed over to my brother and SIL's house.

We had a wonderful time visiting!

Jessica and I went to see Mockingjay part 1. It was awesome! We had so much fun laughing and singing to Taylor Swift's new CD. I miss living close to this girl!

These three kiddos have a precious bond. I'm so thankful for that!

I'm also thankful for Jessica taking a quick photo of the four of us. 

I feel like I'm never in many holiday photos!

Of course, we watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. C Girl gets so excited about the parade!  I love that because I always have loved the parade!

We left their house on Thursday morning to head down to have Thanksgiving with the Sparacino family!

It is a substantially bigger gang. There are usually 30-35 of us!

 B Boy had to have a turkey leg!

Tim's brother lives in Texas and is not always able to make the drive up for the holidays, so it has been a few years since all of Tim's siblings have been together!

Our neice, Khelli took this family photo this year.

This is only the third time to have a huge family photo.

Below, we took one in 2009 before we lost Nan and Granny and then we took one last year at Christmas.

It's a treasure to have photos with your family!