- Gobble gobblE... -

Gobble 'til you wobble!  I absolutely LOVE Thanksgiving and all the fall festivities and preppity-prep that comes along with it!  We have some hardcore Thanksgiving week/Day and Black Friday traditions, and repeating/reveling in those each year is just my "piping hot & perfect" cup of tea!  FIRST of all, I swoon over all the adorable holiday artwork that comes home in the kids' school folders...

^^ Scarlett was so supa' proud of her "chicken mask" and wore it all around the house leading up to T-giving 2022.

 

Then!  It didn't stop with "school" artwork... Juliette started with a new babysitter for Mondays at the beginning of November [another much more elaborate post coming about this later, because I have to take a lot of minutes to brag on this ANGEL of a woman loves our lil' girl soooo so well!], and she came home the Monday of Thanksgiving week with this little gem. I literally almost cried. <3

We added Juli's little handprint to the Thanksgiving pumpkin this year [just wasn't quite brave enough to craft with a 2-month old last year, haha!]...

...dressed in our cheetah best to make some foam turkey crafts...

...and went to Grammy and Papa's house on Wednesday afternoon to help her start decorating the Thanksgiving meal table and also finish food prepping!

All.the.sudden it was Thanksgiving morning!  Our tradition of take-out Starbucks coffee shifted to brewing Starbucks coffee and hot chocolates at home...

...and our tradition of watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade shifted to Scarlett and Harper recording most of the parade on their new iPads and Juliette not really being interested in the TV program at all...

...but!  Praise be to God, one tradition stood strong, and that was browsing Black Friday ads!  While Juliette took her morning nap, the big kids cut out some items they saw that they wanted to add to their Christmas lists and glued them on a piece of construction paper to show Santa. ;) :)

The rest of Thanksgiving Day was spent in normal fashion: lunch with Brian's family and dinner with my family!  I only have these few pictures from the rest of the day, but it was time well spent with the people we love the most!

 

 

Feeling extra extra grateful this year for health, happiness, and the many, many blessings that surround us each day!!!  The family and friends that we love -- and are loved by, too -- are truly what I'm MOST thankful for!

 

Happy Thanksgiving! :)