toast | Adventures of Four

Oh my goodness! I have so much to catch you guys up on. The holidays are in full swing around here! I’ve not found the time to blog lately. My apologies.

Let’s begin with Thanksgiving. It was a great day spent with family and friends. My boys began their day with a chocolate doughnut. Cutie Pie was the messiest thanks to his full contact doughnut eating.

J spent the morning and early afternoon hauling box after box out of the attic. His mission was and still is to organize our crap treasures that we’re storing up there. I had to pry him away from his organization and new exterior outlet installation at 3:45 PM so he could shower for dinner. You see, J is all about the Christmas lights. Our house did not have a convenient outlet outside for plugging in our strands. Every year he had to run huge extension cords from inside our garage. The garage door wouldn’t close completely to the ground due to the cords running beneath it. It became his other mission to fix that problem this year.

Around 4 PM (Yes, that was a 15-minute shower and change session for J. He’s quick like that) we headed next door to Steph and Big Red’s house for a truly spectacular feast. I brought an amazing homemade, deep dish apple pie with caramel sauce, sparkling grape juice for the kiddies and my grandmother’s cranberry salad. Thanksgiving and Christmas are nothing without my grandmother’s cranberry salad. Everyone that came brought a couple of dishes to share as well. So, you can imagine the massive amount of food we had. But that’s what it’s all about, right?

Steph’s Dad was in charge of carving the TWO turkeys!

My mom and her sister, Mimi, were in charge of the gravy.

Steph and I were in charge of wine consumption.

Before we sat down to eat, we said a little prayer and then let the kids toast with the sparkling grape juice in plastic wine glasses. Let me tell you, they were in Heaven! B drank so much, so fast that he ended up coughing, choking and sputtering his way through his glass.

We feasted on the many wonderful things that everyone made and enjoyed the company. It was a very nice evening. The weather was perfect for eating outside on the patio. I have so much to be thankful for.