Family Photos 2015

Over Thanksgiving, Sarah was gracious enough to snap a few family photos. I am always amazed at how talented she is, especially with kids who aren't always the most cooperative. Thank you, Sarah!

Thanksgiving 2015

Thanksgiving is such a wonderful holiday. I love saving a day to truly think about the blessings in our lives. And, as crazy as it is to have both kids birthdays close to Thanksgiving, I'm grateful for the reminder that they are the greatest blessings.

For Thanksgiving this year, we headed to South Carolina to spend it with my mom, her sister, Marchee and Sarah and Perryn. We had a blast relaxing at Mimi's house, enjoying delicious food, watching the Thanksgiving Parade and enjoying family time!

These kids love when they get to take baths in Mimi's jacuzzi.

Pretty excited about the Thanksgiving Parade. Does this remind anyone of 101 Dalmatians?

Coloring with Mimi

Playing with his new lego set that Mimi got him for his birthday

Kate is in love with Macy. Although, I'm not sure Macy is a huge fan. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had an absolutely wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. Family, food and parties. Does life get any better?

On Wednesday evening, Chuck and I had a fun time reminiscing about the Wednesday before Thanksgiving last year. Finding out we were having a baby that day, heading to the hospital, freaking out a little, and welcoming our bundle of joy into the world. My, how time truly does fly.

We were able to spend most of Thursday at Mom and Dad Krebs! My mom got into to town the previous evening so we all headed over around 1pm. Let me tell you, Mom Krebs sure knows how to put together a fabulous Thanksgiving. We had delicious turkey, mashed potatoes, rolls, stuffing, green bean casserole, fruit salad and more! Before we all passed out in food comas we decided to head over to Veteran's Park elementary school to play on their playground-it was a gorgeous day! Jack had loads of fun playing in the wood chips, sliding down the side and swinging with Dad. Although, Dad and his brothers may have had more fun seeing how far they could jump off the swings. It was a toss up. Afterwards we headed home with our little tired man. My mom's sister, Marchee got into town that night, so we stayed up and partied with her :)

On Friday, Chuck and I hosted our very first Thanksgiving dinner for a few members of my family. It was so nice to have everyone together in our home. I love having a place for friends and family to gather. We cooked up a delicious turkey breast, green bean casserole and some bread! We also had honey ham and sweet potato suffle and Sarah's deviled eggs - delicious. And of course, pumpkin cake for dessert :) Sarah was awesome and snapped a few family photos for us after we gorged ourselves. She gave these to me unedited (which I doctored a little bit in my elementary iphoto program...did I mention that photoshop would be awesome to own?) so I could use them quick for Christmas cards. So nice!

On Friday we had yet ANOTHER thanksgiving meal with Dad and Kathy and a few members of her family. It was a wonderful meal and a great time! We also discovered that Jackson has a great love of egg nog. Grandpa Woods put some in his sippy cup and he just laid in Dad's lap chugging it until it was gone. Literally. The sippy cup did not leave his mouth until he had drained every last bit. What a funny little man :)

It was a fabulous Thanksgiving holiday! And I officially wish you all a Merry Christmas season!

Thanksgiving Decor.

Thanksgiving could quite possibly be my favorite holiday. Although, Christmas is absolutely fabulous. I can never decide between the two. I guess I could have two favorites. (cue Brian Regan quote).

So, logically, I am loving the Thanksgiving decorations! If I could, I would overflow our house with leaves and pumpkins and burlap. But alas, a student budget leaves me to a few choice decorations and a lot of handmade love :)

Our Thanksgiving Mantle:

Those silver cups are from my Dad's law firm. The glass jug is an old liquor bottle from my sister and filled with a random mixture of liquid to get the look of apple cider :)

  I'm in love with our wood gate. I found this tutorial via pinterest and went from there. With all my pallet wood, I was able to throw this thing together in one night. Awesome. Oh yeah and it's FREE.

I made the wreath out of foam tubing from lowe's (which makes two wreaths for 98 cents!), some moss from michael's ($4 with a coupon) and some fun ribbon.

Doesn't burlap make everything better? P.s. I found that lovely candle holder at the Restore for $1. Yay :)

 The banner is made out of canvas and burlap. I painted the letters freehand with some black acrylic paint. Everything is hot glued together. No sewing machine = loads and loads of hot glue.

 Our Grateful Tree:

I saw this idea on pinterest and decided to do it. We had a Thanksgiving jar last year, which I loved, but I liked the visual display of the tree better. I love it.

 I printed out some of our photos from Boyd orchards and threw them up on the window. Who doesn't love a cute baby? We do :)

Thank goodness for free printables! This is hanging in our entry way.

Happy Thanksgiving. May our days be filled with gratitude for the blessings in our lives and love for the people with whom we share them.