This Thanksgiving was spent in Memphis. I am sure you have figured out that we switch off years with the grandparents. The year we do Thanksgiving with my family, we stay home and do Christmas with Brent’s family. Works out great.
Here is the puppy posse. Aren’t they adorable? However there is one missing. My older sister’s dog Rowdy. He never gets to hang with the fam though because he is a pee’er. Is that even a word? He lifts his leg all over the house. He spends his holidays at the kennel up the street. These 3 rock the joint though. I love the puppy posse.
Before Thanksgiving we had a girls night out and went out to eat and to the movies. We saw the new Twilight movie. Not horrible, but geesh! Sometimes it seems so campy, I mean the acting is just excruciating in parts. Almost laughable.
My 19 year old nephew is always the MAN when he comes around. The kids flock to him like a moth to a flame. He does not mind at all and will play around with them all they want. He will make a great dad one day.
Here are a couple of shots I took in between our family portraits.
The leaves are always a hit…
My older sister Angie standing in for me as I worked on my camera settings. My dad took our family pictures. He is pretty good and always comes up with some interesting angles.
All of the pictures were taken on my parents property. It is just beautiful.
Of course….there was smores. They make them EVERY time and the kids LOVE it.
Ahhhh…Thanksgiving morning. We had our aprons on and were ready to cook up a storm! Alright fine, I admit it, my knife was just a prop. I mean, who the heck uses a knife that large anyway? But I look intimidating right? If you saw me like this on a dark street would you run the other way or just laugh hysterically? Yeah, me too.
Avery Grace is our little table setter. She pays great attention to the details.
We had 2 turkeys. One baked and one fried.
I photographed the 3 little ones and their matching outfits while waiting for the food to cook.
They took the shoot very seriously.
We love this moss covered tree. It makes for a great back ground.
My sister’s family on the left, and my mom’s sister and her son (my cousin) on the right. We had a VERY full house. 19 people under one roof for 4 of the days. Crazy!!!
Oh look! The moss tree again. Hee hee.
The little girls toasting with their sparkling apple cider.
My dad took this shot of Brent and I during Thanksgiving dinner. I love it. Great symmetry with the candles.
We had too any people to get a shot of the whole table. It looks like we had just finished dessert.
Caroline loves her some Big Daddy Counce.
The next morning the girls headed out for some Black Friday shopping. We were not too crazy as we left at about 10:30am. As much as I love to shop, sleep trumps shopping in my book.
After some shopping and dining I did take some pics of my little sister’s family. She found an adorable area to shoot in-- someone else's front yard. I think I want a family picture there next year. Well, if my parent’s still live there. My dad retires from Fed Ex in March. This just might have been our last holiday spent in Memphis. :(
The next day was the IRON BOWL!!!! Yep, I made all my kids dress up in their Bama gear for the game! :)
A group shot of some of us. We are all Bama fans except for 2 people.
Here is my hubby hugging on one of them. ;) The other is my little sister’s husband, Shaun.
The twin teenagers celebrating our awesome victory!
The Auburn fan still hugged on the 2 little Bama cheerleaders.
Victory is sweeeeeeet!!! Roll Tide!
We also celebrated my nephew Madden’s 6th birthday that night.
Another outstanding holiday with the family! Leaving is always so hard because we usually don’t see each other again until spring break. However, I will see my mom and sister Angie for Market in January.
We will now get back to our regular scheduled program…..Christmas posts!
