Happy Turkey Day!

My inlaws' house was on the Tour of Homes this year for Christmas (which meant it was decorated to the nines and OFF LIMITS to curious, playful, dirty little hands...hahah!) and my brother-in-law and his wife had just moved to a new place, so Thanksgiving was held at our house this year. It ended up just being Jay's mom and dad who came over, but it was a nice get together. It also felt good to be able to host the festivities, too.


Truett & I baked turkey cookies using his hand as the 'cookie cutter'.
Emma & PaPaw Jay working hard frying the turkey
The fruits of his labor....YUMMY! Gramma, Truett & Emma enjoying some down time We also celebrated with my family on Thanksgiving Day. We had family from out of town come in for the week. Truett and Emma LOVED spending time with my younger cousins and Jay and I LOVED having someone around to entertain our kiddos!


Mom & MawMaw
Jay & I
MawMaw & Wendy
Aunt Wendy & Emma
Dan & John
MawMaw & John Sherman
My friend, Summer, posted about the holidays and mentioned the 'generation tables' at dinner. We still have the 'grown up table' and the 'kid table' at my house. Here are some of my favorite 'kid table' members. :)



Kennedy
Madison
Truett

Emma Madison made placecards for each of us at the dinner table. Little did we know, but there was also a game involved. If you found something special with your placecard (ie: Jay's included a toy cowboy hat), then you won a chocolate coin as a special treat!It was so much fun hanging out and spending time with our families. We are all so blessed and have so much to be thankful for! HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Happy Birthday, Papa!

So, Jay has never been one to make a big deal out of his birthday, but that is just so FOREIGN to me! :) I tried doing a surprise party for him the first year we were married and it was then that I realized he wasn't kidding about the whole 'not thinking his birthday is a big deal' thing. So, we've always celebrated in some sort of fashion, but it's usually pretty low-key. This year, we had a birthday dinner celebration at my mom's house.

Emma with Aunt Sarah

Emma with LeeLa'

***Side note: Yes....Truett is still alive and kicking, but if he doesn't start staying in one place long enough for me to get pictures of him, people are going to start thinking Emma is an only child!

Truett & Emma giving their Papa his birthday present
Jay - I don't even know where to start and a simple blog post will not come CLOSE to letting you know how much we love you. We are so grateful to have you as the head of our family! We love you, Papa!