give thanks...part I

Today we are hosting Thanksgiving Dinner at our home with my side of the family.

This is David's first attempt at a turkey{he choose to insert a pineapple into the turkey}
 and my first attempt at a traditional, homemade chess pie.  We are trying out this coctail as the turkey roasts if my blog post makes no sense that would be why.  

If I could give thanks for one thing this year it would be having
both my mom and dad at my table sitting beside my boys.

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holiday recap...

With the holiday bussle I was a little too busy to find time to blog.  We kicked off the holidays withThanksgiving in Chattanooga.  The photo above was takenon Thanksgiving Day.  Christmas came quickly and it was a magical one.  Ethan and Bennett lit up with the spirit of Christmas.  A baby's first Christmas is always special for a momma.  

Charlie our elf was up to his old tricks

i loved having 4 stockings hung on our mantel this year:)

Baby's First Christmas

Santa loves Bruder Trucks:)

 who knew getting a trash truck would be so grand?

 Ethan helping me make Maw-Maw's

homemade biscuits Christmas morning

David love for trains became a slight obession.  We searched high and low

for Grandpa's 1951 train until he turned Grandma's house inside out

fuzzy kisses from Grandpa

Charlie even came to Atlanta to Grandma & Grandpa's house.

He loved Grandma's  famous Frosty Friends bathroom display

Bennett had the best time with my cousin Shannon

The boys Christmas morning!

Thankful...

I am thankful for today....

 and my three {fever-free} boys (David, Ethan, and Baby Boy) and technology that allows me see Ethan watch the Macy's Day Parade on my phone while working to help sweet babies heal and grow... and much more than I have time to list...Happy Thanksgiving!  Posted from my iPad

give thanks....

This Thanksgiving, we celebrated twice: once in Gatlinburg and once at our house. We have so much to be thankful for, where do we begin? I for one can't help but to think of the irony of this Thanksgiving and last year's. Last year we drove through a neighborhood looking at lots for sale as we made our way to my mom's house. This year we hosted thanksgiving in that very neighborhood in our new home. We had planned to host Thanksgiving for my Grandad and Ruthie, who lost their home in the May Flood. However, my grandfather passed a few months prior and Ruthie was too busy moving into her new home to come to the dinner. That being said, I am thankful for my home and what home means: it is where you watch your children grow and change everyday, where you look forward to being after a long day at work, where you laugh with your husband, home is well....where your family is.....or as some say where your heart is.

Ethan this Thanksgiving Day...sporting a black eye

Ethan last year at Thanksgiving.... He's grown a little bit:)

Thanksgiving in Gatlinburg with the Andersons

Papa and Ethan playing with his Train

Thanksgiving at our house

My Mom and I cooking...first year allowed in the kitchen:) It is time

for me to learn how to cook mom's special mac and cheese.

a first thanksgiving...

Ethan's first pumpkin (Thanksgiving morning)

Nana and Mike
Our first Thanksgiving with Ethan

Nana and Ethan

Grandma and Ethan....he loves this swing

Great Aunt Sis and Ethan

Grandpa and Ethan

This year Thanksgiving is a little more special in the Anderson House. Well....a lot more special. We have a lot to be thankful for this year....our little butterball!

We kicked off Thanksgiving with my first try at making homemade sweet potatoes, pears, and bananas for Ethan. So far he loves them! He ate an entire banana for breakfast with his rice cereal....yummy!

We were lucky enough to be able to celebrate with in White Bluff and Atlanta this year.

From our house to yours.....Happy Thanksgiving!

Turkey for Two - times 2

We started Thanksgiving this year the weekend before the actual day. We traveled to Atlanta and enjoyed David's parents cooking. David and his Dad deep fried a turkey, which I had only seen them doing in pictures, which was great. We enjoyed catching up with everyone and playing with our favorite niece- that is until March, when we will have two favorite nieces! We left Atlanta to rush home and spot clean before we had a showing of our townhouse.

We celebrated Thanksgiving again with my mom in White Bluff. Mom cooked a delicious dinner and an even better (much requested) chess pie. My dad actually joined us for dinner, before he rushed off for this second Thanksgiving dinner with my grandad. We watched the Macy's Parade followed by another Titan Victory. I was trying to sneak in little bits of the dog show during commercials! Alex stayed with my mom when we were in Atlanta, so I was thrilled to bring him back home and see him. Well, I was glad until Alex got "sick" right as we picked up our forks to eat! Perfect timing Alex!

In between all the Thanksgivings, David and I found time to celebrate my 27th birthday at the Palm. I think the Palm is becoming one of my favorite places to eat! Yum! Anyhow, David gave me a Wii for my birthday. It is a blast. We are loving having friends over to play.