Making Memories Not Messes: November 2011

Happy Thanksgiving!! Oh, how I love thanksgiving. The food, family, the time off from school, the weather, the cooking and eating. I love you can stretch out the Thanksgiving season and start in October and have two months celebrating the bounty of Autumn. Everything is so delightful. This year I didn't have any stress about it so I think finally after 15 years of making Thanksgiving dinner I must have it down. Or maybe it was because this year I actually had a little helper. Sweet Pea wanted to be involved in everything! She was so helpful. She helped me with the apple pie yesterday, she got up early today and helped me with the rolls, the turkey, she even personally cut every potato! I was so impressed. She wanted to do everything. She even made these cute little napkin rings. It made me so happy that she actually wanted to be apart of making our Thanksgiving dinner and I loved having the help!

Here's some photos of our day.

ok... well maybe not. I downloaded the pictures onto my computer and I can see them in my photo album but when I go to look for them to upload to Blogger, they are not there! That's frustrating. Even more so because I deleted the photos from my sd card so I can't download them again. I'll have to try again later. Sorry!

......It worked! Maybe my computer just needed time to think about it.

Sweet Pea's cute napkin rings. Courtesy of Our Best Bites. When I decided to make these, I went searching for the flowers and couldn't find anything in the right color. I could see the flowers in my head but could not find anything close. Dejected I came home and that night before I went to bed I had a revelation of sorts. I knew I had seen the flowers I wanted, they were in my bathroom downstairs being used as a decoration. Well, needless to say, I don't have that decoration anymore! It was totally worth it, these were adorable.