Our twist on Thanksgiving!

 

 

It has almost been a week since Thanksgiving and I have been trying to recoup from that and Christmas shopping! 

 As always, our Thanksgiving was a hit! We had so much food and everyone that was able to come had so much fun! This was one of our best Thanksgivings yet!  We are so lucky to have such an amazing group of friends (who are family) and family every year!

 

So, this year we wanted to do something nontraditional for Thanksgiving. We decided to make a turporkin! Yes, that is a turkey, with pork and chicken!! I have to admit I was so nervous when making this and cooking this. It turned out to be the best turkey I have ever had!! The gravy was also amazing! All the flavors and it was so juicy! 

 

  We had to de-bone the 20lb turkey. Then we started stuffing and layering! First layer was stuffing so the shape of the turkey would start to come back. Then it was layers of bacon (pork) and chicken! Tur(key)Pork(Chick)en!

 

We had a lot of meat leftover. I decided to make Thanksgiving leftover rolls. This was a lot more challenging then I thought it would be. In the end they were delicious and we even had some leftover cranberry sauce from my bacon wrapped stuffing balls to dip them in! 

 

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Now on to Christmas stuff!!!

 

December Menu

December Menu! Omg where has the time went!! I can not get over how fast these months are flying by! December is so crazy busy so here is an easy but fun menu! Hope you all enjoy!

Veterans Day vs Memorial Day

With Veterans Day coming up I wanted to express the difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day!

Veterans Day is a day to thank all of our living active and retired service members. Veterans Day actually started in 1926 as Armistice Day. This was to honor all WW1 veterans. It wasn't until WW2 in 1954 that it was changed to Veterans day to honor all veterans in all wars!

 

I can't thank all of my family and extended military family enough for everything they do.

Memorial Day is a day to remember and honor those men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice. Memorial Day actually originated after the Civil War in 1865 and became an official holiday in 1971.

Both of these days are dear to my heart! I have active family members; retired family members and my mother was killed in Iraq in 2007.

So please make sure that this Sunday November 11th 2018, (Observed on November 12th) you thank all of our active and retired service members!

Good bye Halloween....Hello Thanksgiving!

I can't believe that October is already over! Now that all of the Halloween stuff is put back up until next year we can start to focus more on the BIG TURKEY DAY! Pumpkins are out, New tablecloths, and hand towels. We also have to make sure our turkey is front and center in the yard!

I try so hard in the month of November for our house to reflect things that they are thankful for. The past few years I have made a board everyone could write on. There was an I am thankful for jar. This year I thought it would be fun to write on white pumpkins! I am going to purchase artificial pumpkins, so we are able use them as a centerpiece every year!

My list is made for our Thanksgiving dinner. Now the timeline for when I will need to start prepping food and setting up! Each year it feels like our dinner grows larger and larger! This makes me so so happy because I love hosting for allot of people! As it has grown larger, we have had to move out of our small kitchen and into the garage! Thank goodness it is a finished garage that holds heat very well!

I know there are families out there that do not like TV in the dining room. Our family is not this way. All of the men (and some women) want the game on for Thanksgiving. The volume is muted though while we are eating! The T.V. is also in the corner of the garage so it is not in the way.

Last year we added these cute lights to our dinner. It made dinner so nice and calm!

Decorations for the dining area are a huge thing for me. Especially since we have grown so much and had to move into the garage! We purchase this plastic tablecloth roll to hide our garage walls!  This year I am hoping to make things just a little fancier!

 

I have been looking up allot of ideas on Pinterst and think that I have finally found what I can put my own twist on for decorations! Follow me on Facebook for more updates!