Stuffed (Tired) and So, So Thankful!!

Our thanksgiving holiday was a festive, beautiful weekend!

I spent Weds making pies with this fabulous girl.
Then I snagged her photo off of facebook,
since they looked straight outta the movies and all.

See the beautiful results of our hard work? It is heaven in a pie! Cranberry Walnut Tart is the smash hit way to end your Thanksgiving Day Feast. It is divine and blows pecan pie far, far, away. And if I had time I would post the recipe, but if you want it for your Christmas Day Dessert or next years Turkey Day festivities, you can call me (or beg me to post in the comments, but don't count on it as I am scrambling to attend to my daily duties today).

In order to counter balance the waist expanding effects of our glorious meal, we crashed a neighborhood family 5K. There were walkers, joggers, skate boarders, kids on bikes and I even spotted a pregnant lady on roller blades! It was awesome, the neighborhood streets well mapped out with signs and helpful people when we crossed the street. While jogging the last 1.5 miles, I teamed up with a toe headed young cutie-pie on a bike with training wheels. I kinda fell in love with him. He kept me smiling saying things like "Are we almost done? Cuz I'm weally, weally tired!" and "aren't you tiwed of wunning yet?" and I made sure he ended up back at his aunt's house instead of Yuma.

Our Thanksgiving Food was perfect and I thank this girl for bringing brined turkey into my life.

Mr. Handsome spent the afternoon at the car show, passing off this male family tradition to the next generation.

Thursday evening was spent hanging out with my bro and his sweet, growing family. I LOVE my FAMILY! Hoorah for fun aunts, uncles and cousins! We made it to the train park on Saturday afternoon where we hung out and saw people who looked like they were from Arizona instead of Utah. Ha!

Black Friday was shopping mayhem, but it is a tradition I am not yet ready to give up. I'd show you a picture of me with my heavy shopping bags, but that'd spoil the surprises, now wouldn't it!

And then that night we started our own new little tradition with a family date night to the Pop Shop and In-N-Out Burger. The Pop Shop was a soda lover's paradise and it could be a new addiction to for our Family Date Nights. I recommend Dr. Tima's Honey Blood Orange and Empire Pineapple Soda. Seriously, you should go here. Take your 6 kids and watch your blood pressure rise as you envision them smashing cases of soda bottles. When you get out without any broken glass you can celebrate with a cool, frothy rootbeer bottled by THE Judge Wapner complete with his angry judge picture on the bottle. Its awesome.

And here is the song stuck in my head all weekend,
sung at the Joy School Thanksgiving Pilgrim Reenactment.
To the tune of Where is Thumpkin:
Thank you pilgrims,
Thank you pilgrims,
You came across the rolling seas
Brought us freedom
Brought us freedom
So we could worship God