Saturday, December 15, 2012

GOBBLE GOBBLE

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday! I love getting together with family and eating yummy food. This year we all piled up into the Camry and headed up to Chesapeake, VA. It was a long 10 hour drive, but so well worth it!!!

Portraits from Thanksgiving 2012
This holiday Khyri took special interest in the family pictures all around the house. He liked pointing out which picture matched each person in the room. I really like that he can remember names so well, even though we don't get to see the family that often. It makes me smile when he sees a picture a picture of my mom and says "That's Grandma Millie"


Grandma, also know as GiGi, was up working hard making the baked macaroni and cheese. I can't decide which dish I like the most - mac n cheese, collard greens, or candied yams. They're all so yummy. Who says I need to pic just one anyway!?!?


My cousins highjacked my camera and started snapping pictures. I love this one of my grandfather or as the munchkins call him - Pop Pop :-)

almost 90 years old and still dresses fresh to death!
Good food, Good meat, Good lord, Let's eat!
After the food is all gone - its bonding time :-)

 
 
The K girls - Kenya, Kahlillah and Kielle

Nick and Kimiyo

Caught! Brianna giving the gas face
...and of course we had leftovers for the next two days. I think Khyri was looking for some chicken fingers after day two. Kielle, aka little miss munch-a-lot, ate Thanksgiving food every chance she got - with no complaints.


This year we added a new tradition (in addition to the adult Black Friday early morning outing - woot woot!) of making Christmas stocking and cookies. I've never made cookies so this was a full on experiment. Luckily my cousin Tam was on deck to help with the project. Armed with spray oil, sugar cookie dough, and Christmas themed cookie cutters we set out to work.


 

Khyri was excited to put the cookies into the oven to bake. He lined up right next to Brianna like he was in school :-)

 

Our final product didn't look the best, but they tasted really good. I didn't know that I was supposed to have some icing and stuff to decorate the top with. We'll be ready next Thanksgiving with sprinkles and all types of yumminess.

Our other craft for the night was making Christmas stockings. Earlier in the evening we went to Dollar Tree and Walmart to get our craft supplies. We found these extra large stockings at Dollar Tree that were perfect for decorating. Before we let out our inner Martha Stewart, Kimiyo and Nick wrapped a very special Christmas present.


Notice that Kielle still has her cookie in hand! She is a munchkin for real.


While we decorated our stockings, Nick read some questions from the board game Would You Rather. Some of the questions were hilarious - Would you rather have your toenails grow uncontrollably or sneeze incessantly? Would you rather wear 18 inch heels or pants that are 4 sizes too small? I mean seriously - how about neither... hahahaha


We used glitter, foam sticky letters, and different foam holiday shapes like ornaments, snowflakes, gingerbread men, and Christmas trees to decorate our stockings.






Poor Grandma tried to hang with the young folks.. not.so.much. hahahaah She gets points for trying to stay up though :-)



Kenya spent a lot of time protecting her stocking from Kielle haahhah

 
Some of our finished stockings


What a great way to bring in the holiday season - with family and crafts!