Finally! I have them up! We had such a great time during Thanksgiving! It was our first year to have Diego’s little boy Justin for the Holiday! So that was very exciting, it was fun to share our traditions with him :) Many of them came from my family just because Diego and his family really didn’t have Thanksgiving traditions growing. They are from another country, so that is mostly the reason why. My family if FULL of traditions, and I am SUCH a traditional person it isn’t even funny!! I love passing down traditions, or creating our own traditions! I love to know that things are passed down from year to year, having the kids expect it and get excited for it makes me so happy! I hope that one day my kids will value the traditions as much as I do and want to pass them down to their families :) Anyway, here are some pics! Oh! I have a new Christmas tradition to show you soon!
Now our Thanksgiving tradition is….. wake up Thanksgiving morning, mom (or the family when I was growing up) starts cooking, and we all watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade all morning!!! LOVE IT!!!! See when I was growing up, I was around all of my family. So I can remember being at my nanny & papa’s house and everyone was helping in some sort of way. Either with food, preparing food, setting the table, getting dressed and ready… whatever. But we always watched the parade! Then as I got a bit older, we would stay home at my house and while my mom was preparing the pies to take over to my nanny and papa’s house us kids would be watching the parade. So fun, we looked forward to Santa coming at the end, it was so fun! This year we did just that! Brooklyn was so excited to show Justin the parade, and then this year I had the kids make little candy turkeys! It was so fun!!
Here you have the Oreo's, reeses, candy corn, and whooper's for the Turkeys…yum!
Diego is patiently waiting to start helping…. LOL!
The kids have started their turkeys… these kids turkeys were not edible for the adults… Especially Mr. Justin! He licked his fingers soooooo much during this turkey making process, that we told the kids they could have the turkeys. We didn’t want their spit turkeys, LOL!
All the kids enjoying themselves!! Such a cute bunch! We seriously have the cutest kids EVER! Check it out, even Ms. Natalie is in the pic… sleeping! Hehe! 
Now for dinner time!!!! I was so proud of myself I got ALL of the dinner on the table ON TIME!! Love my time management skills!! Whoo Hooo!!! So how I did it, I made 2 sweet potato pies, 2 pecan pies, 1 sweet potato roll, no-name salad, cranberry salad, and the corn bread (for the stuffing) all the day before! Whew Wee, I was a busy mama that day! I didn’t go to bed until 145am that was from CLEANING my kitchen from the mess!! And I was waiting on my hubby and Justin to get home, but I gave up and went to sleep, but they rolled in about 2am. Then I woke up on Thanksgiving morning at 6:45am, yes, 645am. See we were having dinner at 2pm, so I wanted my Turkey to be done by 1;30pm so I could pop the other things in the over while the Turkey was “setting”… So that is exactly what I did. I woke up prepared the Turkey and BAM in the oven by 8am during that time we made the candy turkeys, watched the parade, the kids went to the park with dad and just had a great time waiting on our meal. At 1pm I got the green bean casserole ready, the sweet potato suffle ready, cornbread stuffing ready, and started cutting up potatoes for the mashed potatoes. I sat everything in their cooking containers next to the oven so when the turkey came out I put all that stuff in, because each of them needed to cook for about 30 minutes. Turkey came out at 1:30, so then I popped in the green bean casserole, the corn bread stuffing, the sweet potato suffle, the potatoes were boiling on the stove top and the house was smelling DELISH! While the stuff was cooking in the oven I put the Turkey on the platter then onto the table, mashed the potatoes and put them onto the table, at 2pm everything came out and went onto the table, dinner was ready. But. My in-laws got stuck at the restaurant they own, and didn’t show up until 3pm. Yes. 3pm. Oh well, what do you do right? So we just looked at all the pretty food and waited, lol!!! Check out the pics, the kids loved their food, and of course the adults did too! We toasted and then ate!
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