Thanksgiving Dinner menu

I am sooo excited to see you guys!!! It's so close! I have the rooms almost all ready for you all. I love making things fun for company!
As far as the menu is concered all of your ideas have been great! You all know I love the cranberry salad which I will make, even if it's just a small one, so if everyone else wants the jello/pretzel one we can do both. I love green beans with cream of mushroom soup. But other than that and of course the traditional things like: stuffing, gravey, turkey, pumpkin pie, that's all I care about.
I'll make a Christmas list. That's a good idea to exchange at Thanksgiving. I love you all!!

P.S. To The Stewarts, You will be there in spirit and we will call often. I love you!

Christmas Gift Exchange

Hi everyone, so I just thought I'd do a quick post and have everyone think about what they want for Christmas and make a list asap. We will do it tonight as well!! I really want to bring my gifts to thanksgiving so I don't have to mail them, so it'd be great if people could get these out by the weekend at least:) I'll have to email Lauren and Steve since I know they won't check the blog. Mom this includes you too:) Love you guys!!

More Thanksgiving Ideas

Ok, so I'm not as cool as Shell, I didn't find pictures for my ideas, but oh well, I figured I'd post them since we're leaving in a little over a week!! Where has November gone?? Anyway, I asked Jon what he always loved having at thanksgiving, and then thought of what I'd like to try and make, and here's what we came up with:

Sherry's mashed potatoes. I know I made them last time and they didn't turn out so great, but I've made them since, so hopefully they will be better. They are seriously my favorite part of the Armour thanksgiving, so I've got to perfect these:)

Corn Bread Casserole. This is another Armour family recipe that's tradition and very yummy. I figure I'll never be the one assigned to make it for their family, but I really want to know how, so I'm going to take that on as well.

Banana Cream Pie/Real Cheesecake. I've never made either of these, but since they're the only two pies I like, I figure I better make them or else there will be no dessert for me, hehe. I haven't decided which, I'll have to see which looks easier:)

Those are the ones I've thought of that are unique. I also think we should make the rolls from mom's recipe book. They're super easy and super yummy. I always get asked for the recipe when I take them places. Also, I have a jello/pretzel dish that's good, but if someone had another jello salad they love then we should go with that. I know mom loves the cranberry stuff, doesn't that have jello in it? So maybe that's enough jello! I also have a really yummy salad recipe too, if we wanted a green salad. Anyway, hopefully these should work:) I figure we put our ideas up there and then actually make sure it's somewhat balanced in the end. Love you all!!

Thanksgiving ideas

Steph had a the great idea for us to post things that we wanted to make on Thanksgiving. I'm sorry that I always want to make the craziest things, but it is just so fun for me! Here are some of the things I have already thought of:

Pumpkin-Filled Pancakes

Dont these look amazing! Not for Thanksgiving day, but maybe breakfast the day before or something.

Pumpkin Pie

I want to try to make mine look like this this year. Cool, huh!

Butternut Squash Soup

Are we the only ones who would like this?

Sweet Potato Casserol

I wont make these fat free this time! These will be the real deal and I will show everyone how GOOD sweet potatoes are!

Is it weird that everything I want to make is orange? I cant help it!

More Pictures from the Stewarts

Ok so I always forget to write stuff before I upload any pictures. Here are some more pictures of our family that I have been forgetting to share and have promised some of you. This first first one if you can't guess is from Halloween. They had so much fun!
Here they are with Chris (and yes he finally cut his hair!!!!!) getting ready to go.

Decorating cookies with mom and Lauren. We really had so much fun and of course the cookies were great!!!

Grammy and Gage at the zoo. This was at the end and hard to get this picture.

Here are both the boys. Gaven did not want to get off the baby tiger.

This is Gage's first day of pre-school. He has such a great time and has made some really good friends.

We actually got to ride in this monster school bus. It was in the Sear's parking lot and the money went to a charity that I can't remember. Gage still talks about it and it was months ago.

It was huge. It was like a roller coaster and actually made me a little sick.

This is on the boats at Lagoon. Gaven had fun ringing the bell. The little girl is my niece that we never see. They are exactly 2 weeks apart.

Grandpa won Gage a guitar and he thought he was a cool rock star.

There were so many more pictures that I wanted to post, so maybe I will have to do another posting to show you all how much fun we have had the last couple of months. The boys are so big and so fun. They are best friends and miss each other when they are not together. I hope you guys have so much fun at Thanksgiving, we wish we could be there, but we will see all of you at Christmas!!! Also for those of you who have noticed that I joined Facebook, I have no idea how to do anything on there, but I will learn eventually!