Thanksgiving 2014

 This is Beauty's care package that will be sent out for Thanksgiving. It has a sweater in the body, leggings in one leg, socks, and scarf and then some candy! Super cute turkey care package! After moving into our home we are hosting our first Thanksgiving dinner here! I wanted to go away and go to the Beach! but, we stayed home and I was glad we did, in the end! I wanted to make some photo props for Thanksgiving and I made sure everyone who came used them!

 

 WE had Princess Warrior and her family for Thanksgiving. They do  not have a traditional Thanksgiving they do a dinner after with many traditional Mexican foods.

This is our Thanksgiving 2014 family photo! Little did we know in a few days a Neapolitan mastiff would become a new member! Little did I know that joy and peace would soon end.

 

 Jill Smith and Kane came to visit as well! She had some work to do with a good friend and she stayed with her and the CRAZY thing is she lives less than 10 minutes away from me!! say what??
It was so good to see them! I loved having a little piece of Missouri in NC and she is one of my most favorite people and friends. Truly blessed this Thanksgiving.  Kane got so big in the year we have been gone! Dash and Kane almost seemed like twins! They went out and had a bit of fun!

 

 

The Yergensen family also were in town!! I mean can a girl be anymore blessed than this??! They too moved from Missouri and are living in Alabama but Rach had a race, right here in Charlotte and my favorite family came to visit us and I got to spend time with my favorite, Lisa! This was just what I needed a little bit of familiar faces surrounding me! It would be our first holiday with out dear friends or family! It was heart wrenching when the weekend passed and I had to say goodbye as they slowly left NC! My heart broke all over again!

MUG SHOTS found on my camera

Going through my camera only tells me how far behind I am in posting!

This is what our house looked like during Spring Break. We have had quite a winter filled with much snow! We are so ready to see some blue skies, green ground and sunshine.

So we headed to Borders and Books where they were going out of business and we set up camp.

And we did it for FREE! We were shopping and then we were meeting friends to eat at Cheesecake Factory to celebrate their birthdays!

Here are a few mug shots that I found from my camera! They definitely are not camera shy! Strike the pose divas!

Birthday Celebration! Their dad and Lisa's husband Russ was out of town so they have become our family away from home! This year it was on Mardi Gras day. (I said, I was behind. Don't judge me)

and one with me in it too! Tara is the gorgeous ginger and theirs my friend, Lisa. They both share each others birthday. That is so sweet.

This was my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE entree that I ordered! I got a fish burrito and it was simply AMAZING! I still have dreams of it and long to have it again, daily! It is what we Hawaiians would say," I am ONO for it".
I have always wanted to try a fish taco, ever since I started reading Stephanie Nielson's blog. I have been too afraid to try it. What if I didn't like it, then I would waste money. But, this was so good. Please try it! (btw, one of the birthday girls didn't like her meal and sent it back and ordered something different) so, it's not that big of an ordeal. I guess I will be trying many more new things!