Thanksgiving

During the month of November, we worked on a "thankful tree," where every night our family would write something we were grateful for on a leaf to add to our tree.

My personal favorite leaf came from Alex, who said that he was thankful for space, as in outer-space.

"I am thankful for trampolines"--Gabby

This year, I decorated our mantle (I even made the garland!):
Noah cooked the turkey in dutch ovens. He had trouble fitting one of them, so he literally had to saw the turkey in half. It was worth it though.
the spread:
friends and family (totaling 10 adults and 11 kids):
the quintessential "kids table"

Really Noah, You Shouldn't Have

Not to make you feel bad or anything, but my Thanksgiving holiday makes your Thanksgiving holiday look like a really long, boring business meeting. For example--did you see the Parthenon? Well, we did (and not the crappy ruined one either).

This is me with the Parthenon (below). But wait--it gets better!
Noah drove me to this really dumpy part of Nashville, Tennessee to show me something.

That's right readers--it's the Noah Liff Opera Center (always thrifty, Noah didn't want to fork out the extra money to finish spelling our last name, so he abbreviated with "Liff") For me??? Oh really Noah you shouldn't have!

So did your husband build you an opera house for Thanksgiving? I didn't think so.

I'll let you all know when I do my solo debut there but I'm afraid you'll have to pay your own way, we're a little short on funds right now after building an opera house and all...

P.S. Thanks to the Tennessee Lifferths who let us crash at their place and eat their food--we had so much fun! I wish I had pictures of Thanksgiving day with the cousins, but Noah didn't realize the camera was on manual so all those pictures look like they were taken in a cave.