This being our 1st Thanksgiving in our new house, I had to host. I love Thanksgiving. I love buying the turkey and getting the house all prepped. It forces me to clean :) So we cleaned away and put all the rooms together bc we were going to have a full house. We had a total of 12 people sleeping over for 2 nights, so I needed the house to be very picked up. I LOVE a clean house and the smell of cleaning solutions in every room, I know it sounds weird but I just love it. I set up all the tables the week before and hung the Christmas lights too( my husband did that). Can you tell we are a little excited for the holidays? This being our first time to hang lights on our house, we got an early start!
Everyone started showing up on Wednesday and all the festivities started. I loved how I set the table and all the personalized wine glasses I made for everyone with my cricket. But since I was so busy cooking up a storm I forgot to take a few shots of the table, I'm a little bummed I forgot but it's all in my head and I really loved how it turned out. Here's a little description. I made a pumpkin stew and served it in small little pumpkins that I carved out all my self. This was a first for me but everyone raved about how much they loved the stew and how cool the "bowls" were. This was actually a family tradition that my Mother-In-Law told me about that she had not done for a few years, so I brought it back.
Then I carved out large pumpkins and and made them vases for all the flower displays I had put together. It was really fun for me to go all out for my family bc they do so much for us and I just wanted to give back. On top of my family coming all the way up here some really goods friends showed up too, which was a wonderful surprise. Thank goodness I had plenty of food and plenty of left overs, my favorite.
We all went to The Village to watch Santa come down in the fire truck to host the lighting of the Christmas tree. We all sung Christmas Carols and just enjoyed a cold mountain night. My family got to experience what a small town is like and they all get why we moved here and how special it truly is. Then we all went to the movies and saw that new movie with Sandra Bullock and my Aunte stayed home with the babies, i can't recall the name of the movie but it was SO good, we all loved it. So I highly recommend it!
The next morning we all woke up to our 1st white wonderland. It was snowing like crazy and we all put on our coats and ran out side in the snow, it was so perfect, it was like we were all 5 years old. My daughter was not too sure at first but she ended up liking it at the end. It was so cute!
