Hubs woke at 7am to let Ayi in. He and I are both starting to feel The Christmas Crazy.

He put Selah in bed with me for her morning beverage of choice. I can’t believe a year ago she was in my tummy.

The party showed up early at 8:55am. Here we go again. (Gotta love people

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The day began with…

Thanks to Pandora.com, Grooveshark.com and Spotify.com I think we’re going to hold off from buying a new Christmas CD again this year. Why buy when you can listen for free?

Breakfast was toast with apple butter. Hubs declared that Schäfer did not have to go to preschool because we would be setting up

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This year, Hubs and I celebrated our 10th Thanksgiving in marital bliss. Wow. Time really does fly by because it feels like we’ve only been married about 3 years.

Of course, it all began when we were dating…

2001
I took my first trip to Idaho to meet Hubs family. That trip was an eye opener in so

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11.28.02

Way back in 2002, Hubs was working at Starbucks. While on a break he was reading the newspaper when he came across a brine recipe. Since the newspaper belonged to Starbucks, he walked to a nearby store, put in 10 cents, and made a copy of the recipe.

On Thanksgiving Day, Shorel cooked our first of

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I walked down the hall this morning to see our Thankful Tree bursting with color.

We are loving this project. This year we only had three contributors. I can’t wait until Sianna and Selah can tell us what they are thankful for.

After breakfast, Selah was completely entertained by dumping my purse so I got busy

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Today was a day of cooking.

For Thanksgiving Day, we agreed to prepare:

snacks:
amish bread
apple butter
chai lattes

main:
turkey
stuffing
green bean casserole (can-less! import-less!)
sweet potato casserole
pecan pie

(our friends are bringing food as well to help fill out the menu)

A couple of weeks ago, we randomly found delicious pecans in our local Walmart!

Early this morning, Hubs traveled to the market on

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