The Booth family adventures: Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving....yummy food, friends, family and showing our gratitude. This year we kept it pretty simple. We had a few friends over which was great! It was fun visiting with them and Matt loved having someone else to watch football with. :)

One of my family's (Minetto's) traditions is to have an array of dips for lunch and just snack all afternoon. So I'm keeping that tradition alive! I think Matt and kids liked it!

Briella and Connor especially loved the clam dip! (As do I!)

Then we began the festivities after naps and quiet time. Before dinner we had everyone fill out their 'grateful sheet' - 'What I'm grateful for', then we put them up on the wall for everyone to see. It's nice seeing what others are grateful for.

Connor drew a picture at school of his family to show what he is grateful for. Let me just explain everyone in the pic (because as you can see it's more than our immediate family). In the blue are (left to right) Daddy, Mommy (with her big tummy!), Connor and Briella. Then in red we have Grandpa and Grandma. Then up top in red (from left to right) are Uncle Neil, Aunt Mo, Lincoln and Roman (sorry Sienna). It was cute!! He loves his cousins!! :)

Some of my favorites on the 'grateful wall' are peanut butter, technology, stars, fruit snacks, the USA, and friends and family.

For dinner this year a friend suggested a new recipe for the turkey. We did a brine - I've never done it before because I'm always afraid it will come out too salty. This recipe was FANTASTIC!!!! And the turkey was delicious!! (It's from Ourbestbites.com Kate's Thanksgiving Turkey)