Thanksgiving week has come and gone in a flash!!! Liam was able to come home from Vanderbilt for a whole week – Logan and I picked him up from the airport last Saturday and headed straight to one of our favorite restaurants nearby to celebrate – the fry their french fries in duck fat and… Continue Reading
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks! The Friday before Thanksgiving hubby and I headed to Scottsdale where he had a conference through Monday night. It’s held at a really nice resort, so this was supposed to be a bit of break for us, especially me. Unfortunately I came down with a really bad cold… Continue Reading
Each year we invite a lot of people to enjoy Thanksgiving with us and I make lots of PIE! We’ve cooked Thanksgiving for lots of people pretty much our whole married life, and there’s always been enough people that we would have needed 2-3 pies to have enough for everyone, but what KIND of pie… Continue Reading
My goodness what a fabulous holiday we had. Hubby was away at a conference from the Thursday to Tuesday, so it was only Logan and I who went to pick up Liam at the airport on Saturday: Logan, who is 4 years younger than Liam, is catching up to him! We watched some movies, got… Continue Reading
Oh my, what a week! It was chock full of activity, we had a lot of fun, but boy am I tired!!! The holiday week started last Saturday with a trip into LAX. Liam’s plane from Nashville arrived just a couple of hours before his girlfriend Celia’s (she was checking out a college on the… Continue Reading
What a fabulous Thanksgiving we had! I spent most of Wednesday baking pies! I had some help from Liam, who made the filling for the sugar cream and the apple: and Logan, who made the filling for Derby pie: By the end of the day, I had made 9 pies: The looked fabulous cooling in… Continue Reading
I took a bit of a blogging break because there was too much pie to make! I hope Thanksgiving (for all my US readers) was full of family, friends and FUN! Because that’s what ours was! 🙂 If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile, you know that we call Thanksgiving the “Festival of Pie”,… Continue Reading
Well, the Festival of Pie (what we call Thanksgiving, because we have so much PIE!) was a rousing success! Actually, this was quite possible our best Thanksgiving EVER! We had lots of friends on hand, and my cousin Jessica, whom I haven’t seen since she was a flower girl at our wedding like 20 years… Continue Reading