family photos
Dec 05, 2009
I should probably be shot for sharing these before the stacks of other “legitimate” photos I should be blogging, but I LOVE the holidays (I’m a little bit crazy about them) and I love my boys (same thing), so I feel compelled to share pictures from our wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.
Nic’s mom, sister, and brother-in-law were in town and my sister-in-law and I took Thanksgiving to new heights. (As we pretty much always do.) In fact, we were so awesome that we IMPROVED ON MARTHA. Thanks to some inadequate recipe reading, we did some improvising on the green bean dish and ended up with something so yummy that I know it’s a new Turchin family tradition!
Recipe for “Martha’s Got Nothin’ on Traci and Heather” Green Beans
Boil green beans and strips of fennel until lightly cooked (the fun part of that will be figuring out what fennel looks like so you can buy it at the grocery store). Put them in a casserole dish along with half of a pomegranate. Top with crumbled goats cheese and my beloved traditional onion strings.
Willie enjoyed his sparkling apple cider. He drank approximately half a bottle. We spent most of the meal pouring more doses into the tiny celebratory glass I brought out for him. Next year I’m just going to stick a straw in the bottle. :P
The day after Thanksgiving we made the annual visit to see Santa! (A huge thanks to my brother-in-law Erik for snapping the shot on the right!! And the shot on the left is his official Santa shot [shared with release from the mall Santa photo people of course]!)
The first Saturday after Thanksgiving we save for getting our tree at the Colorado Tree Farm (we love them and our trees are always fantastic). We got the best tree ever and Will and I fought over MY new sock monkey hat! (I went home and ordered him one of his own.) :P
And then we headed home to decorate the tree and set up Nic’s old Lionel train set around the base!
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Really? I thought I was doing so well--I'm in two of them! The one with Nic in my rad sock monkey hat and then the full on close-up of my face in the thanksgiving one!
Sarah Kristiansen Dec 07, 2009 at 10:03These are so lovely, Traci, and I love the collage format. One thing...would have loved to see more of YOU in the photos!! (though I am in exactly zero of my own thanksgiving photos. hello black kettle. I'm pot.)
Heather Crawford Dec 06, 2009 at 04:01Love all of your fun pictures! Do you use some kind of actions to load your pics in the collage form? Like blog posting collages? I've been looking for some of these..any suggestions?
chris Dec 06, 2009 at 03:07thanks for posting, i wish we could have been there!
bernadette Dec 06, 2009 at 01:18ditto laura! last years santa pic is one of my all time favorite will pics! These pictures are wonderful though, you can feel the love by looking at them
Laura G Dec 06, 2009 at 01:30Looks like you had a great weekend!! It's nice to see that Will isn't looking quite so freaked out in the Santa picture this year as well :)
Susanne Dec 05, 2009 at 11:46I LOVE LOVE LOVE the train around the base of the tree!!! Happy Holidays Turchin Family!! : )