Cute Thanksgiving Cookies… and a cupcake too…

Last year I wrote this post about cute Thanksgiving cookies. I thought I would do another this year with more super cute cookies.

We made these today in my class. They turned out cute!

I had some leftover ingredients, so I’ll probably have my boys make some at home.

I LOVE these handprint turkey cookies!! You can find instructions here. There is another version at Nick Jr. as well.


I am going to have to do these- maybe next year.

Here’s a super cute Indian corn cookie:

Recipe can be found here at Family fun.

I found these little turkeys on the Betty Crocker website.

And a cupcake for good measure.

The recipe for these super cute cupcakes can also be found at Family Fun.

Mr. Turkey…

Luke has been loving preschool and learning so much in his wonderful class this year!  He came home singing the songs that he has been practicing for his upcoming Thanksgiving program.  Mr. Turkey is his personal favorite.

 I find his singing beyond cute…. but I guess I am his mother.  :)

Mr. Turkey
Mr. Turkey, Mr. Turkey
Run away, Run away
You better be careful
Or you will be a mouthful
On Thanksgiving Day
On Thanksgiving Day!

Thanksgiving Fun…

After a much needed blogging break, I’m back. Not that anyone noticed. Well, except for my mother. J

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving break. We went up to my parents for the majority of the week and packed in lots of fun! My kids got spoiled as usual. Papa was very excited to give D3 a dune buggy. D3 got in and took off.

Hey, wait for me!

The pics are dark, but hopefully they can be seen. He loves the thing and has been whipping around in it ever since he got it!

I didn’t really take many pictures on Thanksgiving Day, but I did get one of D3 enjoying his yummy lunch.

We had a great spread and both of my grandmothers, my grandfather, and my aunt came to join us on Thanksgiving Day.


My sweet Mawmaw, who would not be thrilled to know I put her picture on the website. J

And tuckered out from too much Thanksgiving fun:

We also watched Twilight, shopped on Black Friday, and went on the Polar Express, but I’ll update more through the week.

Have a great week. It’s back to reality!

Thanksgiving: Food…

The card slot on my computer is not working, so I can’t upload the rest of my pictures I wanted to share from the Auburn v. Georgia game that we went to this past weekend! D3 had a ball and loved the cotton candy, if you can’t tell from my previous post!

It’s hard to believe, but Thanksgiving is next week-so, I wanted to post a couple of my favorite Thanksgiving recipes!


Mawmaw’s Cornbread Dressing
Ingredients:

  • Cream of celery coup
  • Cream of chicken soup
  • 1 ½ tbsp. sage
  • 1 can chicken broth
  • Salt and pepper to taste
  • Cake of cornbread

Directions:

  • Crumble cornbread into fine piece in a medium bowl
  • Add the rest of the ingredients and stir
  • Place in casserole dish
  • Cook on 350 degrees for 45 minutes

And I’m pretty sure my husband’s favorite thing that I make:

Crunchy Caramel Apple Pie
Ingredients:

  • 1 deep-dish pastry crust- 9 inch
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 3 Tbsp. all-purpose flour
  • 1 tsp. ground cinnamon
  • 1/8 tsp. salt
  • 6 cups thinly slice, peeled apples (2 different kinds)
  • 1 recipe crumb topping (below)
  • 1/2cup chopped pecans
  • 1/4 cup caramel topping

Ingredients for Crumb Topping:

  • 1 cup packed brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 cup quick cooking rolled oats
  • 1/2 cup butter

 Directions for Crumb Topping:

  1. Stir together brown sugar, flour, rolled oats
  2. Cut in 1/2 cup butter until topping is like course crumbs.  Set aside.

Directions:

  1. In a large mixing bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cinnamon and salt
  2. Add apple slices and gently toss until coated.
  3. Transfer apple mixture to the pie shell
  4. Sprinkle crumb topping over apple mixture
  5. Place pie on a cookie sheet so the drippings don’t drop into your oven.
  6. Cover edges of pie with aluminum foil
  7. Bake in a preheated 375 oven for 25 minutes.  Then remove foil and put back in for another25-30 minutes without foil
  8. Remove from oven.  Sprinkle pie with chopped pecans then drizzle with caramel on top.

Yum! These are always the 2 favorite things I look forward to at Thanksgiving.

What are your favorite Thanksgiving foods?

Our Three Words…

My week in three words:

It’s been a fairly stressful week for all of our family members (except for the boys and me on our Lazy Day Tuesday J). But I am going to look at our week through the positive lens of thankfulness.

Dan

I am thankful for a husband that is a hard worker and is able to balance all he has to balance and do it well. Dan is so stressed right now. He has had more to do this month than is really possible to do, but he is somehow getting it done. He wrote about that on his blog here. Actually I do know how he is getting it done- his complete faith in God. I am so thankful that I have a husband with a strong faith.

I’m also thankful that I have a husband that really cares for me and actually reads my blog and leaves sweet comments. J

D3
I am thankful that D3 is such a thoughtful boy. Every time that he has gotten a piece of candy out of his Halloween bag, he has gotten a piece for the entire family. He wants to share what he has and that warms my heart.

I am thankful also, that even though D3 is going through a bit of a hard time at the moment (maybe thanks to the above mentioned sugar high) and his Momma has had to fuss at him this week, he still writes things like this:


translation: I Love you Mommy Everyday

Blue
I am thankful for my sweet baby who is going through the terrible twos hard core, but still loves to gives hugs and kisses to anyone that will receive them

I’m thankful for a little guy who works so hard with his play and immediately wants to run to me and show me. His newest thing is to come running up to me with his latest block creation and say “Wow” so that I will rave about his awesome tower!

I am so thankful for all these boys that I get to share my life with.

Have a great weekend!!

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