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I’m Thankful…

November 25th, 2010

I’m thankful we are so (overly) blessed we could adopt a family through our church and provide them with a HUGE Thanksgiving feast as well as groceries to last a couple of weeks…

I’m thankful to live in the USA…

I’m thankful for sewing…

I’m thankful for snowman pirates made of play dough… (can you guess who made these?)

I’m thankful for father daughter dances after dinner…

I’m thankful someone is sitting…

I’m thankful for my biz…

Most of all I’m thankful I don’t have to cook today!

What are you thankful for???

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Thanksgiving quickie…

November 24th, 2010

Check out my video (full post on OC Family) to make these beauties:

(How much do you love how the video paused me??!?)

Also see how I transformed my star and “L” for the fall…

Warning: I must have been in the mood for corn.

I discovered an adorable cupcake blog, Cute Cupcakes. All The Time., and saw this beauty. I think it’s a great modification of the Chick-fil-a Cow. In fact, I think I want an In-N-Out Burger…

Speaking of In-N-Out… did you know INO has a race car this year?

I did.

Happy Turkey day! Have fun cooking. If you watch the video you’ll know what I’ll be making this year.

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What did Lincoln say?

November 26th, 2009

In case you wanted to know what Lincoln says about Thanksgiving… (wasn’t he the kind of president you can really respect!?!)

Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation:

Washington, D.C.

October 3, 1863
By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

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Thanksgiving Crafts…

November 25th, 2009

Are you looking for something fun and Thanksgivingy to do tonight!?!
You’ve found it!
Check out what my alter ego She’s Crafty has been making:

Make these adorable Turkeys here… Spice up your Thanksgiving table with these awesome napkin rings here…
Or if you are feeling super silly, make your family into Indians Just like we did last year…You’ll need…
~Printed pictures of each family member
~Feathers
~Indian coloring sheets. Click here, here, here, here and here for the ones I used above.
~Crayons or markers
~Cardboard
1. Print out pictures of your family and enough Indian bodies for everybody.
2. Cut out faces of family members and glue them on the bodies where the face should be. Note: It doesn’t have to be true to size… it’s funnier if the face is a bit bigger!
3. Color
4. Glue picture onto cardboard
5. Cut out around body and face
5. Glue feathers to the top
6. To make them stand on their own glue a scrap of cardboard in a T shape on the back.

Found this craft last year here.

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What did you for Thanksgiving?

November 28th, 2008

Did your Hot Hubby get the kids up and make chocolate chip waffles while you slept in till 8am?

Did your little family pile up in mommy and daddy’s bed to snuggle and read books?
Did you cozy up on the couch with a glass of tea and didn’t care that your house looked like this?

Did you show your son some awesome puddles to jump in and your neighbor said “They always get dirty when they are dressed up” and then she looked shocked when you told her he jumped in on your suggestion?

Did you take the token pictures around the table of your dinner guests?