Thanksgiving Cuteness.. lots of links!

Well since I am kinda slacking over here, I thought I could at least share the posts from last year, I have lots of new followers since then, so maybe these will be new for someone! There are quite a few sooo have fun clicking!

This and more HERE



more HERE

 

 

Still more

Cupcakes HERE

Thanksgiving Snacks  HERE

Kids Table Ideas HERE

Table Settings HERE

ok and HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and lastly HERE

Enjoy the reposting!

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Confession Time!

I haven't put a single Thanksgiving thing up, not 1! 

I haven't posted in a while cause we have been busy and I am having a hard time.

I am trying to lose weight, and become healthier, exercise more and all that. Keep the house clean and organized. Do fun things with the kids. Decorate the house for every season, plan for Christmas. Manage EVERYTHING.. and well I am not doing that great!

I'm having a really hard time balancing it all, I am sure we all struggle with these things in some ways. But I felt weird posting about stuff when there were other things I SHOULD have been doing.

But I am getting better at it, found some exercise I am loving (Zumba, and 30 day shred) so its not taking AS long, I'm finally caught up on chores from our week long trip in October and I gave up on Thanksgiving decorations this year so I saved some time that way.

Hoping I can be a better blogger while I am being healthier, a fun mom, planning my cooking more and keeping things on track!

So now that I've got that out there, I am excited to be with my extended family and eat some yumminess on Thanksgiving, and also excited to hang with some girls with all the nutters out on Black Friday! I will for sure be in Christmas mode next weekend!  Anyone else LOVE Black Friday?



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Thanksgiving Desserts

So I think I am narrowing down the list of what to make for goodies!

I have a whole board on Pinterest JUST for Thanksgiving and Fall desserts! Find it here 

I think I want to make 3 or 4 things!

We have a pretty big family and everyone likes something different. I plan to make only Fall-ish desserts but I am having a hard time narrowing it down, so I think I will go with 1 apple/fruit dessert, 1 pumpkin dessert, 1 chocolate and 1 of something else!

I know for sure I will be using my mini pie maker and making some pies, different varieties so I am not looking at any other pie stuff!

These are the apple ones I am trying to decide between

caramel apple cheesecake bars

apple slab (might be too close to pie though)

caramel stuffed apple cider cookies

these are also kinda pie ish, apples rolled in crescent rolls

Apple Blondies!

Apple cranberry crumble

 

Everything else is kinda all jumbled together but I need to pick a couple from

Blackberry Pie Bars

Pumpkin Whoopie Pies

Pumpkin Fudge

Pumpkin fudge with nuts

Pumpkin Dump Cake

Nutella Filled leaves

And some that are more kid friendly

I really have to decide soon!

Now that soccer is over for us I have plans this weekend to clean out the pantry and fridge to make room for the new ingredients!

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Thanksgiving Dishes

I don't have the room for holiday specific dishes but some of the platters and cuteness sure make me want to find a set to match ALL of them!

We have multi colored polka dot plates that match nothing fall like or Halloween.

But I am pretty attached to them! I even have a spare box in case some break!

If we ever decide to get a plain, match everything set,

I love these

 Country Living brand at Kmart

There are soo many colors and different things for Thanksgiving I can imagine it would get overwhelming if you were just starting to get stuff together! I personally love the orange and plum colors together!

If we were hosting this year and the crazy polka dot dishes weren't an issue, this would be the first thing on my wish list if it weren't so expensive!  Maybe I can find a platter at Goodwill and do my own!

West Elm



And these are kinda charming, I like the bright orange without it coming from a pumpkin!

Cost Plus
And although I don't usually like purple at all, I don't wear purple, I don't usually buy it for Carsyn and we don't have anything else purple, I LOVE purple in the fall!

Target

These aren't very practical but they would look fantastic on Thanksgiving!

source

I've slowly been collecting solid white serving pieces, a random butter dish here, a little sugar bowl. I don't want everything to be too matchy matchy but it still has to work together.

One of my favorite/most used serving things is from Costco, it's a 4 tier plate stand and all 4 tiers rotate out a little so it doesn't take up too much room

Still collecting plain pieces so I can add the fun pieces as I find ones I love!

Other things I still need to decide on this week are

~what goodies we are bringing

~grocery list

~And since October was such a rough month,

 I probably will try and deep clean the living room and kitchen again!

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