Scenes from the Francisco House - Thanksgiving 2010

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! My favorite time of year. So much so, that our tradition of putting the Christmas tree up on the Saturday after Thanksgiving was pushed earlier by 3 days to actual Thanksgiving day. This gives us even more time to enjoy the holiday spirit. And although, in the 5 years we've lived in California, we have yet to be able to spend Thanksgiving with family, we've established a "steep" tradition by going all out anyway. And each year we've invited a few chosen "lucky" guests to be with us. Seems to rotate every year but that only means we have lots of friends here :-) Traditional Thanksgiving turkey, stuffing and gravy, roasted red potatoes, roasted bruseels sprouts and asparagus, baby back ribs brought to us by our guests as well as both pecan and apple pies (also brought by Dan and Tracy) and French Vanilla Ice cream. And of course PInot Noir!

For those of you that don't know, this is likely Sara's first (and only) holiday in this house. Much like we Jeremy, it is looking like Sara will be spending her first birthday in a new house! We are scheduled to close escrow in early January and lots of thing can still fall through, but pending a smooth appraisal, funding, final inspection, etc, we should be moving in middle January. Not looking forward to the moving part, but the house we will be moving into is beautiful. A little extra square footage, a 4th bedroom, 3 FULL baths instead of the 2.5 we have now and a smarter layout and better use of space of the master suite. Visitors welcome!

Anyway, below are some scenes from Thanksgiving - Francisco. Also be on the lookout for one of my favorite things to do - a Christmas slideshow with cool music playing. That will probably appear on Facebook though, not here. They don't seem to care about licensing rights over there like they do on this blog :-)

Our guests, newlyweds Dan and Tracy Knight


After 5 years of being the carver, I switched techniques and was infinitely more successful!



Mom, with her beautiful new haircut, and her beautiful children.


The two completely enjoy each other now! Nothing warmer in the house on Thanksgiving day than our 2 children playing and goofing around with each other. The other day, Jeremy told me his best friend was Sara.