Thanksgiving Recap

This year John had to work on Thanksgiving, so we had our big meal the Sunday before, which was awesome.  Since John and I are following the Paleo diet, we had a sugar-free, grain-free, dairy-free, low-glycemic-index meal.

Roasted rosemary and thyme sweet potatoes, garlic creamed spinach (with tofu and mayo), beef, apple and walnut stuffed acorn squash, crock pot turkey and gravy.

I was really worried about making this meal because I don't cook, and have never, ever made a Thanksgiving dinner out of food that didn't come out of boxes and cans.  So, it was kind of a big deal for me to produce a meal that was not only edible, but conformed to our diet. 

Pumpkin stuffed bacon (stole the idea from Fussy.org) I cheated a little with a pinch of brownsugar on the tops of these. It was worth it, these were AWESOME!

As nervous as I was, the family declared it a great meal and we had a wonderful day. 

Alex and Max went a little crazy decorating for Thanksgiving.

The leftovers fed us all week and the best part for me was on Thanksgiving day I was able to relax and NOT cook.  Ahhhh :)

Halloween 2011

Halloween is Alex's favorite holiday by far.  He looks forward to it all year and once his birthday is over, he goes into Halloween overdrive. (Max would like me to mention that he likes Halloween, but it's not his favorite holiday, Christmas is). 

This year Alex dressed up as a ghost and Max as Blue Batman.  They looked great and were both very happy with their costumes.

(for trick or treating we ended up putting Alex in his old karate uniform so he was all white underneath his ghost costume.  And warmer.  Max got to wear a pair of feetie jammies underneath his bat suit and he has a blue sweatshirt he wore under his cape when he got cold.)

We were busy this year with Halloween celebrations and these costumes got a lot of wear.  So much wear I was really starting to worry that Alex's ghost costume wouldn't hold up by the actual day.  Every time we went somewhere pieces were falling off.  I was hand washing Max's batman costume every night to get chocolate and paint and mud off of it.

Final total was five parties, a scavenger hunt at the zoo and last night's trick or treating.  The boys got so much candy and little Halloween toys I have no idea what we're going to do with it all!