The night before Thanksgiving Groomzilla and I were like two kids on Christmas Eve, we laid in bed excitedly talking about the next days festivities to come. We knew we had a big day ahead of us and forced ourselves to fall asleep. Groomzilla woke up at 6 AM and did all his prep work, he had the stuffing made and the turkey stuffed and in the oven by 7:30 AM. I woke up around 8 AM and began cleaning, and setting up for our expected guests arrival at 1 PM.
A few of our Thanksgiving details and festive decorations:
Since the Florida weather was beautiful and perfect I set up a table outside and one inside which ended up working out perfect. Half ate in and half ate out. (Notice the use of mason jars for my centerpiece vases..LOVE).
Outside Table
Inside Table
I had extra flowers left over so I made a bouquet and put it on the dining room table which later became the dessert table.
I stole this adorable idea of mini gourds in a vase from my BFF Kiki over at
Lillian and Alice.
I purchased these little gourds from Pier One, they are not as glimmerish in the real light.
Accompanied by my "Beautiful New England" book, Gotta love NE in the fall!
Bought these little cuties at Hobby Lobby which I later used some on the dinner tables.
Of course it wouldn't be a holiday without the dog having a festive bandanna. Got the fabric at Joanne's and made him one myself.
Turkey Pre-cook, as I said I was still in bed when this bad boy went in the oven :)
Groomzilla timed it perfect and fed us all by 3 PM which was our original intended dinner time. Unfortunately I have no pictures of all the food since its EVIDENCE of gorging..No, I just forgot to take pictures since I was so busy helping Groomzilla get all the food out and set up for the buffet line.
After dinner, the gals played a silly fun game while the guys started and sat by the fire.
Then all the gals joined the guys by the fire
Poor Mel sat in one of our padded chairs and got a wet butt.
And Jack felt like we both felt after the last guest left at 10 PM. Exhausted.
We lucked out, we had a beautiful day, plenty of yummy food thanks to Gromzilla, myself, and all of our very generous friends who brought all amazing and out of this world delicious contributions. We had tons of laughs between Thanksgiving Bingo, reminiscing of the past, and of course new memories that were created.
I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving, we all have so much to be thankful for.
Now to prepare for the next holiday!! :)
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I am happy to report that all Groomsmen have purchased their suits for the wedding with plenty of time to spare. I almost feel guilty and like I should apologize to them for the lack of faith I had in them. I literally thought I would be calling up their wives/girlfriends/mothers a week before the wedding and saying “Can you PLEASE take Johnny to Macy’s to purchase his suit?!” Perhaps it was the weekly reminder I kept sending to Groomzilla to let his guys know the suit was on sale with an included coupon code incentive if they purchased now. Regardless, I am very proud and thankful that our guys are so on top of things. Perhaps there is some method to Groomzilla’s madness and I just need to step back, delegate some tasks, and realize that everything will get done.
