Happy Thanksgiving Monday!
Thank you for your amazing comments on my Project Food Blog Challenge #4 post yesterday! If you enjoyed my post and want to see me make it to the next round I would appreciate your vote (you click the heart). I have a fun idea for challenge #5 so I am crossing my fingers big time.
Where did I leave off before the last challenge consumed my life? lol. Oh yes, I was enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving at my in laws. :)
Their house is a century home from the 1800’s. They added on a new extension several years ago. This below is the original stone wall that used to be the outside of the house.
Now it is part of the living/dining room.
In the ‘original’ part of the house:
Eric with his apple juice! ;)
He wanted me to report to you- still not a lick of pop since he cut it out in March 2010! Go Eric. :)
My mother-in-law can decorate a gorgeous table I tell ya…
Every year she decorates the table in a new way and she always blows us away with what she throws together. I guess that is the interior designer in her coming out!
Luckily it was gorgeous weather this weekend because the boat lift and dock had to be taken out of the water!
Thanksgiving dinner was fabulous!
We were celebrating FOUR things: Thanksgiving, my mother-in-law Margaret’s birthday, our Aunt Sheila’s birthday, and my brother-in-law Steve and future sis-in law Joanne’s recent engagement (!!!).
Good times!
The food was also delicious.
I enjoyed brussels sprouts (the best I have ever had), carrots, asparagus, lentil salad, croquette, and bread.
Also enjoyed a couple glasses of red wine!
Eric + beer
And then some celebratory champagne for Steve and Joanne’s engagement…
They are so cute together.
Very happy for them. :)
Dessert time.
I brought along my cakes and Sheila also contributed a couple desserts too.
Gift time and performances by our niece and nephew!
Then we had performances by Sketchie…
We taught Sketchie a few tricks: shake a paw, shake the other paw, and stand on two legs. As you can tell by his face he does NOT enjoy doing tricks, but he will do it for treats. ;)
He loved visiting his ‘brothers’ Clancy and Finnegan.
Eric and I slept in the ‘music room’ by a warm & cozy electric fireplace! I was so thrilled to have it by the bed because it was FREEZING in that room!
I was the first one up in the house on Sunday morning! Well, that isn’t totally true, the cats were all up. ;)
I dragged my butt out of bed and watched the sun rise over the water.
I tried to get as much done on my Project Food Blog post as I could before anyone was up.
For breakfast I made Sweet Potato Gingerbread Vegan Overnight oats. This is one of my favourite new combos. It is so delicious it doesn’t even need any maple syrup!
In the VOO: 1/2 cup regular oats, 1 cup almond milk, 1 tbsp blackstrap molasses, 1/2 cup sweet potato puree, pinch or two of cinnamon, 2 tbsp chia seeds.
Delicious and so filling.
The scenery on the 3 hour drive home was lovely and helped the time go by quickly.
All was going fabulous until we got pulled over by a cop, not for speeding, but because our plate stickers were expired and we got handed a $110 ticket. Major whoops. We actually went to renew the stickers a month or two ago, but we didn’t have a required document so we left, and then we forgot to go back and do it.
I always feel so guilty + bad when I do something like that. I am like a dog with my tail between my legs looking at the cop. lol.
However, I am truly thankful for so much in my life and no ticket is going to ruin a great weekend with loved ones!
While today is a holiday Eric and I are both hard at work (me on my bakery orders and him on the hardwood), so I better get back to it!
aw, boo to tickets. maybe this’ll cheer you up: happy canadian thanksgiving, <3 cakewrecks! http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/2010/10/something-about-moose.html
Cute pics, you look so pretty in that outfit! And a big high five to Eric for being off of pop for that long – yay! Haha I love that picture of sketchie with his paw out. I’ve seen that look on my cats face before lol ;)
Good luck on project food blog. I voted for you this morning so here’s hoping you make it to the next round!
Wow – everything looks and sounds so wonderful!
(well except for the ticket!)
That is a perfect home for family holidays! I love the antiquated feel, especially the exposed stone wall. C’est parfait! It looks like you all had a wonderful time, even the sketchie furball! :)
What a lovely evening. I want that plate of food RIGHT now. Can you bring those cakes to SanFran? :)
Eric’s family looks very smart :-) Like a family of professors!!! Hehe.
Looks delicious! I thought it was funny that the black chest in the house with the Japanese art is the same exact one that my parents have back home too! Hahaha. Glad you had a wonderful holiday!
Angela, looks like a great time. i can not wait to american thanksgiving. i am hungry just thinking about it.
i have a stupid questions, my fiance claims that the cat finnegan i think, the second cat picture the cat on the right is totally photoshoped. honselty i do not care either way minus the 5 theoretical bucks that we always wager against each other. do you think you can settle this, though either way he will think his is right but its worth a shot?!
Angela you can ignore that and not post it. my fiance did some google and now believes in marble bengal. sorry to waste your time. but for real your looks like a great time.
Brad’s thanksgiving is now complete and he thanks you for the sketchie photos
In other news – I made your Frank’s approved loaf and brought it to Thanksgiving dinner last night, it went over quite well!
That looks like a wonderful Thanksgiving! :)
And I love that picture of the trees along the highway. I’ve had to do so much driving this weekend, but I don’t even mind because of how beautiful the scenery is.
Boo to the ticket!
I always find that the coppers are out in full force on Thanksgiving weekend…too bad!
I love that pic of the two kitties on the window ledge…so precious!
I love your Thanksgiving outfit! We go up to Lake Superior for family vacations. I just love watching the sun set over the water. It is so peaceful and calm.
Looks like a fantastic celebration! I think my heart swelled while I was reading this post:-).
Happy Thanksgiving Angela!!! It looks like a beautiful holiday was enjoyed. :)
wonderful pictures!!
Such a beautiful Thanksgiving!! Your mother-in-law’s home is so beautiful, I love he old stone wall being on the inside :) Looks like a great weekend, what a nice get-away for you and Eric!! Good luck with the challenge, voted for you already!!
I love seeing pictures of other people’s Thanksgiving celebrations – haven’t been home for a holiday in years, and this way I get to live vicariously through the family good times of others!
That’s a beautiful house, too – truly appreciated the stone wall – I hope to one day live in an 18th century farmhouse, somewhere!
Good luck with the next round of Project Food Blog!
What a delicious meal and that house is GORGEOUS!
What a lovely Thanksgiving you had. And…Sketchie can do tricks?! He’s the best cat ever. :P
Great pictures. What a beautiful table! I love that spotted cat! So pretty.
Sketchie: “Whut. Who are you. What do you want.” Looks like so much fun, happy Canadian Thanksgiving! :D
What a fun time! So lame about the ticket. :(
Your house is so cozy! Make me wanna move to Canada :-)
Great post and photos Ang. Crappy about your run in with the fuzz but as you said there are worse things in life!
Have a great week baking and blogging! Maybe the kids will come jump in your leaves soon
Just made those sweet potato oats (but hot)….so freaking good!!! And I needed something to use up my can of sweet potato puree! :)
What a fun time! Congratulations to the engaged couple!
The oats look amazing. I think I am going to miss oats the most now that I was diagnosed with celiac.
I love the IL’s home and your MIL does some wonderful decorating. I especially love the table.
What a beautiful home and location. It looked like the perfect setting for Thanksgiving. I’m surprised at how well it looked like Sketchie and your in-laws cats got along. Mine would’ve been hissing and spitting (and hiding) the entire time!
oh my gosh. I am not a cat person, but Sketchie is absolutely beautiful! and adorable! love when you post pics of him! :-)
Wow, that table, house and meal are gorgeous!
This looks wonderful! Surrounded by amazing food and great people. I love Thanksgiving.
Sorry about the ticket…I just hate the feeling when you see those lights flashing behind you. Not that I am speaking from experience, haha.
What a wonderful family celebration!!! Everything looked great ; )
All of that food looks great and it looks like a wonderful celebration.
Oh yum those gingerbread overnight oats look so amazing! I will have to give them a try… I’ve been craving some fall flavours :)
Hi Everyone… I am a friend of Angela’s Mom-in-law.
The pictures of this truly wonderful Family gathering really tells the story of love
and life in the Liddon Family. Happy Thanksgiving to all involved and Happy Engagement
to the Happy Couple. If this is what Thanksgiving looks like in this home ,
one can only imagine what Christmas will look like :)
Slainte to All…. and many many more Happy Gatherings !
Sherrie Cooper