Some Pre and Post Thanksgiving Madness

Happy Thanksgiving! We had a great time celebrating this year, but it was busy!  We stayed in the Cities and celebrated with the Abbas side of the family this year.  I made a delicious orange vanilla monkey bread courtesy of a recipe from The Pioneer Woman (you can find the recipe on a simple google search).  Here's mine:

YUM!

I also made delicious sweet potatoes and a yummy pumpkin dessert.

Thankful for these turkeys!

And some other updates on events....

Birthday Wrap-up:

I spent some of the afternoon working on a Christmas craft project and I also made a delicious no-bake dessert to enjoy!  I hope to finish the project today (need to add the lights!) and then we'll put it out front.  Here it is in the current state.  And yes, I realize that I can not follow a simple red-green-red-green pattern!  LOL!

We went to dinner at Chili's to celebrate!

 Too bad I didn't do my hair! Oh well - it's my birthday so I can do what I want, right?!

Ella and her besties participated in the Tiger Dance Team clinic last weekend. 

They had a great time!

Black Friday tradition continues!  Ella and I headed out to Ulta, but it was so quiet in the lots that we also went to Kohls and Target!  It was crazy how non-busy all the stores were - but, I'll take it!  We snagged a few great deals.

And then we fueled up with some deliciousness from Starbucks!

 And, lastly....

 Stay tuned for some epic Abbas selfies.  LOL!