Goodbye, Thanksgiving... Hello, Christmas!

What a great Thanksgiving! We started the holiday with a trip to Hattiesburg to celebrate with my family. There was only six of us, but we literally made enough food to feed 20. It was a bit ridiculous, and we still have leftovers now four days later after eating it for EVERY meal since Thursday...

Here's Granny frying some okra as an appetizer... not that we needed it before the huge buffet of turkey and all the fixings, but it was delish, as usual...

Dad and Derek frying the turkey... we had fried turkey AND baked turkey. Ridiculously good...

Dressing, hashbrown casserole, peas and giblet gravy...

Rolls, yams, corn casserole and cranberry sauce...

If that doesn't make you hungry again just looking at it then something's wrong... not to mention TWO desserts (yes, again, for six people) - pecan pie and white chocolate Oreo pudding pie.

We recovered on Friday and decorated for Christmas! It was exhausting but so worth it. I've decided I could make some extra money for the holidays this year by charging admission to see our decorations. It's like Santa's workshop in my house. ;)

On Saturday we headed to Vicksburg for Thanksgiving again with Derek's family... we had TONS of delicious food once again and continued on our all-we-can-eat binge. Here's a pic of Papaw Gary with his girls...

We took it easy the rest of the weekend thanks in part to all the food we ate over the past few days and sitting by a warm fire in awe of the Christmas decorations. The tree is up, gifts are wrapped and it SMELLS like Christmas, which is the best part. You would never know it's not even December in our house. I LOVE IT!! :)