thanksgiving weekend recap.

after a wednesday night at selwyn, and lounging around thursday morning, court and i finally headed to our parents' house around noon on thanksgiving. we helped get the reminder of the set-up done and i made the mashed potatoes, a thanksgiving tradition! it was a "small" crowd this year with only about 20 people in attendance. after consuming an insane amount of food, i literally could not keep my eyes open. i snuck upstairs and fell asleep for a solid 2 hours before derrick woke me up to begin drinksgiving!

 

 

the night ended how it always does at the fowlkes house on holidays - with an awesome bonfire & a glass of wine! i could sum up all i'm thankful for, but i'll spare you since i know you don't care anymore after reading facebook posts for the last 30 days.

 

friday morning we woke up to chickfila, courtesy of my sister. we hung around, watched the hunger games, and finally made it out of our pjs and back to our side of town around 5pm. derrick, leigh, and i met up with my mom & brian at painting with a twist for my mom's thanksgiving celebration. we did a lot of drinking and a lot of painting and had a great time.

 

 

 

saturday morning i woke up in total football mode! rivalry saturday finally arrived and boy oh boy, it did not disappoint. after lsu/arkansas on friday, i knew we were in for a treat this year. we watched the noon & 3:30pm game over at brad's and had burgers and beer. around half time of the bama/auburn game, i headed to icehouse to meet my parents. we watched the gamecocks kick some tiger tail for the 5th year in a row & i enjoyed every moment of it. after the game, i met back up with the boys to take on montford. it was a fun night celebrating a huge gamecock win!

 

 

{fireball & gamecocks}

sunday was a lazy day of catching up on sleep & working for a few hours. my liver needs a break after the last few days weeks!

rewind: friendsgiving 2012.

to say "i've been busy," is the understatement of the century. i've been married to my job since, well, july? but the past month has been insane, leaving little room for much of anything, especially blogging! however, this event was too special not to have a post, so rewind with me back to the tuesday before thanksgiving...

roomie amanda texted us few weeks before thanksgiving and told us that her work was giving out free turkeys to all their employees . i know, nice employer, right? so we figured since we'd be going to our parent's houses for actual thanksgiving, that we would throw a "friendsgiving!" we picked a date, sent out the invites via the oh so fabulous paperless post, and started planning.

once in a blue moon, working at an event venue has its perks. this was definitly one of those times. we had about 30 people RSVP for the party, but where the heck were 30 people going to sit? solution: borrow tables & chairs from work. i rented some dinner party essentials and borrowed some as well. we got everything set up on monday night, leaving just the food to be cooked on tuesday. guests arrived around 7:15pm and we sat down for dinner about an hour later. let me just say, i don't know how moms do this every holiday! i'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking...

{pumped about our first turkey!}

{meet henry. yes, we named it.}

{panoramic view... after moving half our furniture into the garage}

{the set up}

{katie's banner}

{i made baked corn...}

{ ...and mashed potatoes}

{me and d were so proud of the turkey}

{momma helping us derrick carve}

{pals!}

it took a lot of work, and a lot of help from a lot of sweet people to pull off this party, but we did it! it was such a fun night spent with so many people that are so important to us.  a special thanks to...

derrick, for letting me borrow his car to run things back and forth from work and also carving the turkey & the ham; to my mom, for also helping transport chairs, helping us with the turkey, letting me borrow her silverware and making dessert for a party she didn't even attend; to my dad & stepmom for answering all my crazy questions about cooking the turkey; to party reflections, for the linens, napkins, plates, and glasses and for honoring my work discount for a personal event; to everyone who brought a casserole or dessert or alcohol; to andy for his awesome toast; to courtney for making everyone go around the room and say what they are thankful for, that was hilarious/awesome; to everyone who stayed to help us clean up; and lastly, thanks to my roomies! we may just have to make this an annual event!