Who are you and what have you done with my babies?!?!

Well ... Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!!! We had a great day with lots of food and good friends.....(and wine)!! I have to give a big shout out to Willie Birds Turkey .....oh man it was hands down the best smoked turkey on the entire planet and it will be our bird of choice for every future holiday meal that we host!!! It rocked the house .... for those of you who don't live near us you can now find Willie Birds in the Williams Sonoma catalog or online. You will pay a pretty penny for that turkey and the WS name but I assure you ...you WILL love you some WB turkey!!! FYI ... we don't pay near that being locals and all!!! OH Willie where have you been all my life. Jon sort of almost let us drink some of his prized collection of wine but just couldn't bring himself to do it in the end. He did open some good wine but not THE good wine!!! Everyone brought wine too and we had some great things to try!!! I do realize that it sounds like we were swimming in wine but there were 10 adults here ... you need alot for that many wine lovers!!! I made an awesome-ish butternut squash gratin (along with some other sides, but they don't have funny stories)...I worked so hard to decide what to use the squash in ...most butternut recipes are soups and I don't have enough soup serving dishes .... so I ended up combining 2 recipes and blah blah blah.....then just when we were all done eating I realized that I never took it out of the oven for everyone....and by then we were all too stuffed to eat it ....so needless to say I am all butternut squashed out!!! So how was your day???
I have had a bit of a stressful 2 days though ... because of course Edie and Ella (mostly Edie) have decided to tic another milestone off the list......I usually like to spend time researching things before I have to buy them. I like to read reviews, shop around (online of course) for the best price, etc....but little Ms. EC had other plans for me ....she decided yesterday would be a great time to climb out of her crib. So I had to spend most of today deciding what to do...but something had to be done because she came to my room this morning with a bloody lip. I, of course, lost the conversion kit for her crib ...so I needed to either find a rail or get a toddler bed or just get them both twin beds.....you see my dilemma. The rails are 75 dollars and just any old bed rail won't work on a crib ...I don't want to get them twin beds all hastily because I want to get them good quality stuff and for that I need research!!! So I headed out and decided to whip into Walmart ... they had a 55 dollar toddler bed. PERFECT!!! They only had one but that was OK....I thought I would just keep Ella in her crib for a while anyway. But just before bed tonight she seemed so pitiful in her caged in crib while Edie ran free so I took off the front of her crib too. She does not have any rails but I made her a pallet on the floor just in case she rolls out. So here they are in their new big girl sleeping devices.........






Auntie Margaret made Ella and Edie the most adorable Alabama outfits ... they are fantastic!!! She is so talented .. you can't even tell that they are hand made really.....If we lived closer I would so hit her up to teach me how to sew......




Ella Grace ......loves to carry purses!!!!

I have been hanging lots of pictures lately and making some crafty things for Christmas, etc......and I think that someone has been watching me.....