gingerbread men.

gingerbread men have invaded our house, or at least Austin would claim this. gingerbread cookies are my favorite, and probably Austin's like 5th favorite cookie; hence I made a ton! all sorts of gingerbread men came out of the batch, because lets face it- decorating the same little smiley face guy with two buttons over and over again gets pretttty boring, so i decided to have a fun party in decorating my guys.

here are some of my favorites:

From Top Left to Bottom Right: zombie, pirate, regular joe shmo, mummy, and harry potter!

the raptors.

This year my intramural soccer team won! 

We got the coveted shirts that read "champion" really big on the back, so we can publicly display our awesomeness wherever we go. 

Champion quality, obviously. 

gobble til ya wobble.

Although Austin and I had many generous offers from friends to join them and their families for Thanksgiving, we ended up celebrating the day just the two of us-- and we were really excited about it! It was a very nice relaxing day for us, and thankfully we had no emergency disasters in the kitchen! We were very impressed with that.

I tasked Austin with the turkey:

And thanks to Austin (and Martha Stewart) it came out great!

I made the 2nd most important part--pumpkin pie!!

And thenn, we really enjoyed ourselves...

We loved our sweet gravy bowl!

Happy 1st Thanksgiving!