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Thanksgiving

I love Thanksgiving. That time of year where you can stuff your face with all sorts of yummy food! Jeff and I started off at my parent's house on the morning of Thanksgiving. We got a homemade breakfast to start the day off right.


Then other family started to show up including my adorable niece, Tillie.



I have to say, I just love this picture of him!

Then we played a family game of Joker Poker when my grandparents came. I must say that it is so neat having them close by. For the longest time they lived in Colorado and they just recently moved here to NC. I love getting to spend holidays and other special days with them more frequently now!



Then because we are the Riegel girls, we had to do a photo shoot outside with all of the women:








This is just some of the food at my parent's house. It included: mashed potatoes, yeast bread, turkey, cranberry jelly, mixed vegetable casserole, cheesy green beans and dessert. Notice the cute place settings that my grandma made for us.

Tillie trying her first mashed potatoes:


Our desserts are below. Katie made a fancy apple pie and grandma and grandpa made a chocolate, salted caramel, pecan pie:





We then went to Jeff's parent's house for dinner. Needless to say, we were 
both stuffed! Here are some family pictures from Jeff's side of the family.

Jeff, his brothers, and his cousin:



Jeff's dad, aunts, and cousin:


Our adorably cute nephews:

I think my favorite part about Thanksgiving is getting to spend time with family!

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