Thanksgiving Recap

This is way late but I though I would share anyway.  Thanksgiving trip recap and go.

We made the trek to North Carolina to see both of our families, it's always nice when we can work that in.  It was a couple of days filled with food, a little shopping and time together.

Pretty much tradition now (and I'm totally ok with it) to go to Cracker Barrel at least one morning with my husband and Father-in-Law for breakfast.  I love Cracker Barrel, good food, vintage atmosphere and cute gift shop!  What's your favorite thing to order at Cracker Barrel??  For breakfast I love the fresh start sampler (eggs, bacon, yogurt parfait and a big blueberry muffin) and of course LOTS of coffee!!  

We spent Thanksgiving with my husbands family (we rotate years).  Lots of good food, relaxing and my husband got to shoot guns.

I also got to break out my Carhartt, which is a rare occurrence in Alabama.  Later that night we went "Black Friday" shopping with my cousin-in-law, her fiance, my husband, and mother-in-law.  If you haven't seen my Black Friday haul check it out here.

On Friday we drove to see my family and spend a couple of days with them.  We had our second Thanksgiving dinner and stuffed ourselves yet again.

There is an amish store near where I grew up and they make the best donuts!  They only sell them on Saturdays and you have to be pretty lucky to grab them.  We ended up with two bags.  They were warm and delicious...oh my goodness so good!

In case you are new here my family raises beef cows.  I grew up on a farm showing cattle.  They also have a few horses that my sister handles.  She needed to go to a local western store to check out a few things so we tagged along.  I got to let my inner cowgirl out this trip and I loved it!

I always have to stop by the barn when I am home, it's not really home unless I've been to the barn.

Up close and personal with my sister's dog Apache.

My sister recently got another horse so all three of us got to go on a trail ride.  I hadn't been riding in years so it was a little bit of an adventure, new horse and a semi new rider resulted in some testing from the horse.  We both figured each other out and ended up having a nice ride.  My legs also let me know I hadn't done that in a while the next morning...  

There was a new baby bull calf born a few weeks ago that we got to check out.  How cute is he??

We also got to attend church at the church I grew up in, it is also where Kyle and I got married.  I always love getting to go back to church there with my family.  

We had such a great trip spending time with family, eating good food and relaxing.  I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are having a wonderful holiday season!    

Weekend Adventures

New thing starting here, I want to share our weekend adventures with you.  Now we don't always have super exciting weekends so I may not always share but maybe this will push us to do fun tings more often...

So this past weekend Kyle and I decided to make a drive and go to the Ave Maria Grotto.  I randomly found it on Groupon and thought it looked interesting.  We were also celebrating our three year wedding anniversary, also how has it been three years??

We decided to make a day of it and started out at a new donut shop in town.  They specialize in cold brew so we got that, two donuts (blueberry cake for me and Boston creme for Kyle) and a breakfast sandwich.    

It was really cute inside, not a lot of seating but the atmosphere was nice and relaxed.

Cold brew was not my favorite, it was pretty bitter even with cream and sugar but I needed the caffeine.

I think the breakfast sandwich was the winner, obviously see how much he is enjoying it.

We then went to the Ave Maria Grotto.  The Grotto is a four acre park on the grounds of St. Bernard Abbey with 125 handmade miniature reproductions of  some of the most famous religious structures in the world.  It is known as "Jerusalem in Miniature".

It was a cool thing to see, the handiwork was really neat.

Since we drove quite a ways and were passing through Birmingham we decided to go ahead and stop in and shop around.  We walked around the mall and you can't not stop in the Forever21.  They pretty much always have a sale going on.  I hunted around for a while in their clearance and ended up finding this faux leather jacket that I LOVE!!

It is the prettiest baby blue color and has all these studs.  I love the details.  It makes me think of a BlankNYC jacket that I was obsessed with.

It was originally $50 but it was marked down and then was on sale for another 50% off.  I ended up getting this jacket for around $12!!  Such a steal!

We also went out for a nice dinner at LongHorn.  We had a really great time exploring around and spending time together. 

Let me know what y'all have been doing over the weekend!