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family, holidays, love, Marriage, Maui life, ohana, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving day, thanksgiving holiday
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year. It was the first year Colt and I actually had Thanksgiving day off together since 2009 and we were really looking forward to hosting it our new place. I spent the whole week shopping so we had a ton of food and although it was different then what we had originally expected it was still perfect which made it easy to count our blessings rather than our worries.
This was Colt’s second year preparing “the bird” 
23 pounds of pure delight 
Nothing like morning squats to get that bird to fit in the oven
My 2nd year making Colt’s favorite “green bean casserole” 
Adding some extra love 
He was so happy and it came out so GOOD…
it was juicy, seasoned and not dry, whew! 
I was one happy girl. 
We asked Papa to do the honors of cutting the bird and as you can see he was thrilled 
Teaching the boy how to carve the turkey
The Thanksgiving spread 
Love these two men
Me and Papa 
Dessert time with friends
My favorite
Man down, the turkey coma hit the Stewart household hard
Wrapping up the thanksgiving holiday is always bittersweet for me. I LOVE Thanksgiving, it’s truly my favorite holiday. My father in law asked me last night why it was my favorite and it’s an easy question to answer, it’s still the ONLY holiday that is family and friend focused, not based on what we don’t have but rather on what we do have and what we are thankful for plus it’s food focused rather than present focused. What’s not to LOVE?
This year although grateful for so many things including the acceptance this Thanksgiving has brought to me. I would have to say above all I am most grateful for my beautiful marriage, new traditions and my amazing husband. He is kindhearted, caring, loving, giving, funny, supportive, patient, understanding but even more than all that he strives to be the best husband he can possibly be and I couldn’t be more thankful for that.
I hope you all had a blessed and FULL Thanksgiving filled with the people and food that you love! As we officially kick off the 2013 holiday craziness, I am wishing you all a happy, healthy, stress free & non-humbug season.
Chasing the Maui Son ✨ 