{Thanksgiving With the Fam} Greve Edition

We only had a great time last Friday with my family celebrating Thanksgiving!

We all had a great time!

Emily and I took pictures, Frank and Nathan threw the football, mom was a cripple (Tiny Tim!) and we had some good conversations, catching up on what's going on.  Our meal was BIG with mom's homemade sweet potatoes, Emily's homemade quinoa stuffed green peppers, Nathan's homemade green bean casserole, my homemade mashed potatoes, my homemade cranberry sauce, steamed asparagus, steamed broccoli, and apple cider-ginger ale for drink!  Everything was soooo goood... I'm pretty sure we all went back for seconds and maybe even thirds... We ended the night by watching R.I.P.D.  It was a good relaxing day and I'm glad we were able to spend such a great Thanksgiving together :)

{Thanksgiving With the Fam} Brazell Edition

This is our first Thanksgiving together and we are so excited!  Frank and I are planning on spending the actual day of Thanksgiving as just the two of us having tofurky roast, grilled asparagus, fresh English peas, homemade cranberry sauce, homemade potatoes, and sweet potatoes.  I'm pumped for this Thursday!  

This past Sunday, we spent some time celebrating Thanksgiving with Frank's family!  We had a great time talking and catching up, I helped in the pie making area {apple, coconut and pretzel} and he played in the guitar area.  We watched A Christmas Story (I had never seen it before), we ate potato soup for dinner, we got all of the Christmas decorations down from the attic, Frank shared the Progress of Redemption, played a little football but came inside because it was too cold.  It was just a good and fun day :) 

This is our first Thanksgiving together!

{Music That Introduces Autumn}

As the cool weather settles on top of the dried colored leaves and beside the scent of pumpkin in the air, I change up my music a little to fit the feel of the season's beginning: peaceful, thin, still, relaxing, reminiscent.

These are a few music groups and artists who I turn on while I sit and enjoy my favorite season making its debut for the year:

Yonder Mountain String Band

Old Crow Medicine Show

Sufjan Stevens

Horse Feathers

Lord Huron

Gungor

The Barr Brothers

The Last Bison

The Devil Makes Three

The Civil Wars

Obviously, I listen to the likes of these all throughout the year.  However, take a listen to one or two of these and you'll understand why they really put me in the autumn mood.  

Nice earthy tones, natural sounds, they make you feel comfortable in the new clean weather and kinda make you want to dance in funny ways (but not at CIU, of course!...)

It's music groups like these that help me embrace my southern-ness.  I love living in the south.  I don't always fit in here, but I don't fit in anywhere else either.  This music makes me feel like I belong, right here in the south, right here in the autumn season.  Ahhh... this time of year is just so nice.