our thanksgiving

One of my dearest friends invited us to stay the week of Thanksgiving with them. When it turned out that my family was just going to spend time together at the lodge, my friend invited us to join them for Thanksgiving. Their family isn't even vegetarian but she went way out of her way to make sure everything was vegan friendly for us. All we had to make was our tofurkey. I know a lot of people prefer other options for their "turkey" but Dave makes an awesome marinade (This time he used aminos, OJ, blackberry preserves, agave)  and has cooking a tofurkey down. 

It was such a relaxing day. Hanging out with friends, babies and puppies. Thank you Allison for making a delicious vegan meal for us! If I had to eat one meal forever this meal would be it. 

June Bug roasting by the fire

Baby Bear being adorable

He wouldn't keep his turkey hat on

Elinor is really into these Little People.

Dave and Elinor loved having a puppy around to play with

sweet potatoes with dandies, brussel sprouts, green beans with a cashew cream gravy and stuffing

This looks like a sweet baby about to eat her Thanksgiving meal but in real life right after I took this she threw an epic meltdown for 45 min while we all ate. Thanks to Ashleigh for stepping in and using your professional preschooling voice to deal with this. Dave and I were about to put her up for sale.

So good!!

Oh and Allison made pies! A vegan pumpkin, vegan chocolate cream and regular pumpkin for her Sean :) 

I really miss these friends. Let's all run away and live in a big house together just like we planned in high school, ok??

tofurkey day

I was sad we weren't going to be with either of our families for Thanksgiving but Amanda and Tre went out of the way to make it an amazing day. They rented a house in Provincetown for a couple of days and invited us for the day. We decided to get a hotel nearby for the night since it is a 3 hour drive. We got to the hotel just in time to see the very end of the parade and got to see Santa! We got ready and went over to their house. It was just us and Tre's mom. She was so sweet and played with Elinor while we (Amanda) got everything together. Tre and Amanda had just got back from Disney and brought back some gifts for Elinor, including a super cute ornament with her name. Tre's mom also gave her a present. She is so spoiled! Amanda made so much amazing food and I want recipes for everything. I only made a salad..it was a pretty awesome salad though.

 view from the back porch

 salad boat

 tofurkey!

no one told me the parade replayed later in the day! We got to watch a little more of it before dinner

 after dinner we walked to the beach

 trying to run to the water

 sand???

Alabama was there too and Elinor got puppy kisses!

We went back to the hotel and went swimming. Elinor wasn't too sure about it at first since we hadn't been in awhile. After awhile she was climbing out (with help) and jumping back in. She would try to jump, doing a big bend and push to her toes but not get any air. She would just lean in and fall into our arms in the pool. 

Thank you so much Amanda, Tre and Judy! We all had so much fun. 

I like food

I realized I had some stashed food pictures that Dave had sent me over the last couple weeks. Oh and a couple from instagram

 tofurkey that Dave made

 Star Wars sugar cookies (recipe from veggie-kids)

 breakfast

 a lot of take out from sugar cane

 Dave made me chocolate chip cookies again! (recipe from ohsheglows)

and we made pizza quinoa casserole (recipe from peas and thank you)

we are starting to be able to cook more since little miss is happy to lay on her playmat. Most nights at least!