Thanksgivings Past

Oh by the way, you can revisit Thanksgivings of the past by clicking HERE.

(I also went and back-blogged adding never-before-seen pictures to our 20-something Thanksgiving from 2005)...

Thanksgiving in CT

Thanksgiving #1 took place at Charles and Jackie's.

Thanksgiving #2 takes place on actual Thanksgiving with Connie and Kristen and their family.

We spent the morning picking out pretty new clothes to wear...





Applying nail polish...



Covering up some disgusting face-monstrosities...



And getting our hair did.




Cute little Tucker waited patiently...



Not-so-cute little Westley is a disgusting zombie-dog...



Finally, we were ready and we headed over to the Gastlers' cousins' home a few miles away in semi-rural Connecticut.

Before dinner we snacked on a spread of dips, cheeses, and scrimps.



The humongous turkey was removed from the oven and de-stuffed...




And we feasted.





The turkey was magnificent, though it's hard to say whether this turkey was better than Jackie's turkey because Jackie's had this element of surprise and we had no idea it was going to be amazing... whereas here attending a giant family function like this, you kind of just expect everything to be amazing because you know all these guys are fantastic cooks.

Either way, the Gastlers and Gastler-cousins were so fun and loud and warm and welcoming and I am very thankful that I had such a great place and family to spend Thanksgiving with before I head to belated Kwan thanksgiving in Chicago next next week.






For dessert there was cookie-dough pie, pumpkin martinis, lemon meringue tarts, and cookies and pastries and oh god I am obese again just looking at these pictures.





Thank you Gastlers!

Road Trip to Gluttony

Robb and I braved traffic late Wednesday to head up to Connie and Kristen's parents' house for a weekend of stuffing our faces.




We arrived and were met with a Spinach, Tomato, Bacon, and Mozzarella Pizza...




And Mrs. Gastler's homemade beef cutlets.



If I had to choose my favorite words in the English language, BEEF and CUTLET would probably be up there in the top five right after MEAT and BALL and MONKY.

Oh god they were breaded and fried with homemade breadcrumbs and I think I had like five of them in one sitting.

Mrs. Gastler is a serious cook with a serious kitchen.



And this was just a warm up to Thanksgiving.

Golden Birthday!

28 on the 28th.

And I'm sporting the zit the size of Connecticut.

Engagement / Birthday Party!

For our engagement/bday party we descended upon Piano's.



Tee showed off her beautiful bling.



And she got to meet her ring designer Zameer.



It was a great reunion of Browns...especially former West Coaster turned East Coaster Browns.







And oh my god Anne and Felix got me the PERFECT present. It's this beautiful vest I've been eye-ing for over a year and somehow they knew the exact one I wanted.



I really have the greatest friends in the entire world.





Love Love Love Love Love.













(I'm sorry I'm in like every other picture. That is so douchey.)