M. Sullivan Photography Cooking, Family, Holidays, Photos

Thanksgiving Preparations

During our Thanksgiving preparations today, a package arrived by UPS.  A beautiful cookbook was delivered to my door compliments of The Pioneer Woman.  I found the perfect spot to display it on my coffee table.

Bountiful
Beautiful Book
Gift From Ree

I look forward to trying some of the recipes in the near future, but today I had to focus on Thanksgiving.  Here are a few of the items that I prepared for our big day tomorrow.

Cranberry Sauce
Rolls
Jell-O Salad
Pumpkin Pie

I also prepped ingredients for stuffing, baked lemon bars, made chocolate chip cookie dough (a dessert request by Sebastian), put together a relish tray, made trail mix and finished cleaning the house.  Tomorrow will start with baking the turkey, making mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, garden salad and setting the table.

Here is the floral centerpiece Mike picked out with a little help from our friend Amy who happened to be at the store.

Pretty Flowers

And one random photo of the cribbage board we gave Mike for his birthday this past August.  I still love looking at it.

Cribbage Anyone?

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

M. Sullivan Photography Basketball, Birds, Family, Landscapes, Photos, Weather

Fall

The past several weeks have been filled with cooler temps and shorter days.  Sophia continues her piano lessons and gymnastics every week.  Sebastian started basketball a few weeks ago and had his first tournament this past weekend.  Mike took a work trip to Santa Clara, California.  My photography has been neglected due to busy weekends and the lack of daylight when I finally leave work for the day.  Here are the few photos that I’ve taken since late October.

Snow Covered Pumpkins
Sprinkled With Snow
Fuchsia
Gray & White
Brown & White
Feeding Time
More Hungry Geese
Feeding Time Is Over
Gaggle Of Geese

Halloween…

Jack-O-Lantern Carving
Frankenstein
Halloween Parade – Fortune Teller

Basketball Tournament…

Go Red #3!
Sunset
Colorful Skies
M. Sullivan Photography Animals, Family, Photos

Open Season

It was the second weekend of deer hunting season in Minnesota.  My brothers and nephews are deer hunters.  They would have been very jealous to see what was resting in our next-door neighbors’ backyard this morning.  I tried to sneak up behind the bushes and catch a shot (photo) of him as he rested.  He was very alert and didn’t appreciate my interruption. He got up right away and kept a cautious look towards me.

Buck
Eight Point Buck
Majestic
Walking Away

My brothers hunted at my Mom’s house this weekend and went home empty-handed.  I imagine this buck has been enjoying city living protected from all the hunters.