Thanksgiving At The Beach

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Each year my family rents out a beach house for the week of Thanksgiving. A tradition that started a few years ago when I used to live in North Carolina and is still carried on through this day. It's not only such fun and relaxing trip for our family, but it's a great "content" trip for me because I always get so many projects and photo shoots done. We have things we do every year such as Black Friday shopping, playing board games, arts and crafts and fun competitions. I always come home from this trip feeling extremely grateful–more than usual–because we're all so relaxed and on "vacation" mode so it sort of takes the pressure of the holidays off of our shoulders. Not to mention we're at the beach in November, so can't be mad about that. I wanted to share some things that we did this year along with my "Thanksgiving In Snapshots" video!

Cooking & Baking

Every year we all go above and beyond with cooking. I think it's because we don't cook as elaborate meals at home as we do on vacation–except my brother, he's basically a chef. So this year I made a breakfast board for Thanksgiving morning (click here to read the blog post) and I did a "fancy grilled cheese" night. I made a ton of different types of grilled cheeses (some ingredients include: steak skirt, prosciutto, bacon, tomatoes, onions, lemon zest and multiple types of cheese) and we paired it with tomato soup! It was so fun because you could grab different slices of different sandwiches and it's the perfect "fall-time" dinner. My mom came up with the idea to have a baking competition this year and the winner got a prize! Everyone made really good desserts, but my grandma won the competition! I made a "surprise" Reese's cupcake, where one you open the cupcake a ton of Reese's Pieces spilled out. It was so much and I hope we do it again next year for a redemption round!!

Photo Shoots

The biggest thing I did was take photos. I took two "thrifted fashion" photo shoots just using my tripod, I worked on a secret project (click here to view a sneak peek on Instagram), took maternity photos for Ana (and Patrick apparently since he wanted his own maternity photos 😂) and took family photos. I love taking these photos each year because it's such a different setting and you get new inspiration being in a new place!

The Beach

Now obviously we aren't tanning on the beach, but we take several walks a day. The dogs love it and Oliver loves to dig holes. So we walk around, put our toes in the ocean and dig lots and lots of holes.

Shopping

We always go Black Friday shopping but we also love visiting the local thrift stores. The best part about thrift stores is that you never know what you're going to find so anytime you travel definitely go thrifting. I found some prime gems this year! During Black Friday we also visit this pet store and we always fall in love with the animals there. How cute is this tri-colored kitten 😭😭.

Family Time

On top of all the actives we do we always spend time together! Duh–it's a family vacation! We play games every night, go out to eat a few times and always make each other laugh. The funniest thing that happened this year was while we were eating breakfast one day my dad point out the window and goes "look a peacock." At first we thought he was crazy, but sure enough there was a FREAKING PEACOCK on someone's car 😂. 

A million thank you's isn't enough to my family for putting this trip together. It just gets better each year and I'm so grateful and fortunate to have a family that I enjoy spending time with and enjoy spending time with me (at least I think they do 🙃). 

xoxo, Michele

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