How fabulous! The kids are beautiful and the food looks yummy. I can't wait for Beau's first loose tooth. I'll be waiting for the answer to that thought provoking question.

Great pictures!!

Oh by the way, our tooth fairy makes "fairy dust" from all the teeth.

The tooth fairy saves them for you,of course in a ziploc bag.................silly.When you start dating your mom suddenly finds them to them show to your date.The tooth fairy only lost one of Logans,on the playgound.Great pictures,Annie.Thanks for sharing.

SHelley

Thanks for sharing. Family, friends and fantastic food. What could be better?

Annie I love when you share your family dinners with us. The princess is a beauty just like her mom and aunt. I can't believe Bud is half the weight of his Great Grandmother.

Ann

Love the pictures. Our tooth fairy always left the teeth for our children because our oldest refused to put his tooth under his pillow because he didn't want the tooth fairy to take his tooth. We finally came up with the idea that he should write a note to the fairy telling her that tooth was there just for "proof" that it had actually come out, and could she leave the tooth for him to keep. Of, course the tooth fairy obliged and all was happy in our home.

Another neat idea the tooth fairy started after a few teeth was instead of leaving a dollar, she left foreign coins. My kids always thought this was really cool because they thought the tooth fairy just picked up these coins while she was in the country of another kid that had lost a tooth on the same day as them, so they looked forward to seeing where the tooth fairy traveled before coming to our house!

Annie, your pictures are wonderful! I think that Bud resembles his great grandmother. And all 3 of your girls are still as beautiful as ever - maybe even more so. Must get that gene from their mom and grandma.

The Tooth Fiary saves them up to make dentures for retired house elves who can't afford pearl teeth.

We need more pix of Elery!

(I've been meaning to ask how Cooper is getting along with TDCFH)

What a beautiful family, and what lovely photos of them and the food! Thanks so much for sharing the events!
Sooz
P.S. I think the tooth fairy recycle them--(found this explanation on line) She puts them in a large container until she has one million and then she grinds them into dust. She flies as high as she can and then sprinkles the dust in a swirling motion until a star forms.
We are stardust, we are golden.

So cute, lovely spread !!

Great pics Annie ! Thanks for inviting us!

Annie you have a lovely family....two beautiful daughters and two cute grandkids. I wish mine were small again and I could watch them grow up once more.

What a great family dinner!

Thanks for letting us have a look at your Thanksgiving!

SharonCb

Thank you, everyone, for the input on the tooth fairy. Renee, I love your explanation, LOL, I wonder if the Princess would go for that?

Actually, Bud was very offended about the tooth fairy. He explained yesterday that the fairy CAME RIGHT INTO HIS HOUSE AND TOOK HIS SISTER'S TOOTH! (grin) He wasn't happy at all...

Jessica, Elery and I were taking the pictures, we seldom make it into pictures ourselves somehow. I'd like to blame the blurry cheesecake picture on him, but that was mine.

As for Cooper and the Dead Cat From He!!, well, they're learning. They'll both occupy the same room but Cooper wants to play with her so badly that he can't help himself. Eventually he has to stick that nose somewhere that she can reach it and she gives him a slap. In her favor, she's stopped using her claws. Pancho, now? After two years he still growls at the Dead Cat and she still slaps the snot out of him. And she uses her claws, they just hate each other. Of course, Pancho hates Cooper too and spends all his time growling at him. We've started calling him "Walter" after the crabby old man puppet that Jeff Dunham has.

Annie

What fun! Lovely family, lovely food and a great looking table that the Princess set.

Lee

So the venerable Monkey Princess greenlighted Ashley to remove her first toof. She's not only cute, she's brave! And she loves orange soda, just like her auntie M.

Say, shouldn't Bud be the one hoisting grandma?

Nice spread! Hope your Thanksgiving was as special as those kids.

Sol

Looks awesome. PLease share the recipe for the buckeye cake, as blurry as it was I still want a piece :)

The tooth fairy grinds your teeth and turns it into glitter. You can tell it's true because she leaves a trail as she flies around the room and out the window. (PITA to vacuum but works even now and they are 10!)

Some of the other ideas are awesome too. I like the foreign coins and the stars

I'd not heard of Buckeye Cake, Annie, so Googled it. Epicurious says it's a chocolate & peanut butter cake. Nestle has an award-winning, 960-calorie-a-slice (!!!!) version from a Linda D. in Ventura, California.

Let's have yours!

Here is a link that might be useful: Buckeye Cake

Bruvver is quite a bruiser! Great pix Annie, even the blurry ones.

Lovely pictures, beautiful family, and delicious looking foods. Couldn't ask for more! Thanks for sharing! Al

Another great looking meal and family. It's always so nice to see your pics. I think Ashley looks just like you, Annie. As pretty as her Mama is. Of course, Amanda's pretty too. Y'all are a good looking family.

Looks like a great TG to me Annie. I don't see the GBC on the table. Did you forget it in the oven/MW? : ) I'm drooling over that buckeye cake right now!

David

Nope, David, the casserole was there. That picture with the table full of food? Green Bean Casserole is at the very far end, behind the platter of turkey, LOL, where I could avoid it.

Kathleen, yes, that is the recipe. All 960 calories worth of it, and the kids just love the stuff. What's not to like about chocolate, peanut butter and more chocolate?

Annie

Thanks for sharing your pictures, Annie. You have a beautiful family. Your Thanksgiving looked like the perfect combination of love, fun, and wonderful food!

The Monkey Princess is a brave soul...so is Ashley!

Thank you for sharing your Thanksgiving day with us. I always look forward to seeing your pictures! Great looking food and a beautiful family.

Well, Karen, now that Ashley is doing her internship at Spectrum Health in the Radiology Department, why, she's practically the family doctor. (grin) She told The Princess that if that tooth came out, the Tooth Fairy would leave a dollar AND Aunt Ashley would give her another dollar.

Yup, the tooth definitely had to go. LOL

Annie

Really cute pictures Annie - your family and food look wonderful! Thank you for sharing with us.

Essential ingredients in any Thanksgiving recipe: Add family and friends, mix thoroughly.

What a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner you had. It reminds me of a Norman Rockwell painting of a Thanksgiving dinner.

dcarch

Looks like a perfect day to me, Annie! Toof Fairy and all!
I see g-grandma is getting in the "Bruvver holding" while she still can.
Next year she can sit on HIS lap!!

And, yes, we NEED the Buckeye cake recipe!
Christmas is coming you know.

Deanna

Deanna, click on Kathleen's link, there's the recipe. It's really pretty easy, The Princess made the ganache. I put the peanut butter fudge filling in a round cake pan lined with saran wrap and froze it, so I could just plop it on top of the cake layer and then cover it with ganache.

It worked pretty well....

dcarch, it doesn't have the design elements of your table, but it was pretty darned good!

Annie

Okay, I see it now....down there by the sweet potoatoes with the marshmallows. I remember when it ended up on the floor of your old van years ago...LOL! Yes, I eat and must have both for TG. : )

David

Oh geez, David, I'd forgotten all about the Great Green Bean Casserole Disaster. I never did get all the smell out of that van carpeting, whenever it got really warm I could smell the mushroom soup, LOL. Or maybe it was my imagination, but it took forever to clean that van...

Annie

Thanks for sharing Annie! Looks like you had tons of fun!
Was that your Salsa in the kitchen table pic?
The tooth fairy here is a special teddy bear with wings that flys away with the tooth in a pouch to give to a new baby leaving behind a coin dollar under a pillow to be found.

Hey Liz, it's good to see you!! Nope, that's not salsa. Believe it or not, I don't really like salsa and I eat maybe a pint of it a year, my kids are huge consumers but tend to see it as a snack, not even an appetizer.

So the toothfairy is into recycling? I knew I liked her! (grin)

Annie