My Dream Thanksgiving would be outdoors!

I would love to have Thanksgiving outside with a beautiful table set up as the one pictured below. Cozy blankets, warm cider and all the Turkey Day Fixings!  Unfortunately we live in Minnesota and that is never going to happen. So I am going to have to bring the outdoors inside again this year. Pumpkins from the garden, herbs I have saved, some dried and some still hanging on from the mild weather we have been having and acorns and branches of course!

We are ready to start celebrating the start of the holiday season with our traditional favorites, bread stuffing with sausage, sage and chestnuts.  The famous green bean casserole, homegrown squash, cranberries, a huge bowl of potatoes with gravy and of course the Turkey! 


What are some of your families traditions you celebrate on Thanksgiving? Specific foods, putting up the tree for Christmas, serving others, or getting ready for the dreaded Black Friday and pouring over the ads and setting up your attack plan?

Leave a list in the comment section!