We alternate our Thanksgivings each year between our families in Texas and Oregon.  This year was an Oregon year!  (Read here for our last visit.)  My in-laws live in beautiful Bend, OR – which is such a nice town.  Check out the gorgeous mountain view from our hotel room!  We stay at the Oxford hotel when we visit, and I definitely recommend it.

We hadn’t seen most of the family in 2 years, and 3 years for sister Kailey!  So it was really nice to be all together again.

We had quite the spread, as usual.  We were so excited to see each other that we spent all of Wednesday talking and didn’t get any prep work done!  So we didn’t end up eating Thanksgiving dinner until actual dinner time, which was fine by us!

Here’s Mom carving up that beautiful turkey!  They made sure to get one that was humanely raised.

I’d like to give a special shout-out to this gorgeous salad made by my Chef sister-in-law.  It was in keeping with her gluten- and dairy-free lifestyle and it was AWESOME.  It had two kinds of raw kale (massaged to remove bitterness), roasted beets, fennel, toasted walnuts, and pomegranate seeds.  I need to get the recipe from her for the yummy cashew dressing.

What was your favorite dish this year?  Leave a link or recipe in the comments!