picTORIal: Our Coastal Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving we had the opportunity to keep our aprons in the pantry and pots on the shelf. We headed to Dana Point near Laguna Beach and spent a long holiday weekend being #grateful at The St. Regis Monarch Beach. We packed up all 5 kids (Jack, Liam, Stella, Hattie & Finn) and headed to the resort on Thanksgiving morning. We arrived to crisp sunny weather and the most amazing view from our hotel room...
Jack & Hattie admiring the view
Miss Stella on the balcony.
Liam's excited for Thanksgiving!
Finn's first Thanksgiving!
The kids took a bath before we all dressed for Thanksgiving dinner...
Hattie had a little room service snack before dinner
Liam & Stella strike a pose
And more posing...
And, here's my babes all dressed for dinner...
Here's Finn in his 1st Thanksgiving dinner outfit. He suddenly looks like such a big man!
The kids head down the hall to dinner with a now fully mobile Hattie in tow
Dad and Hattie take in the buffet sites
Stella makes cutlery artwork
Such a California Thanksgiving dinner!
Dean took full advantage that the TG buffet had everything from breakfast to dinner!
Dive in!
Smooches for the mama...
All vintage of course...
The boys!
Stella's dessert choices
Stella after dessert...
Everyone watching a movie all cozy in the room after dinner
We hit the pool the next day...
And lunched poolside
After lunch we headed to the Kid’s Club where the kids got crafty and decorated gingerbread houses
Liam, hard at work
Miss Stella, aka the crafting goddess
We ended our amazing stay by getting the opportunity to attend the resort's annual Christmas tree lighting
In fact here's the switch and Liam & Stella actually got to flip it and light the tree up. It was amazing!
Liam & Stella found a new holiday friend
And, here's our whole family in front of the magnificent tree
Thanks St. Regis Monarch Beach for an amazing Coastal Thanksgiving! So grateful for my family and the time we got to all spend together!
What did you and your family do for Thanksgiving this year? Tell me all about it in the comments below.
Love,
T
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This is my first time seeing the Thanksgiving pictures. Great job capturing the spirit of the holiday! I had a quiet Thanksgiving with family. No man to cook for me, but I take my Blessings whereever I find them. Thanks for sharing the family photos! -
Hey Tori,
Adore your style. I would love to see some pics of the interior of your home. What I have seen looks so cozy and welcoming! -
Love the photographs! I really like the way your site is designed..look forward to checking it out.
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I just love your beautiful family! You are an amazing mother and the children are so lucky to have Dean and you as parents.My family came to my house in Rhode island and my husband cooked because I had just gotten home from the hospital after surgery where I was in for 5 days.
Your thanksgiving looked special. When are you going to start tori and dean show on oxygen? I gphavent seen it on for awhile? -
I just love your beautiful family! You are an amazing mother and the children are so lucky to have Dean and you as parents.My family came to my house in Rhode island and my husband cooked because I had just gotten home from the hospital after surgery where I was in for 5 days.
Your thanksgiving looked special. When are you going to start tori and dean show on oxygen? I gphavent seen it on for awhile? -
Tori, your thanksgiving looks so cozy and perfect:) I'm glad that you guys went to a resort and pampered yourselves. Sometimes it's nice not having all the dishes and clean up that comes with holidays. Kids are all smiles (as usual :) and look relaxed and that they had a nice time too. We had a quiet thanksgiving here, looking forward to Christmas!! -
Hi Tori. Loved seeing all the pictures. Your family is gorgeous! We spent our first Thanksgiving in our new home, having just recently moved from NJ to Texas. What was really special was that my whole family flew down from NJ to be with us here and that my husband's family, that lives here, all came together in our new home. It was so special to have everyone. A great memory.
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Hi Loved seeing the pictures! We spent our first Turkeyday in AZ at one of the local casino buffets. All the goodies with no post dinner clean up ;->
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Hi Tori and Family, you have a beautiful family. The pictures of your trip are amazing and the St. Regis looks so inviting. This Thaanksgiving me, my husband,and our 3 children headed down to Orlando, Fl where we rented a timeshare with some of my husbands family. There were 13 of us (5 adults and 8 children). We had a magical time in Disney watching the Osbourne lights and the castle lit up for Christmas. This Thanksgiving was special as it was our childrens first trip to Disney!
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Thanks for sharing the pictures! Just beautiful! Looks like you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Me, the hubby and our two little ones head up to Tennessee where we rent out a house on a lake with my husband family from Ohio. There are 12 adults and 9 children...the house actually fits us all! We play games, get crafty and eat alot! But a really fun family tradition! -
Hi Tori & Dean, Beautiful family and May god keep blessing you both. You both INSPIRE me to believe in things I did not know were possible. Thank you so much for share these amazing pictures! :) <3 -
Hi Tori and family, Thanks for sharing such beautiful pics, glad to hear your family's Thanksgiving was festive and fun. My Thanksgiving was okay, it was nice to share with my teenager and boyfriend. Have a blessed week. -
God blessed you all on the lovely day. Great looking time you guys had on Thanksgiving. The highlight of my day...devouring everything on my plate (Mom used to say, "People are starving somewhere, so eat all your food.")and relaxing in front of the TV and cable networks. I like my Thanksgiving Day to be quiet and peaceful after I say my traditional Thanksgiving prayers thanking God for everything big and small that I've been blessed with in the past year...even if the year wasn't the best year of all. -
Ohh I SO wish I lived in California sometimes. Where else can you have turkey and sushi for Thanksgiving dinner, then lounge by the pool afterward? Anyway love the pics! I had a very nice holiday. My husband and I spent it at my sister-in-law's. She had about 15 people there, all aunts, uncles and cousins. It was so nice to get to know my new in-laws more. :) The food was great, my new aunt made an amazing cream cheese/marinara dip with shrimp that is apparently a family recipe. I made these adorable (if I do say so myself) turkey sugar cookies, I found the idea on pinterest. I will post a pic of them on my profile. -
I hosted a run at my house for 43 people in the morning and then dinner for 26!!!
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Beautiful family holiday!! My husband does competition BBQ and we were just there in Dana Point (right next door from the Regis at the park actually) in September. We walked over the St. Regis and got some wine and enjoyed their beautiful grounds. There was a wedding going on and it was simply stunning the views from there!! I had never even heard of Dana Point before this (we live in AZ) but we will be sure to be back. Would love to stay there!! Looks like you guys had an amazing time!! We cooked a huge dinner and had 16 people at our house which is our annual tradition. Happy Thanksgiving to you guys!! (few days late ;-) -
Hi tori, what my family did this year was to spend a nice quiet relaxing dinner together. After 32 years in an abusive relationship i decided to get out. So this year was the first peaceful holiday in a long time. Plus, my daughter's mother in law has cancer and had just gone through chemo the day before Thanksgiving and couldn't travel to be with family, so I didn't want to see her alone, so I brought her a big plate of food and hoped she enjoyed it. glad to see you and yours had a great time and hope to see you guys on tv again. we really enjoy your family and the show. Happy Holidays tori, Maureen
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Thanks for sharing your TG pictorial, love watching your family grow...& Fin, so big already! oh my....but I know all too well how fast baby time flies, watching my own grandkids on that speeding train! We celebrated TG with a few family members: Four sisters, their hubbies and offspring......Rob, Dawn, Cory, Jim, Andy, Sam, Tracy, Phil, Paxton, Sienna, Nick, Kristine, Gay, Don, Donny, Dustin, Kim, Darci, John, Dawn, Gio, Danny, Angel, Debbie, Jim, Marilyn, Terry, Michelle, Clint, Rebecca, Lexi, Bella, Holly, Vince & Russ. Yep, thats 35! + Two turkeys, a ham and a bounty of love! Woo Hoo!
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It's so nice to see you all together. You are a beautiful family. I hope you will be blessed with many many happy days like these ones. -
You have a beautiful family! What a great idea to spend Thanksgiving at the beach and what a view! I love the picture of the kids in the floor watching a movie. I always liked eating and getting my kids to our hotel room and just feeling safe and cozy!
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I had an awesome Thanksgiving! It was the first time in 23 years that I had Thanksgiving with both my parents & sister. My parents we're divorced during that time so I always had Thanksgiving twice a year. It wasn't bad or anything plus I never did think we be a family again. We'll on November 7 of this year, they got married again! Both never did remarry but had to grow. They are learning from their mistakes & my dad is communicating more this time around then before.My husband said since they remarried, it doesn't count as a second marriage.LOL!Your family is getting so big and cute!
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Love your family, really wish the show was back on so sick of all the crap on tv your show was cute andmy 3 year old liked to watched it too! please come back!!!
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Tori, what a super family.....sounds like the perfect Thanksgiving, having ALL your children there with you and Dean.... The setting was special and the kids took full advantage of what the surroundings had to offer.... And then for you to have the day off to just enjoy your family, what a blessing that truly must have been after the rough few months you had just gone through...... So happy for all of you... Thanks for sharing your lovely pictures of them all...... They are growing up so fast! Can't wait to see what kind of fashionista Miss Stella becomes! LOL she's got such a rocket start!!! Enjoy what is left of this year and the Christmas holiday..... I hope 2013 brings you all together and happy many times over...........
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