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Matt, you will enjoy this: my grandson is 11 yrs old and I bought him his first 20 gauge shotgun and my son and I took him to try it out and he was really attentive and put every shot on the target. This weekend he went on a deer hunt and the boys he was with shot one and he got to see it all up close. Then the boys father taught all 3 of the boys how to gut a deer. My grandson was so happy and loved every minute of it. It made me think of you and how much you love it. Praise the Lord!

Oh my, I’m with Matt! Gravy and cranberry sauce is a must for Thanksgiving dinner!!! And Granny is right about it’s not Thanksgiving without pumpkin pie. I always make my sons pecan pie too, they won’t eat anyones but mine..lol. We don’t have a lot of people at Thanksgiving dinner, just me and my two sons but I am thankful for them!❤️

I love all your videos! Please pray for my daughter she’s sick

The first round of holidays with an empty spot at the table are the most difficult. But also healing to remember the last holiday together and to memorialize any special things enjoyed by your folks at that holiday. Incorporate the things they loved or the things that you loved about them on the holiday into family lore and tradition.

TIPPER, PUT YOUR CRANBERRY SAUCE IN THE REFRIGERATOR AND IT WILL BE COLD WHEN YOU OPEN IT... HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOUR FAMILY, GOD BLESS YOU ALL 🙏🙏🙏

I lost my mother-in-law last week, too. She died the night I came home from a lumpectomy for breast cancer. It’s been a bad month but we are grateful for everything, too. We are blessed to have had her for 92 years! You should record that conversation around the pictures so you’ll remember all of them.

You don’t need glass, you can buy the thick clear vinyl that goes over your tablecloth to protect it, you can put the photos under it. It comes on a long roll at the hobby stores. I got mine at JoAnns & Michaels. Great thing about this vinyl… you can reuse and reuse it, when it’s finally worn out, use in greenhouse, etc Happy Thanksgiving! Been praying for Granny 🤍

I enjoy it when Matt makes you laugh, it's so sweet the way you laugh Tipper. Y'all are so fortunate !!! Thank you, as always! 💞🙌🏼

Glad Granny is doing well. My husbands sister found out maybe 2 months ago she had cancer and she passed last week. We just never know, like you said. Just be grateful every day and love the people God gave us!

I'm with Matt. Who doesn't like gravy!😊 I do like the fresh cranberry sauce though. I so enjoy these times when you and Matt sit and enjoy your popsicles and just talk.

🦋🦋🦋 I just love that you all can get together as a family! I really enjoy hearing y’all talk about it the way you do. I’m sure it brings hope to so many people!

I was told many years ago that garlic in your flower bed will help with the bugs.

Even encouragement from someone we've never met can be the straw it takes to get us to move toward the thing we've been putting off but know we should get moving toward. This one is for you Matt. You find a top notch Eye Specialist, and take the first appointment they have available. Do ya hear me? You are very enjoyable to watch and God knows how much your family needs you. Then there is that precious grandson soon to make his appearance to Grandpa. I think you may need some tests run on your eyes that are not routine. And if you do, you may possibly need time to heal. Y'all enjoy Thanksgiving safely, and to the fullest. It is my favorite time of year. Tipper, I continue to remember your mother in prayer.

My grandson is working at Honey Baked Ham and the employers get a choice of a ham or turkey. We all voted for ham. So its going to be ham and biscuits and good old canned cranberry slices on top plus all the goodies we have that make it Thanksgiving. You are the hardest working couple,.so you need to eat good. Thank god Granny is doing well. The picture idea is great. I hope it works out for you. I love my old pictures but it gives me a happy /sad feeling seeing all my babies and family I won't see no more till Heaven. I love visiting with you all. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. God bless us all.💗🙏

Thank you Matt and Tipper! So happy to know that Granny is tolerating her treatments, so well. Happy Thanksgiving to you all and your entourage!❤️🇨🇦🙏🦃

When we first moved to Western Colorado we had a favorite restaurant that had hundreds of photos of the area and local people and activities: hunting, camping, hiking, fishing, skiing, snowmobiling, and the mountains. All large tables were covered with these photos and a heavy glass on top! We just loved it. This restaurant put me on a love affair with green chilies and southwest cooking! Great memories!

I agree with Matt, jellied cranberry sauce! I'm the only one in my house who will eat it. Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family.

I'm with Matt in gravy,. Love it . Put some on the dressing. Yum. Prayers for Granny ❤

One of my favorite parts is where you both sit and eat popsicles and relax and talk.😊 Happy Thanksgiving to the whole family! From Michigan.

I miss the family holidays. Our family has shrunk to a small handful. Beautiful memories gets me through. Thank you for sharing- it made me chuckle. Have a blessed thanksgiving- prayers for grannie~

God is so good! I've prayed for your Mom faithfully and it brings such joy in hearing she took so well to the treatments. She will be so thankful it's over. God bless you and yours this holiday. And to all your subbies.... Happy Thanksgiving !!!

My wife is 74 and I’m 78, we are from West Virginia but we have lived in Florida for 10 years, we really enjoy watching your family on utube. I have probably watched about all your videos. It helps me when I get homesick for the mountains and having a garden. Your husband is a lot like me, I like to hunt and I love fishing we live on a chain of lakes her and we have a 21 foot pontoon boat. If your ever in Florida come and visit. I also love hunting knives.

You two are like bread and butter ❤ I hope to find love like that again (my butter passed 18 years ago) ❤

So thankful Granny is doing okay. She sure can sing. Bless her.

My daddy always made turkey,homemade chicken dressing,giblet gravy, Cranberry sauce,homemade mashed potatoes, potatoe salad,Slaw, deviled eggs,pumpkin, sweet potato,pecan pie....

Make a big list of what you need and check it off…that’s what I do or I will forget everything! But yes you have to have cranberry and gravy or it ain’t thanksgiving! Matt is one smart cookie! ❤

🙏🏻 for Granny! It's wonderful she has done so well! I'm with Matt on the gravy- I do like a little turkey gravy on my potatoes!

With all the talk of Matt’s eyesight changing, I am thinking he needs to ensure his blood pressure is under control. I know he’s at the age where his eyes might be changing anyway, but I know I had issues with my eyesight when my blood pressure was not under control. We care about you and look forward to watching you, and we thank you for your companionship! Be well!!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I think every day should be a day of thanks because most of us here in America have such an abundance and we're so blessed! 🙏

Am partial to gravy & cranberry sauce! The jellied cranberry in the can, refridgerated, open the can, it comes out & then cut it in 1/2 inch slices 😋 Happy to hear Granny is doing well & her treatments are ending🙏🏻 I hear Matt about the eyesight issue...the readers or "cheaters" as some call them, are inconvenient. Wishing y'all a wonderful Thanksgiving! 🍂🍁🍂🍗🌽🍠🥧

I pray for her every day, morning and night.

Matt had me in stitches with his comments. 🤣My best to all of you for a wonderful Thanksgiving together with extended family. Keeping prayers flowing for Granny too.

I started following your family's videos in earnest last holiday season and I'm very much looking forward to watching them this year. The holidays have a tendency to be stressful to me and your videos help me relax and enjoy the season. Praying for your new grand baby! I just had a little boy in August, so I know exactly what Katie is in for soon! 😂 Also praying for Granny! If any one feels it on their heart to pray for my sister in law, she was recently diagnosed with leukemia. God bless your family this Thanksgiving and Christmas! ❤

Listening into you two, its just like Family. Wifey and I did some gardening this morning. dirt was powder dry, so some wetta soil liquid mix with ground improver. I found some gladioli bulbs of my fav, near black flower, so be nice to see them in full bloom. Thanks for the update on Granny. God Bless all.

I remember when I was a kid my grandparents would sit out on the porch at night after supper here in North Mississippi. They lived in the country on a dirt road and always made a "gnat smoke" our in the yard. I'm 71 years old now and I still remember how that smoke smelled. I loved every minute of living in those times. Also I agree with Matt. Gravy is good anytime with anything. Happy Thanksgiving.

Hey Tipper. We’ve had four cousin reunions over the last four years and as all our parents and grandparents are gone to their reward, I got large pieces of poster board and taped pictures of all the aunts and uncles and grandparents etc. many old family photos and displayed them on the picnic tables at the pavilion we were at Oh my gosh EVERYONE just loved seeing them and I told them to take which ones they wanted. It made for a great heart warming day of sharing family stories and fond recollections. ❤

I am glad you were able to take care of your mother. I think care for the elderly is the only reason to have children. You know if the grocery stores sold canning foods, they would not have to import from other countries. Be blessed!

Always enjoy yours and Matt’s conversations with us. I hope you and your family have a blessed Thanksgiving and a special prayer for Granny to be feeling good this holiday season. 🍂🦃🧡

Can't wait to be apart of American Thanksgiving ❤ We have finished ours in Canada it was in October ❤....exciting to see your tradition and menu🇺🇸🦃🇺🇸🦃..I hear its a much bigger production than ours in Canada ❤😊

HAPPY THANKGIVING TO YOU ALL !! MAY GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND SPECIAL BLESSING FOR GRANNY.

Matt, you should try a turkey sandwich with horseradish and cranberry sauce! It's VERY good. 👍

My mother-in-law used to put a large white flat bedsheet on the table as a table cloth and provide a couple of sharpies, then everyone at the table could write a comment and the lil babes could outline there hands. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Lisa from Oklahoma.

This was such a nice pre-Thanksgiving Chat! Thanks for spending time with us and sharing so much of your days and history! Have a Blessed Thanksgiving, Everyone! 🦃❤

So happy to hear that granny's treatments are over! Granny's interview about crochet was what led me to your channel a few years ago. I immediately identified with her because I crochet also and she is just so sweet. I immediately subscribed to your channel after watching that video. Blessings to youvall!;

We will be having around 30 people for Thanksgiving. I am like Matt I have to have my canned cranberry and turkey gravy. I Also love cornbread dressing, chicken and dumplings, shuck beans, mashed potatoes, broccoli casserole, sweet potato casserole, and of course, turkey and ham, homemade yeast, rolls, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie. etc I hope everyone has a Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving.❤

I'm like you, Matt. I love the cranberry sauce in the can. And I also prefer gravy with my mashed potatoes!!

I just don't have much roomso it's only turkey & dressing & gravy fir me. I can pick later. Enjoy all that delicious sounding food. I love your family so much. You are such good people.

I'm with Matt on that gravy and cheap canned cranberry sauce! I could eat that stuff straight out of the can!😄 Happy Thanksgiving to all of you and all your viewers too!

Tell Matt i know the feeling. I can't see to read anything without a magnifying glass. I still ptaying for Granny.. God bless you all.

Don't forget the cranberry sauce! Coming to you from Cranberry Country USA, Carver Massachusetts 🙂 Happy Thanksgiving

Enjoyed sitting & listening to you both. I’m with Matt on the gravy & canned cranberry sauce, gotta have ‘‘em both. Glad to hear that granny is holding her own, we will continue to lift her up in prayer daily. I busted out laughing when Matt said I can’t see it, but I’m enjoying it. Hope y’all have a blessed Thanksgiving. 👍🏻🦃😇🦃🙏🏻🦃❤️🦃

I believe I'd have to do my husband in, if he plowed my gardens. There is no way I want the microbes and earth worms messed up in my soil. I know the old timers plowed all the time, but I have much more success with no tilling. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Prayers and love to you all.

Yes! I’m with Matt! I put that turkey gravy on my mashed potatoes, my dressing, and turkey!

This year I’ll be alone, for the holiday’s, but I don’t mind since I’m not feeling well. I’m cooking a small supper and then I’m going enjoy watching some favorite movies. We all have so much to be thankful for. I’m with Matt, I like gravy on my turkey, dressing and mashed potatoes. I used to make my dad’s homemade cranberry sauce, but now I buy canned too. No jellied though! My SIL makes a cold cranberry relish, it’s okay, not great, LOL. She’s not the best cook-but don’t tell her! 😅I hope everyone enjoys their Thanksgiving! I’m happy to hear Granny’s doing well. She’s been in my prayers too. She is a special lady. 🙏🏻God Bless y’all and don’t eat too much! 🦃🥧

This Thanksgiving is going to be really hard on my family. My daddy passed away September 29,2023 and my Uncle Jerry passed away Saturday night. So keep my family in your prayers. Prayers going up for you and your family ❤

There is no such thing as Thanksgiving dinner without turkey gravy and cranberry sauce. So good on the mashed potatoes and dressing. We have to have baked beans also.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Prayers & blessings to all especially Granny. May God bless you all!!

Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Prayers continue for Granny. My sweet Momma went to heaven November 7. What a celebration she is having in heaven.

Tipper, You just jerked me back to reality!!!! Our family has had a very hard month and I forgot this is Thanksgiving week!!!! Your blogs really helped me tonight too!! Thank you for all you do!♥️

You and Matt are to funny when you have your chats. That’s was so funny when he was talking about his eyesight. When my eyesight went bad it was like his good one day and I swear I was almost blind the next. You all have a Happy Thanksgiving and hope you don’t forget the cranberry sauce. lol

Oh my watching this I’m getting so hungry. We are going to our son’s house for Thanksgiving. I’ll be helping a lot. Can’t wait to be with family.

I always forget the rolls in the oven and when everybodys done eating then we remember the rolls...lol

You two are so good together; good with each other and good for each other. On Thanksgiving, I'll be giving thanks that Granny has gotten through her treatments so well and that they're over. May I suggest that when the family is there looking at photos and telling family stories, that you have a camera set up and video it, not for your channel, but to preserve it. It could be precious for the ones who are little ones today, when they are the elders, to be able to hear those voices again. How would love to hear my daddy's voice that I haven't heard for about 60 years! Granny and the stuffing reminded me of the first Christmas my husband & I were together, hosting Christmas dinner. He wanted to have prime rib roast, because that was his family's tradition, but my family always had ham or turkey (depending on how flush we were that year). Finally I said, okay, we could have beef that year and ham the next and just keep alternating, so neither family would lose their tradition. So we had roast beef and I explained to my family that next time we'd have our traditional meal. But my whole family said they wanted roast beef to be our new family tradition. The traitors! 😂😂

So glad that granny is doing well and has tolerated her treatment well. My sister had an awful time with chemo. Take care.

Wishing you a wonderfully blessed Thanksgiving. Prayers for Granny. May all of your wonderful memories of Miss Cindy be with you all. God bless your family you all are a blessing and comfort to those of us that are alone .

I can’t see it… but I’m enjoying it 😂😂 I had tears in my eyes, and then he said that and I laughed so hard… just the way he said it. Hope y’all have a great Monday!

We spent the weekend in Indy with our son and daughter in law and we couldn't believe how mild the weather was. We just had a sweater or light jacket on for the whole weekend and it is late November. Usually by this time we have seen snow and ice but this year is different. Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I hope you have a blessed week.

i can just imagine how good the gravy would be from that deer ham..or turkey gravy from the bird..holiday potatoes deserve gravy.

Commenting on the pictures, we got out boxes of old pictures and discussed them and wrote names on the back of them. It was so fun and interesting. We were sad when we got to the bottom of the boxes. It took a few years to get through them all.

I’m wishing you a happy thanksgiving 🦃 and still keeping granny in my prayers for an amazing healing. God bless you all.😊😊

Matt, I put meat off the turkey neck, a few spoons of cooked stuffing, poultry seasoning, some cooked gravy in a blender, blend, then add it back to the pot of gravy. This adds more flavor. We like our gravy and potatoes. 😉 You all have a nice Thanksgiving.

I’ve been with my husband since 1988-89 and to this day, he eats like a government mule. Always has and probably always will… so, you’re not alone. 🤷🏻‍♀️😉

👋💙🙏💙👋Miss Tipper, Have a great Thanksgiving Day and enjoy being with all the loved ones. Towards the end of this video, it brought tears to my eyes when you talked about the last night with your daddy. It was so beautiful the way you remembered it. I remember the last few hours and I’m so blessed to have been with my daddy too. It was hard losing him. He passed on in the early hours of the 4th of July 1997. I miss him so much. The fourth is a time to reflect for me. Momma died on the morning of my birthday March 2016. I know my parents are watching over all of us that are left, but the memories mean so much. Prayers for Granny and love to y’all. 👋🙏🍁🦃 🥧 🙏👋

I wish the weather would make up it's mind! I am so ready for winter! I usually make a pretty good gravy, but after tasting turkey gravy in a jar, I just use that and hide the jars--hahaha. Praying for you're firefighters to get that fire out. We were in a fog all day today, but got up to about 80. Well I am having Thanksgiving this year. And I have Dr appointments Monday and Tuesday, so looks like cornbread on tuesday along with deserts and most everything else Wednesday. I have to make my mom's cranberry fluff, along with the jelly stuff out of the can. I'm making different green beans this year. you take 4 or 5 long beans with bacon wrapped around them, then I make a sauce to baste it in. We always seemed to leave out the canned cranberry sauce too. I would love the coconut cake for sure! So I have to make a ham too because my sister doesn't like turkey that much. Well she brings the broccoli rice casserole she likes and I make mom's dressing! Deep fried turkey is so good. Dad use to do that. We are all surely blessed. One year dad sat down and had a telescoping fork and acting like he was going for everyone's pie. It was so funny!! Omgoodness I forgot the sweet potatoes too. I'm stressing now!! Praying for Granny always! I am so glad the treatments will be over soon. My friend that has it , the chemo shrunk the tumor enough to have surgery and they got it all!! To God give the glory! Well have a very blessed Thanksgiving, and I could use some prayers to help the swelling in my leg go down. It's part of the CRPS...ugh! Matt needs glasses like Bill needs a hearing aid--huh? huh? hahaha but he won't admit it! lol

"Ain't no need in not having gravy". That should be a bumper sticker 😂

I’m so thankful for your precious family! Also thankful for Granny’s treatments coming to an end. Praying y’all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your family and a sweet time of sharing memories of those that have passed. And celebrate as believers, knowing we will see them again. God bless y’all! 😀❤️

Hey Tipper & Matt, Thanks for the updates and glad Granny is doing well. Hopefully Matt sees the Eye Doctor soon. Love to you all. Have a wonderful Holiday.

Don’t feel bad Tipper I never make gravy either but my husband loves turkey gravy with his mashed taters. I pray your precious mama is able to enjoy Thanksgiving 🙏🙏. I love to watch yall I feel like I’m visiting with family. Matt my husband always gets accused of having a beer belly and he always “nope” I’m a teetotaler but I sure do like to eat lol. Thanks for sharing your lives with all of us. Holidays are hard when loved ones pass on 🙏

Creamed potatoes and homemade gravy is a meal to me especially with minute steak Yum and Yum! 😋 Looks like a warmer winter this year. Thanks for the video ❤

My Family always made Giblet Gravy for Thanksgiving 🤢 Back in the early 70’s My Grandmother would always make a sweet potato pie just for me and I didn’t share 😄Tipper you’re so right about enjoying every minute. I lost my Mother 2 years ago on Nov. 21st and then lost my father in Jan. this year and then my son in-law in August.

Thank you so much for the conversation this evening! Prayers for Granny. Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

I'm so glad that Granny continues to do well! I will keep praying for her and for the healing of her burns.

It's good to hear Granny is doing well. Like pumpkin pie it's not Thanksgiving with out that canned cranberry sauce at our house. Gotta have the gravy and cornbread dressing!! Have a blessed Thanksgiving Pressley family and everyone that is a part of this wonderful community of fans.

My mom used to buy the clear vinyl Walmart sells by the yard in the fabric dept to use as a cover to protect her "fancy" tablecloth. If you did that, you could put the pictures under it & they would stay protected plus easy to store for the next holiday. LUUUV the picture idea by the way!

Proud to hear your mother is doing great thru her treatments..and you are so right about praying..it works..

Over 50 years ago I made pumpkin pie for family Thanksgiving . . . spiked with a little rum. Great grandmother, who never had liquor in her life, asked for a second piece. This year I'm making mincemeat with some whole cranberry sauce and maybe a little brandy. Sadly she's not here to indulge.

Y’all got a lot done around the garden today. Good conversation. Thankful for the good report on Granny and prayers will continue for her and all your family.

For your photos, find a high end xerox copier that does good prints on good archival paper. You can get a lot of pics on the 11x17 paper. You can cut them up and send them home with family after your done and not loose the originals. Keep your originals safe and secure because if your family is like most, they will all be missing or atleast those you would of liked to hold onto.

LOL!!! Gravy is my favorite beverage! And Matt might change his mind about cranberry sauce if he could taste my cranberry jalapeno jelly! Happy Thanksgiving to the whole Billy goat Bluff Clan!

Funnily enough, I also grew up with the canned cranberry sauce and for that reason I really have a taste for it. I've had homemade cranberry sauce and it just wasn't the same. I buy 2 cans of the "good stuff" every year: one for Thanksgiving and one for Christmas. I moved to Indiana some years ago and haven't been able to be with family for the holidays since then. So, since it's just me, I'll probably have Thanksgiving dinner this weekend instead of today. It'll be different some day, but I'm still thankful for all that I have. Blessings to you, Tipper!

Tipper , have you ever made cranberry Relish? One bag FRESH cranberries, 1 seedless orange, one cup sugar. Grind orange( not peeled) and berries jnto a Relish add sugar. Refrigerate overnight . It is so good with Turkey. I agree with Matt , I love to eat. And I like everything. That's why I am 50+lbs overweight 😢😢😢. I am so grateful Grannie is doing so well. As usual, thank you for sharing your life with us. ❤❤❤❤

Absolutely best hopes for granny's recovery/happy thanks giving /between my stomach and it being just me and the cat I dont bother with it/so happy for you having a warm hearted family/I cant even imagine it when mine is arctic hearted / bitter cold/at least I have a toasty warm heart and a happy cat!lol

Hey guy's, Matt, maybe your eye doctor needs his eyes checked! Prayers and God bless y'all. Happy Thanksgiving. My folks are gone now, my mother just last year, and their wedding anniversary is the 24th. But God is good, I'm really thankful and fortunate, and your family has only made my life that much better.

Enjoyed the visit and keeping Granny and everyone in my prayers...🦃🦃🦃

Got to have turkey gravy with mashed potatoes, stuffing, and right on the turkey. Nothing better!

We always used to say if our boss washed her car It Would Rain so wash your car and then water all your plants and then for sure it will rain I wish that always worked but it don't I hope you get rain there's nothing like a good rain it's it's so much better than watering I don't know why because God is the one that's watering it Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family my prayers are with you guys especially saying it's your first Thanksgiving without Miss Cindy my sister Cindy passed away on September 22 is definitely very empty what's the holidays coming up without her God bless you guys

I’m fixing Turkey, Mom’s dressing, green beans, cherry cranberry salad, cole slaw, homemade rolls, sweet potato pies, and a cake that I made up but doesn’t have a name yet😊, hot coffee/tea …..I sound like granpa jones🤣

Hi Matt & Tipper, I just love watching you chat with each other. All of our Family has passed. It seemed once my Mom-Mom( my G’ma) passed then my Uncle & my Mom both in there middle 50’s. We had Thanksgiving at My Mom’s whilst I was growing up & she never did like cooking nor did she ever bake. I always helped her even at a very young age .Now it’s just a small dinner during the Holidays since my younger daughter & son both live with us. It’s easier times are hard to have us living together. I’m sure glad we have the food when we do get the fence to be together. I’m sure glad Granny has tolerated her treatments & that she will soon be done. We have kept her & everyone there as well as e reading the prayer needs that are posted. Could I please still have prayer’s for my Family continued. I’d surely appreciate it since my hubby has been i’ll & my daughter starts back her IV treatment for her illness that it gp helps her & DOESN’T make her sick like the last time. God Bless & HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🍁🦃 ~ Hugs from NJ ~ Anita 🙏🏽🍁🧶🫶🏽

If you end up with missed or leftover cranberry sauce, try mixing some of it with vanilla ice cream. I did that one year and really liked the mild tartness of the cranberry mingled with the sweetness of the ice cream.