All the turkey details

Now that all the hard work is over, and the food is mostly gone, I finally have a minute to sit down and post a Thanksgiving update. Is all your food gone too? Is it just me, or does it seem like an awful lot of work to go through just for a nice dinner that gets eaten within 30 minutes? Then the continual snacking and pie eating over the next 2 days takes its ugly toll on our waist lines, which continues over the next month with an abundance of Christmas candies. But what a better way to show our thanks...at least our thanks for good food, right?

Enough about that Heather, get to the details!

So I was complaining to Ryan recently about how Im never in any of the pictures we take since Im usually the one behind the camera. I mean, I want our kids to remember me too! So he made an obvious effort over the last couple of days to stick me in front of the camera. Why, oh why did I mention it!? My poor husband cant win. Oh yeah, now I remember why Im the one behind the camera-I usually dont like pictures of me. But here they are anyway, pictures lacking Ryan, and displaying too much of me. Did I mention, the camera adds 10 pounds, or 20 or 30?

I got the smallest turkey I could find at 10.11 pounds. The good thing about that is that it only took about 3 hours to cook, especially since I didnt put stuffing in it (you know, because its bad for you to eat it...or if you didnt, than now you do!) Instead, I just stuffed a lemon up its...you know what, and covered it with butter and spices. Madi was excited all day to help out, and putting an apron on made her even more gung ho, so here she is posing with a lemon.

The kids wanted to try this chocolate chex caramel crunch stuff, so while the turkey was cooking, we added that to our list of preparatory foods. Yum, caramel!

Finally the cooking was done and it was time for devouring! Im not posting a picture of the turkey because I dont want there to be a "who has the best looking turkey?" contest, but you can catch a glimpse of it on the table. It turned out pretty good, although if you really know me, you know I am kinda a meat-a-phobe and tend to overcook fleshy things really well, so we dont catch its various diseases. Well, dont worry, I didnt overcook it...but therefore I was worried the whole time that it wasnt cooked enough, and ate it sparingly in fear of whatever the undercooked turkey had in store for us. No one ended up getting sick, so I guess it was cooked enough. Bon Appetite!

After dinner, we headed over to a friends house for dessert and games. It was good to wind down and have some laughs. We dont get to do that enough. I actually prefer having dinner as a family, and then getting together with friends afterward. It makes for less stress, and a good balance of things. I guess thats about it. I could make a list of all our thankful things, but that would take too long, so I will just say...Im thankful for all of you who still follow our blog and put up with my ramblings, and post a comment even though you dont have to. It makes us feel so loved! Hope you had a happy thanksgiving too!