Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Tom and I had our very own Thanksgiving for the second year in a row. Since we can't afford to fly home for both Thanksgiving AND Christmas, we stayed here in Birmingham and relaxed and cooked our own little Thanksgiving feast! I got a free turkey (13 pounds!) from my second job so we cooked that up and added some sides and Voila! our very own yummy Thanksgiving Dinner!

Here is what our fabulous Thanksgiving Day consisted of:

Sleeping in (only until 9:00, but at least we didn't have to get up for work!)

Cooking breakfast (eggs w/ cheese.......yum!)
Watching football

Turkey prep! Here is the recipe I used, with some adaptations. (It's the same way I cooked it last year and it turned out great!)

Took the dog for a walk! (No, not our dog, unfortunately. We are dog sitting for a friend until Sunday).

More food prep.

More football.
Turkey Time!! Our full menu consisted of:

Roasted Turkey with Herbs

Mashed Potatoes with Turkey gravy

Turkey Stuffing

Broccoli & Cauliflower

Scalloped Oyster Casserole

Oreo Cheesecake for Dessert

(And wine, of course ;)

After dinner consisted of sitting around STUFFED and looking through flyers for Black Friday sales (even though I'm resisting majorly this year and only buying stuff we need.....i.e. new microwave since ours intermittently has sparks and flames coming from inside it when we use it lately!)

Here are a few pics of our day :)

I'm back loyal blog readers!

Let's not even talk about how long it's been since I last blogged!

Here are all of the things I have thought about blogging about but couldn't drag myself to the computer to do so:

1) I met Thumbelina. She is the world's smallest horse and I've become kind of obsessed with her ever since I saw her in OK magazine (or some other trashy gossip magazine) when we were traveling in August. She came to Children's Hospital and was in a tiny gate in the lobby. She's real cute, but just kinda stood there. The poor thing gets paraded around the whole country like some kind of sideshow. Here she is!

2) For Halloween we dressed up as pirates! We had a couple people over and then went to a friend's for a Halloween Party. It was fun!

3) We recently went home for the PSU vs. Temple game. It was a fun but whirlwind trip! We arrived Friday evening and flew out Sunday afternoon. It was good to see everyone and spend some time in Philly though!

4) Today we went to Oak Mountain State Park to go hiking. The weather was perfect and the leaves were beautiful. (And oh yeah, Tom got his hair cut! I did too but it's pulled back so you can't tell).