Giving Thanks

We have so much to be thankful for this holiday season. Wonderful family, friends, an amazing husband and a happy baby girl.

Margaret and I were hard at work these last few days getting the house ready for Thanksgiving. She was such a trooper and behaved most of the time. If only she had taken more than a 30 minute nap!!

At least it was a long enough nap to get the centerpiece done. I am pretty proud of myself. Just wish it would stay like this forever!

I was a lil distracted while setting the table

which will explain why I set it wrong :) I realized it when we sat down to eat but no one said a word. It drove me crazy. Kept thinking to myself did I really just do this. Oh well!

May be next time instead of working on the centerpiece during her nap, I should set the table.

After getting the little one to bed, it was time to prepare the food! JB injecting the turkey with some HOT marinade. Next time I will not use the hot sauce it called for. Way too hot for me!!!

The roasted turkey soaking in the brine.

Thanksgiving morning, the Alexanders came over for breakfast. It was so much fun watching the cousins together.

Here goes nothing. . . This was not only our first Thanksgiving but first time ever cooking a Turkey. Definitely did not take as long as we anticipated but it was wonderful!

Daddy taking the fried turkey out. By the looks of it, we just knew it was going to explode like Lampoons turkey :)

Tada! The finished product!

We had soooooo much food to eat! Two turkeys, rice, gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, stuffing, green beans and biscuits!

Not to mention the fabulous dessert. Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie, Pumpkin Rum Cake and a yummy dessert Jenna dropped off. Thanks again Jenna!

It was so good to have MomB at our house for Thanksgiving and am glad she made the long trek into town. We enjoyed getting to spend time with her.

(Ok so the pictures downloaded in the wrong order)

Suppose to be . . . peakaboo (below pic) . . . There she is (above pic) :)

This pretty much sums up how we were by the end of the day . . . EXHAUSTED!

We couldn't have asked for a better day . . . (well if my family was here it would have been even better! Sure did miss you guys!!!) Thank you Lord for such a wonderful day and blessing us with such an amazing family! We love you all!!!