Thanksgiving Recap

Well I misplaced my camera on Monday but I finally found it today so now I can blog about Thanksgiving! I wish I could blame it on Eli, but I just totally forgot where I put it.

So...our Thanksgiving was a success! Jeremy's parents were here for a week and we had a great time visiting with them. They got here at 2am Saturday morning. Yikes! They were trying to beat the storm that arrived Saturday afternoon, and it's a good thing they did! We got about a foot that night. I had my concert in Salt Lake and it went really well even though our audience was quite small because of the storm.

Anyway, so we had a nice time that week. Jeremy's mom went to the Family History Library in Salt Lake a few times and his dad spent a lot of time playing with Eli, which was great! I felt like I went to the store 17 times those few days leading up to Thanksgiving, but I think it was only actually 2 or 3.

Wednesday I spent all day baking pies and doing other preparations for the feast. Jeremy's mom was awesome and did all the dishes that day as I was going. I told Jeremy it was like heaven! I got to cook all day long and I didn't have to clean up at all! :)

Thursday was a great day and it was so nice having Jeremy off work for the 4-day weekend. I put Jeremy's mom in charge of hors d'oeuvres. Their family always does fun hors d'oeuvres on Thanksgiving and I thought that was definitely a tradition we should keep up! :) So she put together some beautiful (and sooo delicious) plates of cheese, fruits, roasted garlic, stuffed mushrooms, crackers, sliced baguette, spinach artichoke dip, etc. It was great to take a little break from the cooking/prepping and eat such delicious food!

(We also had a veggie tray not pictured)

Eli liked it too!

A few hours later, we were in full-blown prep mode as we got everything ready to serve. To my surprise (and relief), we were right on schedule and were ready to eat about 3:15. We had the missionaries over and we had a great time! The food was delicious. As always, I felt like there were a few things that could have been better, but overall it was great. The turkey was so moist and delicious (if you don't brine your turkey, you really should) and we had tons of leftovers which made for a very easy weekend! (Note to self: I probably didn't need a 20 lb. turkey for 7 people - whatever).

Above - George taking the pic; Below - me taking the pic :)
Jeremy's plate. He wanted to take a picture.

After recovering for a few hours we dug into the pies and then played some games later that night. Friday, Jeremy's parents were out and about pretty much all day, so we just had a low key morning, an afternoon nap, and then we went to get our Christmas tree! We didn't end up decorating it until Saturday afternoon, but it was fun to go get it. We also tried to get Eli to enjoy playing in the snow, but as you can see, that didn't really work out:

But he sure is cute! Jeremy's parents left Saturday and then we got to spend that night writing our talks for Sacrament meeting the next day (I dread speaking in church - so glad that's over!)

So that was our week. More to come later - I've got lots of pictures from our 3rd storm of that week that hit Sunday morning (luckily Jeremy's parents got out before!) We got another foot! Crazy.