Our first Thanksgiving together…it was absolutely perfect!! We started off going over to my parents’ house for lunch. My sister was having Thanksgiving lunch with her in-laws, so it was just my parents and my four brothers and my oldest niece for lunch. My brother Robert was in town for the week, and it was good getting to visit with him!
Lunch was really good, my parents made a really yummy meal. Andrew and I planned on eating just a small, light meal since we were doing our own meal that evening, but everything was so good that we ate a normal, hearty Thanksgiving feast, hahaha!
We didn’t get too much time to visit after lunch because we had to get home to throw our 15-pound turkey in the oven. We didn’t end up eating until about 10:00 that night (yikes!), but everything was so good. It came out wonderful!
We had turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, mac-and-cheese, corn casserole, sweet potato casserole, fruit salad (with everything I love in it!), stuffing…oh my gosh, it was all so good! My mom sent us home with the stuffing and sweet potato casserole, but she also made us a pumpkin pie and a pecan pie and some homemade fudge. It was so, so, so, SO wonderful of her to do extra cooking for us! We have one oven and it would’ve been kinda crazy trying to cook too many things. We’d made the mac-and-cheese and mashed potatoes before Thanksgiving, so the only thing we had to cook along with the turkey was the corn casserole.
We have been very careful not to give Dewey people-food. He got horrible diarrhea the one time we gave him a little bit of lunchmeat, so we haven’t tried anything else. I figured it was a holiday, though, and he could have a tiny piece of turkey to celebrate. After all, he could SMELL IT and was trying to be sneaky to get to the trash can so he could snag the carcass bits Andrew was putting into it! Too funny!
But he loved turkey, he grabbed my hand and yanked it lower so he could grab the turkey, it threw my center off when I was trying to take a picture, haha.
Over the next couple of days, as we ate all of the yummy leftovers, we would give him more bits of turkey, and he absolutely loved it. And no tummy issues, so that was a good thing!
After dinner, Andrew and I drove out to the Garden Ridge in Lewisville (so much better than any other I’ve been to, just in case anyone needs to shop there anytime soon!) to see if we could find a good sale on extra things for our centerpieces. We ended up buying a seven and a half foot pre-lit Christmas tree, extra lights, and our first stockings! We decided that would be our Christmas present to ourselves this year: getting our first tree set up and beautiful. We decided to have my dad come over and help us put more lights on. It was pretty with the 750 white lights, but the addition of as many multi-colored lights just made the tree really beautiful. My mom gave me some of my old ornaments, we bought some new ones, we got a tree topper, and…TA-DA!!
I felt bad, because Andrew didn’t have any ornaments to add to the tree, so I surprised him by ordering two Indianapolis Colts ornaments, which he loved!
We are super excited about getting to spend our first Christmas together. We are planning on travelling to Kansas to spend time with friends on Christmas Day.
We didn’t get a chance to send out Christmas cards this year, couldn’t find a time when someone was over to take a picture of us looking nice (because Dewey has to be in the picture with us, haha), so a heartfelt blog post will have to suffice:
We hope you all have a very Merry Christmas!!!!
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