Thankful

Thanksgiving this year was so much fun! It was also a great opportunity for me to reflect on how blessed I have been, especially this last year. I really am so lucky. Out of the hundreds of things I have to be thankful for, I think I am most thankful for the Gospel and my family. I have the best husband in the world and I'm so glad that I get to be with him forever. We both come from great families too, and we were lucky enough to get to spend Thanksgiving with Michael's sister and her family. They drove down here from Detriot (in horrible traffic!) and spent the weekend with us.

I am not the best cook in the world. I am learning, but cooking Thanksgiving dinner was so intimidating to me. Luckily, Michael decided to be the confident one and offered to be in charge of the turkey. When he asked if he could cook it in maple syrup (ew! and heck no!) I wondered what in the world I was thinking for letting him be in charge of the main dish, but other than the syrup thing, he did a fabulous job! Here's the proof:

Michael's sister and brother-in-law helped guide him through the preparation.....

.... and it ended up great! :-)

As embarrassing as this is to admit, I think I probably did the least amount of cooking out of everyone! Yikes. Even the girls made some delicious dishes! I justify it by saying that it's because everyone was just so helpful that there ended up not being a whole lot left for me to do. :-) Next year, I am conquering that turkey on my own!

Thanks to our tiny table with six people crowded around it, we had to use our coffee table as the food table. Other than having to kneel down to get our food, it worked fine. :-)

We spent the rest of the weekend showing them the sights of Nashville, shopping, seeing the new Harry Potter movie, and hanging out.

Michael and Leah

We tried to make it look like we were holding up the pillars...

I think I moved, which is why it's blurry. Oops.

Downtown

The girls also helped me decorate our little Christmas tree. So much fun! One day, we will have a tree that is not oddly skinny and crooked. :-) Here it is all decorated and pretty:


Thanks Cory, Karen, Natalie, and Leah for coming to see us! It was great to have visitors!