Everyday Adventures: My first Thanksgiving as a married lady and cooking a turkey...

Yesterday I started preparing around 12 seeing we were planning on eating around 430. The hubby helped peal potatoes and then I cut them and suffered a minor injury, small cut on my thumb. Then I put the potatoes in cold water to sit. Then at 1, I preheated the oven and got the turkey ready to go in at 130. Every half hour we checked the turkey temperature and buttered and bastened the turkey, dont know if bastened is a word but oh well. It was ready in 2 hours, only a 10lb turkey. I then warmed up the rolls, I bought dinner rolls and had made biscuits as well as warmed up corn. I got my favorite, cranberry sauce, out of the fridge and started setting the table. Hubby carved the turkey and it came out moist and delicious!

Here is a pic of the golden turkey!

Then the boys, Hubby and his friend from college who recently got stationed a couple hours away, helped me clear the table and load the dishwasher. I finished up the rest of the dishes and picked up the kitchen. After a little digesting and way too much football for my liking, we settled down for dessert, I had bought an apple pie but noone was really interested in that. I had made my own tradition, chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and bought some vanilla ice cream to go with it. Everyone enjoyed the cake and ice cream and then the boys watched football and I skyped with my family and finished reading Uncharted Territori.

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I didn't do any black friday shopping and neither did my family in NY. My mom is still recuperating from her surgery so my sis and mom wrote out their lists and figured out where they want to get their gifts.