A work in progress: Thanksgiving Recap... Round 2...

So this past weekend we headed out to West Texas to give thanks with my family. I was sad that I missed the big snow on Thanksgiving day. Yes you heard me right, a HUGE snow in West Texas on Thanksgiving! When I say huge snow, that means enough snow to build snowmen :-) We take what we can get around here, and we are lucky if it even snows once a year. So, this year, my sister and I took on the task of preparing the meal... all by ourselves... for the whole family... which neither one had done before. I've cooked one turkey in my life, and when I say I, I mean Craig has cooked a turkey and I helped... but mostly watched. Kim has never cooked a turkey, but she got a recipe from Kidd Kraddick so what else do you really need? I was slightly nervous because you cook the turkey in a brown paper grocery bag, but if Kidd Kraddick says it's good, then who are we to argue! His words are as good as gold in our book :-) So here is what we prepared:

The Menu:
Spiral Sliced Ham
Brown Bag Turkey
Stuffing
Turkey Gravy
Cheesy Mashed Potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Cream Cheese Corn
Deviled Eggs (Courtesy of Mom)
English Pea Salad (Again courtesy of Mom, basically because she is the only one who eats it))
Yeast Rolls
Fruit with Raspberry & White Chocolate Cream Cheese Dip (Again Mom)
Apple Crisp (all Shane's hard work)
Bread Pudding (all Shane again)

Against all odds, and with the help of Shane & Craig...
AND IT ALL TURNED OUT DELICIOUS!!!

The Turkey was soooooo tender and juicy. We were very proud of ourselves (we did a little victory dance after everyone left) Mission Accomplished :-)

On to the pictures...

The bird, I wish I would have gotten a pic with it in the bag :-(

Kim: The domestic diva

A few of the sides:

Craig & Ethan kicking it old school on the ORIGINAL Nintendo system

Of course my sister had the house already decorated for Christmas. Yes, outside lights and trees in every room.

And just a random pic of their piano. Some things just make for nice photography. I would like to say we all gathered around the piano and sang songs, but I'm pretty sure that has never happened in this family. Does anyone do that? I think it sounds great...