THANKSGIVING

Thanksgiving was so much fun this year! I have been wanting to go to the Macy's Day Parade and so we decided to take advantage of living in New York and GO! We didn't have to wake up crazy early as everyone said and we still had a decent standing spot! Spencer helped me cook a few Thanksgiving dishes the night before so we wouldn't have to rush back to make our Thanksgiving dinner after the parade and it worked out perfect. We left right when Charley woke up in the morning and went to the top of Central Park where it started. We met Spencer's friend who had gotten there a little earlier than we did and saved us a spot. We were really close to the road and were able to see everything! Charley especially loved the bands playing and the huge balloons!

Megan Trainor

Nick Jonas

Loving the view! 

My hot husband on the subway home from the parade! 

We got home and actually were able to take a nap before we started the turkey and cooking everything else! It went so smoothly. We had Thanksgiving dinner with our neighbors, Megan and Don and Spencer's friend, Clint and a girl from our ward, Jill. Megan and I tag-teamed the menu and each chose about 5 dishes to make. Everything was sooo good! It was my first time cooking a turkey so Megan helped me with that!:) She stuck her hands all up inside the turkey to get the seasonings spread out.. what a trooper! 

Turkey cooking! 

The spread of appetizers and sparkling cider

Filling up our plates with turkey, fruit salad, corn casserole, rolls, acorn squash, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, ambrosia salad, cranberries and stuffing! 

And we can't forget about the yummy pies! Megan made a chocolate pudding pie and I made my first pumpkin pie! Then we had Tony (our building supervisor and cleaner) make us his famous sweet potato cheesecake! So good! 

Happy Thanksgiving!