Happy Thanksgiving and Day After

I wanted to wish Happy Thanksgiving yesterday, but we were having too much fun. Mark and I spent the day with friends. It was nice to not be on the road this year. We love spending the holidays with family, but sometimes Thanksgiving is too short for the long drive. We end up not feeling very rested and I have a ton of events heading into the Christmas season, so we decided to just take it easy and stay here. You can read some about our day on Jamey and Jack's blog... We didn't take any pictures, sorry, but you'll find some there.

I made cornish hens for the first time for Thanksgiving dinner. That was a fun experience. I love everything that is miniature so I thought they looked so pretty on the platter. My sister Rachel thought it was funny that I said "they were so cute, and they tasted really good, too." I guess that doesn't sound so nice... I also made butternut squash soup, corn casserole, and a pumpkin cheesecake. Jamey's mom, Karyn, cooked up a feast as well with ham, potatoes, stuffing, green bean casserole, and pumpkin pie. Needless to say, we were stuffed.

And today...? Well, no shopping for us. Yep, no fighting the crowds. We just stayed home all day and took it easy. I wanted to start decorating, but I'm not quite in the Christmas spirit yet - it's been too warm lately - it only got cold the past two days. So, we're watching National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Elf is on this weekend as well, so we're going to watch those and wrap some gifts and then...then...I think I'll be ready. Maybe Sunday will be decorating day. I'll post pictures if we do.

Hope your days have been as restful as ours...