Thanksgiving in Denver

This is our beautiful turkey Golden. (we named it Golden because it was going to be golden brown when we ate it). I was so excited to get our first turkey together. When we were at the store I secretly wanted to lift it up over my head and do a crazy "yip yip yip." I did manage to contain my excitement at the store, barely.

Here goes Golden into its sauna. Cook Golden, cook!

Golden did cook. And look it turned out golden brown and delicious!

This is our table with all the food on it. You will notice that our center piece is a festive looking pie pan. A certain somebody (whose name rhymes with penny) would not let me get a beautiful harvest bouquet for our center piece. Declaring that we would not have room on the table. (but really this person was just being a holiday scrooge).

While we have been living here in Denver we have not had much room to put up our table, just using a card table that we can set up and take down, today we moved stuff around to make room for our table. And it's a good thing we did, because we had a lot of food. We made turkey, rolls, yams, mashed potatoes, we had a little relish plate, and a pretzel jello salad. (My very first jello making experience. and it was delicious). This is our before shot. (and yes those are turkey's on our plates).

Kenny eating a heaping spoonful of mashed potatoes. When we normally eat dinner it takes us about 10 to 15 minutes to eat. But I was determined that if we were going to spend two days making this meal we were going to eat for at least 30 minutes. So that's why Kenny looks a little full, because we hadn't made it to our time limit. Plus, it is a Thanksgiving tradition to eat so much that you feel like you are going to explode. (And we did make it 30 minutes and it was easier than I thought it was going to be. Though I did do most of the talking and Kenny did most of the eating).


This is our after shot. If you look closely you'll see that the food barely has a dent in it. Looks like we'll be eating Thanksgiving for a week! Though on the plus side clean up was really easy. The containers we put the food in all had lids, so all we had to do was put a lid on them and put them in the fridge. We didn't even mean to do that, it just worked out that way. Which was just awesome.

Several hours later we at our pies. Pumpkin for Kenny and chocolate for Megan. And yes that is our turkey that you see. I thought it would be fun if we just left it out for awhile so we could pick at it. And I'm glad we did, because I really enjoyed picking at it. I probably at more doing that than at the actually dinner. Kenny was still feeling to full to really enjoy it.

Our first Thanksgiving was a success!!

Oops

Since I've been married I've filled up the car two maybe three times. Pretty much because I have an amazing husband that does it for me, or I wait until the next time that he drives the Pontiac (hereafter known as the Beast) so he will take care of it. For two days the car has been beeping at me that it was low on fuel. But I just ignored it and carried on my way.

Yesterday, I made my all the way over to the library with the light on. Only to get to the library to remember that it was Veteran's day. Curse you library! (Imagine my fist shaking in the air).

I knew it was Veteran's day. They had talked about it on TV all morning long. I knew that November 11th was Abbie's birthday/Veteran's day. But still I got in the car and drove all the way the library (stupid library) and drove all the way back with the light blinking at me.

When Kenny got home from school last night I casually mentioned that the car was out of gas. He just turned to me and said, "Did you fill it up?" I just laughed and replied, "No". In which case he just rolled his eyes at me. (he'll tell you he didn't but we both know he did). I was secretly hoping that he would take the Beast to school and fill it up. No such luck. The task fell to me.

So today I had to go back to the library (stupid library) to get my books that were on hold. After putting it off all morning I finally dragged myself outside and climbed into the car. Two minutes later the car beeped at me. "Lame" I thought, because of course I had forgotten the car was out of gas.

There is a gas station close to our apartment, like practically across the street, but to get to it I would have had to turn left, but to get to my destination I wanted to turn right. I didn't want to back track (or make a left turn from the gas station because it's hard to turn left there. Though the more I think about it I don't think I can turn left from that gas station.) so I went right saying to myself "I'll stop at the first gas station I see" Because after turning right I suddenly realized that I had no idea where there was a gas station. On the way to the library (stupid library) it's mostly residential and I didn't remember ever seeing a gas station. So I started thinking to myself "I could probably make it to the library and back without worrying about it."

About a mile away from the apartment the Beast chugged and started slowing down. I was like "Noooo, please don't die on me." I knew I should have just turned left. I started picturing myself stranded in the middle of the road, having to call Kenny and explain to him what had happened. Then waiting for him to come and get me. Right when I thought this was all going to happen, the Beast got a second wind and started going again. I came around the corner and behold a 7/11. It was sketchy looking and normally I probably wouldn't have gone there, but at that point I didn't care. It was a miracle! Hooray for the scary 7/11!

I got back into the car to continue on my quest to the library (stupid library). Thinking to myself "Well that was a fun little adventure." I was cruising along down the road, just listening to the radio smiling to myself enjoying the feeling of getting out of a potentially bad situation. Suddenly, the area did not look familiar. The houses, the road, the trees all looked out of place. I hit a T in the road that I have never seen before and was forced to turn right. Now this is not the first time I've gone to the library (stupid library) since I've been here. I go all the time. And I go the same way. I grabbed my cell phone and called Kenny. (Luckily, I had my phone. The last time I got lost I didn't have it).

As soon as he answered I started screaming "I'm lost I'm lost." (And this is why I have a great husband, he didn't laugh at me), he just calmly asked "what road are you on?" "I don't know, I'm lost , I'm lost. Oh wait I'm coming up on 6th" After that he was able to help me get back to the right road. I had driven right through the road I was suppose to turn on. He stayed on the phone with me until I knew where I was. Luckily, Kenny has a map in his head. But after all that I did manage to make it to the library (stupid library) and made home in one piece. Now that I'm home and safe I won't be leaving for the rest of the day, unless Kenny drives. I'll just sit here on the couch and enjoy the books that I got.

Snow Day!

So, it was a couple of weeks ago and since then we have days in the 80's, but we had a winter snowstorm in the middle of October. The storm lasted 2 days and we ended up with a foot and a half of snow! The storm was bad enough that they sent everybody home at 1:00 on wednesday. The next they called off the whole day as a snow day. Megan and I just spent the whole time inside out of the storm which is why all the pictures are taken from our apartment. It was really hard to get back into the swing of things after a day and a half off from the school. I wonder if this is a sign of things to come!

Wicked

A couple of weeks ago we went and saw Wicked. I was so excited that we got to go. I've been wanting to see it for years. And it didn't disappoint. I would go to it again and again. It was so much fun to go to. Can't wait until I get to see it again. This video is with the original Broadway cast, Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel. Enjoy.