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!!