Thanksgiving Weekend

Gobble Gobble!

(By the way, if you've never heard a turkey in real life, they REALLY do say ""gobblegobblegobble" )

The long holiday weekend began Wednesday evening, when I started prepping food.  I made the chocolate pudding pie and I tried a new pie recipe that sounded interesting... peanut butter and jelly pie!  Turns out, it's crap!  WAY too sweet, but Etta LOVED licking the beater!  I also went ahead an prepped the turkey before I went to bed. 

My alarm went off at 4:30am on Thursday morning.  I stumbled into the kitchen, punched 350 on the oven, tossed the bird in, and padded back to the bedroom.  I got back up for the day around 7:30 and hit the ground running.  Mixing and stirring and measuring and pouring and carving and showering and diapering and dressing and out the door by 11:45.

When we got to Granny and Pop's house around 12:30, I set-up Etta's Pack-n-Play, sound machine, and monitor in the back bedroom and tried to put her down for a nap.  Of course, she was in a strange place (for a nap) and she knew she was missing a party.  So, after much frustration, I let her out to run around and enjoy the party for a bit.  We tried again a while later and she was asleep by about 2:30.  Whew!  So, the food was good and the company was great!  Somehow I didn't take many photos... not sure how that happened!

Friday morning, I got up at about 3:45 and went shopping with the crazies!  :)  I got to Kohls (my first stop) at about 4:30am.  Target around 5:45, Chick-fil-A around 7:45 (gotta have breakfast!). Then I swiped my credit card at Staples, Office Max, Electronics Express, Stride Rite, and then, finally, I was all swiped out and I went home.  All of that and I was back home by 9:30am.  As you can imagine, I didn't do much else that day. Well, besides watch Auburn win the Iron Bowl!  War Eagle

Or the next...  Saturday was a very lazy day!  Keith got up with Etta and I got to sleep-in.  woot!  I spent the day playing with Etta, watching tv, and doing laundry.  Keith grilled steaks for dinner.

This morning, Keith and I dropped Etta off at her Grandmomma and Granddaddy's house and we went on a date.  We went to a 10:15 matinee to see Harry Potter.  I had no idea until Friday that there was such a thing as a movie before noon, but it was awesome!  We had popcorn for brunch.  Keith and I use to go to the movies every weekend.  That was years ago, though and we haven't been to see a movie since... Well, I'm not sure the last movie I saw with Keith in the theatre.  It was probably before Etta came along. So, it was a nice date. 

After the movie, Keith talked me into lunch at Demos' in downtown Nashville even though I was full of popcorn.  I still managed to eat a cup of their yummy baked chicken soup and a few bites of the blackened chicken pasta (I took the rest home and ate it for dinner). 

After lunch, we went to pick Etta up.  She was eating a snack when we got there, but she was excited to see us.  She said "dada dada dada dada" when we walked in.  Sheesh!  No one cares about Mama when Dada's around.  She eventually gave me a sweet hug.  Then, I packed up her stuff while she played piano.  A group photo and we were off!

I think we had a pretty great Thanksgiving Weekend!  Hope you did too!