We have so much to be thankful for, and I feel like I should just name a few things. We are grateful for jobs, at a time when they are soooo hard to come by. We are thankful for our families, and our friends (most of whom are like family to us). We are so happy we chose to move to Nashville- we have found even more great friends who love us like family. We are truly blessed by our loving Father in Heaven.
In our 6 years of marriage, we have been fortunate enough (and probably a bit spoiled) to spend the holidays with both our families each year.
Since it's been a rough few months, we decided to stay home for Thanksgiving this year and try doing the cooking ourselves.
We started the festivities early this morning with homemade eggnog for breakfast. =)
Our appetizer to munch on while cooking- cranberry salsa, served over cream cheese. (Thanks for the recipe, Tiff!)
The spread! Matt smoked the turkey yesterday using apple wood chips. We had the usual suspects: mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, stuffing, cranberry sauce, acorn squash, homemade rolls (Matt), taffy apple salad, and pumpkin pie. We made everything, except the cranberry sauce.
We had a lot of fun preparing the meal, but wowsa, it's a lot of work! We have a ton of leftovers! Who wants to come help us eat them?
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Ooo, pick me for the leftovers! Smoked turkey is a-MA-zing. And I'm so glad you found a job. Congrats!!
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