is it wrong to drool all day

just thinking about a salad for dinner?

We're having this salad tonight and I can't wait. I might have only salad for dinner.

I also bought our tickets today for the final harry potter. Yay!! I decided after I think the 3rd movie that I was just going to wait and watch all of the movies when the final one was ready to come out. (but read the books as soon as they came out) So, we've been working on a harry potter movie-a-thon. ok, so we've only watched one, but tonight is #2 and tomorrow is #3

And, I just saw the preview for the first half of breaking dawn. Why oh why must they break movies up into 2 parts.

Christmas Dinner

This year we were on our own for Christmas dinner. I was totally leaving it to Dave to deal with. I don't do raw meat, and have never cooked a turkey, or a chicken... However, Dave was sick and went back to bed as soon as presents were done.

That left me to figure out how to cook a turkey.

First, I searched using my Swagbucks toolbar. It gave me some basic info, rinse turkey inside and out remove giblets and pat dry. I managed to do all of that. yay me! I also want to say a huge thanks to whoever bought us this for our wedding. I honestly thought we'd never use it.

But then I was stuck. I was sure that some seasoning was needed but didn't know what. So I called my Mother in Law. She told me what to do. First, spread butter on it and put pepper on.

Yes, I'm doing the 2 finger thing because I don't like touching meat. haha. Then I threw random spices into the turkey. Yes threw. I held the turkey up like this...

and with my other hand tossed seasoning into it. haha. Hey, whatever works. lol. Finally, My turkey was ready to go into the oven.

Dave was sleeping all afternoon. I cooked the potatoes, carrots, did the stuffing, and then this beauty was ready to come out.

Then I made some super delicious gravy and our table was ready to go.

As you can see on the far right side, Dave did get up for a bit but only had a few bites of everything. Austin loved the Potatoes and stuffing. I think the whole thing turned out amazing! I was really surprised it turned out ok!!

All in all it was a successful dinner and I'm sure in the future I will make it again, but not too near in the future. lol!

A nice day

Even though Austin wasn't here last night I was still awake by 8:30 this morning. Dave went to get his tire checked because there was a leak and I laid in bed and caught up on 2 episodes of Parenthood. I really like that show!! Then We got Austin and met Sue Chris and Owen for lunch. Came home and Austin napped while I did homework and Dave unpacked some of his clothes. Then we had Dave's parents and Brian & Korrinne over for dinner. I made a yummy butter pecan cake and a cheese dip for dinner. Everything is all cleaned up and we're just relaxing. We were watching Cars before Austin went to bed and it's still on. Dave is watching it through closed eyelids while I type this. I'm going to head downstairs in a few minutes to finish up my organizing of the craft area so I can get started on scrapbooking etc for the Craft Sale through the church.