Thanksgiving in January!

Back in November, Winco had this great deal going... If you spent $100 you could get a free turkey! Well, my intention was to go in and do all the regular shopping we needed and if the turkey happened, then great. If not, I was ok. Well I decided that I was going to snag a turkey while I was back in that section so if I made that great $100 mark I wouldn't have to do the run to the back of the store to grab one. As I was checking out I watched as the number continued to grow. Sure enough, my total was $100.85! Sweet! A turkey for free! My parents said I could store it in their deep freezer as long as they could help eat it :)


Well the holidays came and went and while we had plenty of turkey dinners, we still had our very own to tackle! As we were planning our meals last week, Bryan brought up the turkey. So we decided to make our turkey dinner! Yay! I was soooo excited! I knew it was going to be absolutely delicious! As we figured out what we needed to buy and make, we realized that we were going to need some advice. Bryan called his mom and got all the wonderful recipes for the turkey, stuffing and gravy and I decided to attack the rolls and pies. My mom said she would help so she took charge of the potato area. Mashed and sweet :)


Preparation started Thursday night when Kaden and Bryan got the bread ready for the stuffing. Early Saturday morning I put the turkey in the sink to thaw. Sunday morning the real action began! Bryan worked on all things turkey while I whipped up a pumpkin pie and a chocolate banana cream. Our entire house smelled just delightful! We managed to get all of our prep complete and headed off to church. When we got home I was so excited! Our home smelled like Thanksgiving! Yay! It was a success! My family began to arrive and we had a delightful Thanksgiving in January :)

It kinda reminds me of Charlie Brown Thanksgiving :)

How cute is he?! ;)