Thanksgiving

So, I have a big confession to make. I have not one picture from Thanksgiving. I print this blog as a book once a year for Olivia to have and so I can remember everything going on (which I am SO thankful I decided to do) so it makes me so sad that we have no decent pictures from this holiday.

Even without pictures, all in all it was a GREAT holiday. We have so so much to be thankful for. We pretty much had a whole week of Thanksgiving. We started the Saturday before with my family. After a long drive to my grandfather's house to meet up with the rest of the family we discovered that Olivia wasn't feeling well and pretty much stayed in mine or Nano's lap the entire day. We later found out that she had an ear infection.

She was soon over that (thankfully) and we celebrated with my mom's side of the family in Collierville, TN and then Olivia and I stayed the rest of the week in Memphis. We had a great time relaxing and doing some much needed Christmas shopping.

On Thanksgiving Day we traveled to Oxford to celebrate with Hays' family. We had a great time and I just cannot believe I have no pictures to show of it (my excuse, the batteries were dead in my camera-true story).

I was able to complete one thing off my "to do bucket list". I know it may be silly but I have many "bucket lists" going and two of them are things to do before I die and places to go before I die. Well, cooking a turkey was one of them. I went all out and brined the silly bird for 24 hours in all sorts of things and then cooked it for 3 plus hours while taking it out every 45 minutes to cover it in its juices. All in all it was a success! True stamp of adulthood was made that day!