Happy Thanksgiving!

We had our Thanksgiving Dinner on Friday this year since my sil, Lucia and fam were spending Thursday with her parents. Here are some of the highlights....

I spent most of Wednesday and Thursday cleaning and cooking so that on Friday I would be able to just pop things into the oven - I even cleaned the fridge and the oven and all the countertops were cleared - a major feat for my kitchen - I even have the pictures to prove it:



That is it, my entire kitchen - can you say tiny?? But hey, at least it is (er, was) clean.

Moving along to the turkey. Pete was in charge of the turkey, and boy did he do a great job - it was a beauty!


Funny story: On Wednesday evening, Ahren announced that she wanted to dress in an old-fashioned outfit - including a bonnet. I tried to explain that there wasn't enough time to find her a dress or even for me make one, but assured her that we would figure out something. She had a prairie-style dress that agreed was a bit old-fashioned in style and I stitched up a little white bonnet from an idea I found on the internet. Luckily, we had all the items needed on hand. I think she looked awfully cute with her braids and her pilgrim bonnet.



What's Thanksgiving if you don't burn something?, I present for you the crescent rolls (that's me holding them when I realized they were still in the oven after the meal was over):


I was actually able to get some knitting done, too. I finished Baby Einstein (forgot to take pics today) and even finished the second sleeve on Ahren's sweater (which isn't even a Christmas gift, I don't know why I felt I needed to finish it today??). Right now Ahren's sweater is blocking.

This is really the first thing that I have blocked. I made a makeshift blocking board, but I think I might look for a good deal on a cheap area rug like Bonne Maire does. While trying to figure out how best to do the blocking, I found the very helpful on blocking at Knitty. Love Knitty!

Now to try and make the kitchen look like what it looked like this morning. Wish me luck!