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Saturday, March 2, 2013
thanksgiving {co style}
Some of you might be wondering how long I could possibly draw out the rehashing of one holiday. Oh, I can draw it out. It's the second day of March and I am just now bringing to you the second (and last, phew) post on Thanksgiving.
The morning of Thanksgiving, my parents delivered me to the airport in KC, and I flew back to Colorado. I helped with a few last-minute cleaning things, and Brian's parents arrived! It was great to go from thinking about a week or so before that I wasn't going to get to see any extra family to seeing quite a few!
I can't say I remember a whole lot of what we did. We did head to Target late on Thursday night to get some Black Friday deals on dvds and towels. CU women's basketball was hosting a tournament that weekend, so we went to their game on Friday and watched them win. This was the first women's game we had been to in a while, and we realized, wow, this team has changed. The game was very exciting. This actually kicked off a devout attendance for us this season, and it has been a really fun season of basketball. The team has been ranked for many weeks now, and is currently ranked #19; we are hoping to be able to watch them play in the NCAA tournament (either on TV or maybe we'll buy tickets to the first 1 or 2 rounds that are actually being held at CU and hope they play there). But anyway, Thanksgiving.
Brian and I had never done a turkey before, and we were glad to have a reason to try it! Saturday we spent quite a bit of time preparing food, and we ended up with a lot to offer: turkey, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, baked sweet potatoes, whole wheat rolls, salad, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie, and then Bruce and Pat also brought MCC Sale bohne berrogi and sauce and verenike, for which I made a ham gravy. You know any day you make three kinds of gravy is a great day! (I had also made sausage gravy for our brunch on Saturday.)
We ate well, and then headed back to the events center for more basketball where we got to see the Buffs win the tournament! What a wonderful holiday it was.
The morning of Thanksgiving, my parents delivered me to the airport in KC, and I flew back to Colorado. I helped with a few last-minute cleaning things, and Brian's parents arrived! It was great to go from thinking about a week or so before that I wasn't going to get to see any extra family to seeing quite a few!
I can't say I remember a whole lot of what we did. We did head to Target late on Thursday night to get some Black Friday deals on dvds and towels. CU women's basketball was hosting a tournament that weekend, so we went to their game on Friday and watched them win. This was the first women's game we had been to in a while, and we realized, wow, this team has changed. The game was very exciting. This actually kicked off a devout attendance for us this season, and it has been a really fun season of basketball. The team has been ranked for many weeks now, and is currently ranked #19; we are hoping to be able to watch them play in the NCAA tournament (either on TV or maybe we'll buy tickets to the first 1 or 2 rounds that are actually being held at CU and hope they play there). But anyway, Thanksgiving.
Brian and I had never done a turkey before, and we were glad to have a reason to try it! Saturday we spent quite a bit of time preparing food, and we ended up with a lot to offer: turkey, mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, baked sweet potatoes, whole wheat rolls, salad, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie, and then Bruce and Pat also brought MCC Sale bohne berrogi and sauce and verenike, for which I made a ham gravy. You know any day you make three kinds of gravy is a great day! (I had also made sausage gravy for our brunch on Saturday.)
Friday, January 4, 2013
thanksgiving {kc style}
Just one of the things I was thankful for during Thanksgiving season is that I got an entire week off from work. And I was glad that my break lined up exactly with Brian's, which would be nice for traveling...except that Brian ended up having a lot of work he needed to get done and decided it would be best not to travel during the break. I, however, decided that, instead of wasting my life away browsing the internet day after day (let's be honest) and not getting to see any of my family, I would fly to KC to visit Mark & Emily. They were gracious about accepting my presence at a busy time -- right in the middle of a move to their new apartment.
We checked out the Gear For Sports warehouse sale, where I bought a bunch of $10-$15 Under Armour hoodies for teams I don't care about / have never heard of. I mean, a good quality hoodie is a good quality hoodie. Plus, one of them was for Bethel University, which I thought was neat. I had to think of you, Tine, because, for whatever reason, there was lots of Huskies gear, but since my team is in the same conference, I couldn't bring myself to purchase any of it. :)
Mark & Emily hosted a Friendsgiving that was a major feast. Here's Mark with his first ever roasted turkey (it was delicious!)
Turkey protecting itself from aliens.
Mark & Emily got me and another of their friends hooked on the show Revenge while we were there, so we spent a lot of time on their sectional. I may have to subscribe to Hulu Plus now (and also because stupid Parenthood is only making their last episode available for free, and I can't very well miss 2 or 3 episodes in the middle of the season).
{UNNECESSARY UPDATE: Parenthood on Hulu is back on my nice list.}
The next evening, mom & dad drove up, and we had a Thanksgiving meal of our own. The father of one of Mark & Emily's friends smoked a turkey for us. Oh. My. Gosh. Smoked turkey is so yummy. I want one every year. We also had a bunch of leftover sides from Friendsgiving, we had made up a batch of our grandma's recipe for whole wheat rolls, and mom made pies!
Here's a fun activity for you: Go back and forth quickly between the next two pictures. 1. how we really spent a lot of our time. 2. when we realized we shouldn't look so slouchy for a picture.
We checked out the Gear For Sports warehouse sale, where I bought a bunch of $10-$15 Under Armour hoodies for teams I don't care about / have never heard of. I mean, a good quality hoodie is a good quality hoodie. Plus, one of them was for Bethel University, which I thought was neat. I had to think of you, Tine, because, for whatever reason, there was lots of Huskies gear, but since my team is in the same conference, I couldn't bring myself to purchase any of it. :)
Mark & Emily hosted a Friendsgiving that was a major feast. Here's Mark with his first ever roasted turkey (it was delicious!)
{UNNECESSARY UPDATE: Parenthood on Hulu is back on my nice list.}
The next evening, mom & dad drove up, and we had a Thanksgiving meal of our own. The father of one of Mark & Emily's friends smoked a turkey for us. Oh. My. Gosh. Smoked turkey is so yummy. I want one every year. We also had a bunch of leftover sides from Friendsgiving, we had made up a batch of our grandma's recipe for whole wheat rolls, and mom made pies!
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