Taylor and I have had a tradition from our first year of marriage called Second Thanksgiving. Since we always spent Thanksgiving with family or traveling, the following weekend we would buy a turkey on clearance and cook a whole Thanksgiving feast for the two of us. This way we could enjoy the leftovers every day for a week or two. But this 6 year long tradition has also been preparing us for our first time hosting Thanksgiving this year. Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, so I was so excited this year to finally host. I started grocery shopping two weeks in advance to prepare. However, we still ended up at the store 4 times the night before and the morning of Thanksgiving. I had failed to calculate the number of dishes I would need to cook all of the sides I wanted to, which led to the first trip to Target. Then came the dreadful over salting of the yams which required another trip to start that dish over, and then somehow we ran out of marshmallows! When all was said and done we had such an amazing meal with good friends and family and I can't wait to do it again.
We made the BEST mable, bacon turkey, courtesy of this recipe (
here). And the gravy was even better.
Couldn't have done it without my sous chef!
Moby was so tired after attacking my poor sister's chihuahua all day.
Murphy hiding from the evil cat
We went to the park after dinner
And then enjoyed the Christmas lights
