I sort of feel like I've been out of the blogosphere lately so I figured I would do a little catch up. So follow me back, if you will, to two weeks ago. I celebrated my 30th birthday on the 13th. It was a week of ups and downs, but I'm thankful for another year of life. I decided to celebrate my birthday by getting some much-needed alone time. I haven't been away from Jackson for more than probably 10 hours since he's been born, so Todd let me escape to St. Louis for three whole days to shop and spend time with my friends and sis. I wish I had taken more pictures, but I didn't. Sorry. But you'll get some later. Anyway, after my three days by myself Todd and Jackson flew up to meet me and then Todd and I got some much needed alone time too. Lindsay and John watched Jacko for us and we went out to dinner and then Todd suprised me by booking our suite at The Seven Gables Inn. I call it "our" suite because it was where we stayed on our wedding night. It's a super-cute little boutique hotel in Clayton and the Master Suite is big and quaint and has a HUGE bathtub that even Todd can fit in. So that was a nice surprise. I finally managed to get the camera out and was getting a few pics of the room and then the battery died, so this was all I got, but you get the idea. This is the big four poster bed in the bedroom.And out the door of the bedroom is the living room/dining room. Seriously, a dining room! I couldn't get a picture of the fun bathroom due to the battery issues, but trust me, it really is nice.When we got back home to the OC, we had to start getting ready for Thanksgiving. We were hosting Todd's mom and brother and family at our house this year. It was my first go at making a Turkey. I called my mom the day before and asked her all of the important questions. The first thing she asked me is, "Have you bought the turkey yet?" Of course I hadn't so her suggestion: "Buy a ham, because unless it's a fresh turkey you won't get it defrosted in time." Crap. But I did a little research and we did the "quick thaw" method of defrosting it for about 12 hours in cold water, changing the water every 30 minutes and it was ready to go by the time I needed it. One crisis averted. So the turkey and stuffing went off without a hitch after that, but I did make one mistake. I put the giblets on to boil to make broth and totally forgot about it and went downstairs for a while. When I came back up, all the water had boiled down and the pot was smoking like crazy and it STUNK! So we had to do some major airing out of the house before company arrived. Here is the finished project and Todd carving his first Turkey.I get really excited about having opportunities to use all of my entertaining things so I tried to make the table look all pretty. We don't usually get to entertain too much because we don't really have a dining room, so for this occasion we actually moved the table to the living room so we'd all have room to eat. Gotta love those small houses!
So that's about all the news from here really. Hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving!