Turkeys in my house!

Yup, it's true, Charleen, Jerry and Brian came up from Southern CA for Thanksgiving! I hosted about 9 people last Thursday. It was definitely the best alternative to being home with the family. Everyone chipped in and there was a ton of food to eat. I got a 14 lb turkey to cook, and with the thoughtfulness of my mom I had all the recipes and ingredients to make herb roasted turkey, stuffing, beer bread and pumpkin pie! So I did.

This is me holding the turkey and bagging it, and Brian peeling cukes:


Once all the prep was done, we got to relax with some cranberry mimosa's. Jerry doing the honors of opening the champagne

Then, tada! Look at all this food!
slowing down...

Here's everyone around the table

Then of course, per tradition at least in my household - cleaning every last bit off the turkey for leftovers! If this isn't enough to make you go vegetarian, not sure what is.

We took a little break and watched the Big Lebowski, at least till the second dream sequence, then had some pie!
helping myself, of course
yum!

I had so many leftovers! We tried to do a re-thanksgiving dinner on Saturday night. I think we finished off the candied yams and mashed potatoes but still had tons left. I had to toss everything out this week. There are still 3 flavors of pie left, thankfully I got roommates to help out with that! Just yesterday Mari had 4 pieces!

Thanks again for everyone that came and made food - you made this one of the best Thanksgivings ever!