I posted a few times about how excited I was about Thanksgiving this year and it turned out really well. On Thursday I made the pumpkin pie and the dressing. Unfortunately, I was following a recipe I found online for the pumpkin pie and the recipe failed to specify when to add the cinnamon and I completely forgot about it! It tasted basically the same though, so it wasn't too bad. The dressing was pretty easy to make.

Then on Thanksgiving day, we woke up and watched some of the Macy's Parade and then started making the rest of the food (well, I did, Troy didn't do any cooking, except for stirring the sweet potatoes for a whole 3 minutes, big whoop). I put the 3 pound turkey breast in the oven and started to make the sweet potatoes and green bean casserole. Cutting the cranberry sauce was actually easier than I thought it would be. Overall, all the food turned out really well. Next year I'll probably put less sugar in the sweet potatoes and less milk in the green bean casserole. And I'll also have chicken broth handy for adding to the dressing. The little turkey breast we got didn't make much drippings, so I had to use water and gravy flavoring that came with the turkey. The dressing was pretty moist, so that was great. We also bought some Chardonnay that was on sale for $18 instead of $35, so that was a nice touch.

It was nice staying home most of the day and a lot less stressful. After watching the football game, we went for a stroll through a deserted downtown. We also watched Pirates of the Caribbean. We hope everyone else had a great Thanksgiving! We're going to Portland tomorrow, so we'll post Thanksgiving video and pictures/video from today and tomorrow starting Sunday, hopefully.