Thanksgiving Eve and Thanksgiving 2008

Wow...what a difference a year makes! Kevin and I celebrated our very first Thanksgiving yesterday. Our festivities started Wednesday night when he got off work. We had already decided what dishes we would be responsible for and since Kevin clearly has the cooking skills in the family, he was in charge of all of the "high impact" dishes. Those dishes included my favorite desert: a yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Since we had to stay up and wait for the cake to bake we decided to go ahead and move the furniture in the living room and start the process of decorating for Christmas.

It was really fun but very exhausting moving the furniture around. We actually put the tree up but decided to wait until Thanksgiving Day to actually decorate it. I decided to get Bentley dressed for the occasion. She of course did what she does best...chilled and let us do all the work.

Although we were tired from staying up late on Thanksgiving Eve, Kevin and I were still very excited. I fixed a special breakfast....waffle sandwiches (Kevin's favorite) and we relaxed for most of the morning. We planned to eat early afternoon because we were invited to a birthday party later that evening. We started cooking around noon and were eating by 3:00pm.
While we waited for our food we decorated the tree. Now I do understand that the tree looks a little malnourished, however I've had for the past 3 years and I couldn't let it go! This was the first and last year that the "Charlie Brown christmas tree" made its appearance in the Reese household! LOL!

Well, once the food was ready we chowed down on a feast fit for a King and his Queen! All in all we had a great first Thanksgiving together. I truly had so much to be thankful for this year.