Birthdays and Turkey Time

Back to trying to finish updating you all on what's been going on... Marc and Byron both celebrated their birthdays in November so we went to our favorite Texas-Style restaurant (Hill Country) and then headed over to a hole-in-the-wall for a few cocktails. Let's just say a few drinks turned into us arriving at our respective homes around 2:00am the following morning - good times although Jess says she refuses to go out with Marc again, too much peer pressure - haha!

Above is a picture of the group from our birthday night out...This is Marc with his gift from my family - it's awesome! One of those jerseys has his name on it...very cool - perfect for his office! He loved it - as you can see.

Of course, following Marc's birthday weekend came Thanksgiving and our first attempt at making an entire Thanksgiving meal, all by ourselves....i.e. no parents to help or supervise! In complete honesty, there were several calls made to both sides of the family so although maybe not here in person, they were all here in spirit - and helped us follow directions to achieving our perfect Thanksgiving meal.

Here's Marc with the turkey in marinade - we used an Emeril recipe and it turned out yummy...not too shabby for our first attempt at cooking a turkey!

Here's our bird - post oven, haha. It really turned out great - a little dry in places but we were both very proud of us as were our parents AND Byron and Jess, who had to eat the meal we cooked. We were thankful not to have to order out after all of this work! :-)

Our Resident Turkey Carver

Here's our meal all set up - ready to go! We were so excited about the food that we forgot to take any pictures of us all enjoying our day and meal. Between football and so much food we almost popped, we had a great Turkey Day!