Okay so it isn't really our first Thanksgiving as a married couple, but it is the first out of three where we ate a traditional Turkey dinner that we cooked! Anyway, Thanksgiving this year was a five day event. I flew down to Texas on Tuesday after school and arrived in Killeen at 0715 on Wednesday. Nathan was able to pick me up from the airport and then dropped me off at home were I tried to take a nap while he was at work. When Nathan got home from work we made a list and went shopping for all of the yummy things we wanted to make for Thanksgiving dinner. Well we started off with a plan to go shopping but we soon got sidetracked by paying rent, and dinner at Texas road house. We made it to HEB about 1700, this as a mistake. Shopping can be hectic on a normal day in Killeen but on the day before turkey day you might as well just stay home. HEB was PACKED, it was nearly impossible to maneuver a cart down any of the isles that we needed to go down since every one was pretty much shopping for the same thing. We finally made it out of the store and home where we hung out playing cards and dancing to our wedding reception music. Did I mention that our 2nd anniversary was on Monday the 22nd? Since our anniversary is pretty close to Thanksgiving we decided to make this trip an anniversary present to ourselves. Okay, sorry I got side tracked. We woke up on Thursday morning and just hung out, wrote a menu, and a cooking strategy. Once we decided to get started with cooking, we realized that we didn't have a meat thermometer. So we put the turkey in and hurried off to HEB around noon, all I have to say is it was like night and day at the store. It was pretty much empty and we were able to get in and out very fast. Once we got home we started working on all of our tasty sides. We had fruit salad, mashed potatoes, gravy, asparagus, gelled cranberry sauce, stuffing, and poppy seed muffins. Luckily we were able to time everything just about perfectly and our turkey was ready to carve while I set the table with all of the goodies. Nathan did an awesome job carving the turkey. The turkey was so juicy and delicious, it was the best thanksgiving dinner I have had in a long time. We had so much fun making it together and we were so thankful to be spending that time together. We had a pretty lazy thanksgiving evening and when we woke up on black Friday went for a walk out by Dana Point and then came home an had yummy omelets for breakfast. We spent most of the day shopping for a new computer because Nathans laptop went on the frits on Wednesday night. We finally decided on a computer and then worked on setting it up. After we did as much as we could, which wasn't much we had pizza for dinner and watched a movie and ate popcorn and candy at home. It was so nice to snuggle in our lovesac and watch a movie. The next day we got up had a yummy thanksgiving breakfast and finished setting up the computer. Then we went on a little trip down to the mall in Austin. We didn't really buy anything important, besides password (we are the undefeated champions!), we just enjoyed walking around the mall together holding hands and talking. Once we were done we headed home, where we changed into our fanciest duds and went out to dinner at Cheddars restaurant, one of our favorites. We ate a yummy dinner and then walked over to my favorite place to get desert and we had one last desert date at YO YO's. After dinner and dessert we went to HEB and picked up some candy and headed home for another night in the lovesac watching movies and eating popcorn and candy. Sunday we slept in and just enjoyed being together. I had to leave at 1640 and it was really hard to go to the airport and go through security knowing I would never be back to Killeen again and I had to leave Nathan there all alone. I will admit that I cried, and I know it is only for three weeks or so but it still stinks to be apart. I just can't wait for Nathan to get back to Washington.
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