Thanksgiving Dinner

Well I cooked and cooked and cooked. It turned out pretty well I must say. Although there were a couple hiccups.

This year I made:
Turkey
Gravy
Mashed potatoes
Homemade Rolls
Cookies
Cranberry Sauce
Corn
Green bean casserole
Fruit salad
Macaroni salad
Vege Tray
Cheese/cracker tray
Ceaser salad
Pumpkin pie

For breakfast I made
Homemade cinnamon rolls
Sausage souflee
Watermelon

I think it was too much food!! I just love to cook when I have time and I really enjoyed doing it. It all turned out. The pie was a little off this time. Then, the turkey never completely thawed so I had to thaw it with warm water.

I cooked it in a bag and followed the directions to the T. I baked it @ 350 for 2.5 hrs it was a 13lb turkey and when I took it out it was DONE. Like it looked done done. Then as I went to cut into it. It was still uncooked on the inside. So I had to throw it back into a bag and bake it another 35 mins.

It all turned out, but while the turkey was baking the mashed potatoes got all cold and hard. Then the rolls cooled off.

I know every year will get better and better! The food all was really really good!! :-) And it was a nice day!!

Next year I will plan better. Mybe do some of the baking earlier in the week if possible or earlier the day before. I was up Wednesday night until midnight baking and up at 6:30 putting breakfast in yesterday. That's what Thanksgivings all about. I loved watching McKinley trying everything! She was so happy. You're suppossed to have all kinds of food you don't have everyday!!

I hope everyone had a great day! We did...

I'm ready to commit

Okay, I have thought long and hard about this. I am not one to make any quick decisions. But, I know I need a dog. I know this is the dog for me. I can just feel it. My big 2-7th is around the corner which is pretty much a big deal and I think that is when I will need this dog. He is perfect. I need a little boy..This will really complete me! :-)

I'm addicted to this game!!

That's right. I am...I may be a complete dork. I love it though..I play on "normal."

http://www.pogo.com/marketing/landing/lp-stackem-mt.jsp?sourceid=stack_%22em_Exact_Free_GOO_C0001_A0001_LP0001

I love it!! Try it out!! It helps pass time if you are waiting on something...like a turkey!

:-)

Not feeling good

Today I'm not feeling good.I feel just ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I have a horrible headache and even worse cramps. I just wanna crawl in bed and watch Bridget Jones and eat Brownies. My head feels like it is about to explode. My back has this horrible pain and my stomach is burning. I'm so irritable. I am just like ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!! I hate Verizon. I am so T'd off. Like seriously? My phone still isn't working? Right! Thanks for the good customer service..idiots! And then I'm frustrated that there is no chocolate to be found in this house. I can't find any at all. I just don't feel good at all and I am hungry. There is no midol or ibuprophen. Can someone tell me where it goes? I just don't know! I'm gonna call Verizon first of all and let them have it!

Just so we are clear, shortening DOES go bad!

So, here I am at a point in my lfie where I am wanting to just BAKE BAKE BAKE!!! Which Iwill admit I am not the best at. I just don't have the particular knack that some others do! So, I in the recent weeks I have made successful cupcakes which I felt really proud of!! They were chocolate :-) They weren't perfect but they were good. So after making these I thought hmmmmmmmmm what now? What challenging thing should I take on next? Chocolate chip cookies of course. I have yet to this day to make a successful batch. I either put WAY to much flower in, or I burn them or they come out to runny and melt into one big cookie! lol So anyway here we are making the cookies. I have all the ingredients, even shortening which I thought I was out of because I had bought some and used it. Luckily wayyyy in the back of my cupbaord I found a thing of shortening, on of the round things. So I'm mixing. McKinley was mostly mixing. I kept thinking huh? I feel like this is looking a little off and smelling a little off, surely it isn't the shortening!! It can't go bad! So I thought ehhh I will just keep adding? I was like but good lord what the heck is that smell? So I tasted it! YES I DID! I tasted it like 3 times, that is my problem with baking, I don't listen to myself. So.. then I was like well, the shorting was kind of odd looking. It was clear and had kid of a runny feel to it! lol So I looked at the bottom of the can and it said it expires 01-02-06 I was like OH MY GOSHHHHHH!! YUCK! So I was rinsing everything off down the disposal I put lemon wedges in there and ice. But then I was like ewwww I can taste it. It made me sick. I felt so naseous. I think mostly because I knew I had just eaten that.. So I made popcorn and it went away..ha ha McKinley was a little peeved no cookies never came of it. But, just so we all know SHORTENING GOES BADDDDDDD!!! In conclusion I have yet to make chocolate chip cookies!!

Updates!!!

I need to blog more!! I just have all these other things on my list of to dos each day. By the time I get to blog "which I LOVE" I am too tired or I need to do something else!!

But here are some updates!!

1. For those of us who know I was "turning over a new leaf this week?" Well......it didn't quite work out!!
I was trying to turn over a new leaf in life. A lets get fit leaf...a Let's get in shape leaf if you will. So, I thought heck! Why not do that by riding my bike to work 3 days week. It really isn't far. It's only 2.52 miles.......HOWEVER!!

I started the other day. I got all ready to go....got on my bike. Started riding and let's not forget there are A LOT of small hills on the way to work. I rode the WHOLE way. No getting off and walking my bike. When I got to work after my long 25 minute ride. I felt naseous..it was horrible. My hands were shaking...my upper lip had this odd feeling. I was totally out of it that day. I am telling you.

So...I think I will not be riding 3 days a week. I WILL be turing a new leaf STILL! Of course :-)

I think I will do lunges and a 30 minute jog 3 days a week for now. I will report how that goes!!

Update 2
I am still working on my crafting/baking! Tis the season!! I am currently waiting on my cupcakes to get done in the oven. I have set the timer soI have about 5 mins left. I am going to make a peach pie this weekend and also some cookies. My mother in law "who I adore" sent me a baking package full of all I could want and more. She is just such a sweetheart. Also she made me the best Apron which I OF COURSE will post a pic on here!! So yes. I have just been using all my new things cooking away.... I have decorated for Christmas already! lol I am just in some kind of mood.

Update 3
McKinley will be 3 VERY SOON! Ahhhhhhhhhh She is growing up so fast!

I'm sooooo in the mood!

I am so in the mood to just bake bake bake! But all I have is foil and a cake pan :-( I really want to make some festive cookies. Also, I want to make banana bread. I need to run down to like a goodwill or something and pick up some stuff...It's sad. I have nothing for baking now. I am going to proceed with my fall/winter plans to bake though!! Just now yet.

Targeting your Gluteus Maximus

Alright.. it's time. I'm tried of the jokes!! I have been teased one too many times. Some say it's a "compliment?" Chhhhhh ya!! I'm a girl. What girl wants to hear "You have no butt!" "Ohhhh Kara, you have no curves." "Awwwwwww baby, your curvless" Ohhhhhh hunny your flatter than a stacka pancakes" Honestly thank u ALL for your compliments!! But I am gonna target my Gluteus Maximus as of now so I will be just one curvy gal!

Holiday Season!!

Okay I saw this picture and of course I had to share it with you all!! It just got me that much more excited for the Holiday season:-)I'm so excited for Christmas this year! Really just the whole season in general. I can't wait to decorate. I got the candles out. I love the smells of Fall and winter. The pumpkin and the spices. Which brings me to my next point baking and sewing. Yesit is that time! I need to do it. Learn to bake and then sew again. I can sew kind of. I need to bust out the ole' Singer and put it to good use. I also need to stop buying the "Break and Bake" cookies and just get down and get serious about baking. What is it about me and baking? It could be that I have no baking dishes or cookie sheets! Foil may be the problem. Also I am missing some of me measuring spoons and cups...McKinley?? Ahh well I will do it! I want to make sugar cookies with McKinley. Not the burnt kind that I typically make each year lol! Poor Aaron. He is so sweet. He deserves edible cookies. Next a peach pie. One because as most of us know I haven't made one in my life. Second because my hubby wants one. So either I buy one or make one. Might as well learn how now. Third, and this will really be the kicker. Bread! Yes bread. Homemade bread. I want to make other things too. I plan to one baking mackine this fall and winter. Somewhat of a Martha Stewert if you will.

As for sewing? I want to start with some pillows, maybe a table runner. I want to make some hot pads, maybe I will knit a sweater.... ha ha!! What will happen is I will take up sewing again and I will want to sew anything and everything!! lol We will have 28 hotpads!! Can never have enough. So yep that's the POA for the next few months!

Every since we carved our pumpkins I have just been so excited for fall and winter I am just on the festive mood!! Then I saw that picture and I just had to blog about my ideas!!