Thanksgiving

Well Tim and I did it. We managed to make our very first Thanksgiving Turkey together without incident. Despite being miles away from the majority of family and friends it was still a nice day. There's no one else I'd rather have spent the day with yesterday. We didn't do a heck of a lot: played a board game (in which Tim beat my butt), prepped the food, watched a couple movies, etc. Just a nice relaxing day for the two of us. But the food came out perfectly, considering we've never done it ourselves before and we were working with pretty limited space. I was worried as dinner got closer that we'd have to have cold side dishes or cold turkey because there just wasn't enough room in the oven to bake everything at once. But somehow it all worked out and we had a fabulous dinner (with tons of leftovers).

I'm looking forward to being home in ~20 days. We fly back the 21st, then dress shopping in Racine with my mom, my cousin, and my sis2b on the 22nd. We'll be in Wausau for Christmas, and then back to Racine on the 27th to finish out our stay with Tim's family. I'm really excited to get to see everyone. I can't believe I've lived out here almost 7 months already! I fear I'll have a hard time saying goodbye and getting on the plane back to PDX. We'll make it though - halfway through!