Post-Thanksgiving; Pre-Christmas

We've been busy today. We took our tree and Christmas decorations out of storage, and will set up the tree tonight or tomorrow. I am looking forward to all the Christmas decorating, now that Thanksgiving is past.

We put up a Decor Elements phrase on our wall in the living room. It says "Life is Good" in a cool font. That was not very difficult, but since we have a textured wall, it was just a little tricky. Still, it looks nice and went on fairly easily. SU! now sells these phrases, so I had to get one to try out, and am pretty pleased.

We also cooked another turkey that we bought on the way home from my parent's house on Thanksgiving. We had stopped at the grocery store to see if they had any more of the fresh turkeys, since we wanted to cook another after Thanksgiving. Safeway had a bunch, but the one we took home turned out to be frozen inside. We spent some time thawing it in cold water this morning.

Yesterday, we spent some time at my sister's place, and afterwards, Ray and I did a little shopping while Chloe helped Lisa level up on Mario Kart. Ray and I picked up a roasting pan to try out, as well as a few other things. (Not much was on sale!)

So today, we roasted the now-thawed turkey using the new roaster pan with a lid. Ray's carving it now, and he says it's way better than just putting it in the oven in a disposable roasting pan. He keeps going on and on about how good it is, and it *is* way juicier than the one we cooked on Thanksgiving day!

We also took down two of the prints that I had in the living room, they'd been up on the wall since I moved in (in 2000). We decided to go ahead and try to do a "picture wall", and had bought a few frames yesterday to put up. Now we just need to get the pictures printed, and the wall planned and put up. Looks kind of bare right now! My sister and her roomie have a gorgeous picture wall, and it motivated me into doing ours.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone is having a great day today! I have a lot to be thankful for this year.

We're going over to my parent's house in a bit to make breakfast for them. Yum! Orange rolls! I'm hoping they'll turn out as good as when my Mom or my sister Lisa make them. When we get back, we'll start the turkey for a late lunch.