Thanksgiving Prep!

Well, its that time of year again! I cant even believe its here already. But needless to say I am so excited! Andrew and I are hosting our very first Thanksgiving Dinner ever at our new house!  Yesterday, I took out all of our BRAND NEW china from our wedding gifts (still in their boxes), and started to clean them. I had separated them out into.....Dinner plates, salad plates, bread plates, saucer, and tea/coffee cups.  I had 9 stacks of everything (minus the cups of course).  I decided to start washing the dinner plates first....Andrew and I dont have a dish washer, so after washing them very carefully by hand, I set them in the dry rack right next to the sink. I was onto the fourth dish, and before I could even believe what happened.........the three previous plates that I had washed, had some how fell backwards over the counter, did a sumersault in the air and splashed glass shards everywhere all over my kitchen floor.  After screaming....swearing.....crying....and peeing my pants a little, I called my mom hysterical over what had just happened. Basically, I dont think she could understand anything I tried to say for the first ten minutes! Once I stopped crying......we both kinda laughed and i felt a little bit better!  I made sure to leave the kitchen alone for the next hour because, knowing that I just broke 3 of my BRAND NEW china plates, broke my heart just a little bit, and I couldnt stand looking at it. 

Once I was fine enought to face my mess, I grabbed a box, and put all of the large salvagable pieces into it, and decided instead of throwing away my precious china, I am going to make some sort of a mosaic type platter.  No sense in throwing it away right.....Ill just have my own matching plater to my china.  Not quite sure how im going to make it yet, but Im sure you will find out when I do.

I finally finished cleaning, and drying my china, making sure to NEVER use the dry rack with my china ever again.  Now my china is resting in a safe place, waiting for it to be used for our thanksgiving meal.

On another note, im so so so excited about cooking for thanksgiving!  Just thought Id make a list of all the yummies that will be on my dinner table!

Turkey (DUH....)
Mashed Potatoes
Bread Stuffing
Meat Stuffing
Orange Crescent Rolls
Pretzel Jello Salad
Green Bean Casserole
Sweet Potatoes
Gravy
Cranberry Sauce
Pumpkin Pie
Berry Pie
.....

(I feel like im forgetting something, as if thats not enough food for the 6 people that will be at my table)

Im pretty excited, I cant wait to have a housefull! Andrews mom and grandma will be flying in on sunday, as well as Dave (andrews best man), and then andrews Dad is driving from South Dakota (where hes hunting at his familys farm) and should be here Sunday or Monday.  Everyone is staying for about a week!  We are going to take them to a Texas Tech Football game on the saturday after thanksgiving! That should be a blast! :)

I shall let you know how it all goes!

Another little note, I came home today, to find Tex sitting in the middle of a chewn up BRAND NEW box of kleenex! After punishing him, and making him go outside, I proceeded to clean it up. Where I found a chewed up tv remote....with blood on it! ew....! I continue to pick up the scraps.........and found one of Tex's Molars.  Just thought that was kinda funny!

Happy Friday! (im giong to see Harry Potter tonight, and am so excited about it!)