Turkey's funny that way...

Polar Express and The Santa Clause are my 2 favorite Christmas movies. One of my favorite parts of The Santa Clause is when Tim Allen starts the turkey on fire…


Funny that should be one of my favorite parts… But we will get to that in a minute.

Let’s start off the day with…

for my cute bff

who is SO old now!!!!!! Happy Birthday Steph!

Dallin was climbing trees...


Maggie was enjoying outside...

I can’t believe this weather! It shouldn’t be this warm on Thanksgiving!

This year it was our turn to host Thanksgiving. Seeing as our kitchen is pretty small Scott took some of our furniture to the basement so we could set tables up in our living room. We were in charge of the turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes and gravy. Not too bad. We were expecting 15 people and to eat between 4 and 4:30. Had a 14 pound turkey… or so I mistakenly thought.

There was lots of chopping and prepping…


And Scott was pulling out the "fine china"...

I realized at 11:20 that the turkey was a 20 pounder. Not 14. Oops… I should have had it in the oven an hour ago stuffed! Luckily we had a turkey bag in the house and we were saved.

Then it was lunch time... mmmmmm.... Hot wings!!

Then it’s back to business.

Scott’s sister arrived and started setting the table. We had our nice plates out…


And then I pulled out the silverware… I opened the cupboard for the glasses and this is what greets me…

This simply won’t do. So off we go to get glasses. Having 2 children under the age of 5 we don’t have many glass glasses left. It’s just not worth it to have them around the house… So at 3:00 pm on Thanksgiving we ran to Target – it was closed – so off to Wal-Mart….

Yae!!! And we were saved…

We realized at about 3:30 that we needed to put the stuffing and sweet potatoes in the oven. Oops… I had pulled out the top rack - so we pulled out the turkey to move it to the bottom rack so we could put the top rack back in.

Scott pulled it out and realized that the turkey bag isn’t entirely sealed. The corner is leaking broth. We tried to stuff it inside the pan. But of course I don’t have a roasting pan so I used a jelly roll pan… (This is where the real excitement begins)

Scott is pushing the pan back into the oven and the bag flips out of the pan, hits the rack or coils, melts, leaks all sorts of juice, butter and grease onto the bottom of the oven. There are 3 people in the kitchen. I am kind of off to the side. All of a sudden the flames are shooting out of the oven. HOLY TOLEDO! I go straight for the closet next to me and get this…

Obviously too much of The Santa Clause. No one wanted to use it. They wanted baking soda. All I could do is laugh. It was so stinking hilarious! I kept laughing and laughing!

And we were saved… (Thanks Blake and Luanne!!) Don’t people pay extra for smoked turkey??

Here is where I MUST admit – there were 3 people in the kitchen taking care of the fire. I wanted SO badly to run to my camera and get pictures of the flames shooting out of the oven and up to the top of the range! My very first thought: What a GREAT blog entry! But I refrained… I didn’t do it. I still have the visual in my brain that I wish I could take a snapshot of and put on here!!!

So dinner got pushed back. Because of that the mashed potatoes got lukewarm. I thought I would just turn on the burner and warm them up. The bottom of the pan started smoking and I smelled smoke! UGH! I burned the mashed potatoes. The whole pan had that icky burned taste to it.

Finally (2 hours late) we made it to the table and had a wonderful meal with family. Our 4 year old Dallin wanted to say the blessing on the dinner. Scott told him to make sure to thank Heavenly Father for all the things we are blessed with. Weeeeelllll…. He didn’t. BUT he did ask Him to not let there be another fire in our oven again. And hopefully we will be saved – from that at least… What a kid! There were quiet laughs all over the table but no one snorted or laughed out loud. So that was good!!!

As we were cleaning up I looked at the bottom of my “fine china” (said with a smirk).


I guess it struck a funny cord because it made me laugh that my china was made in japan. Heheheheeeee… I guess that’s what you get when you can put your “china” in the dishwasher!!!

I am pretty sure that I won’t be asked to host Thanksgiving again!!! But I do have new glasses now!

Today I am making turkey soup

And watching parts of The Santa Clause.

Oh – and this morning I went to get a Christmas Tree permit. We are going to cut a tree tomorrow! I am excited! I will try to get some fun pictures of that!!