Thanksgiving as host and hostess

We were brave this year and decided to try to host our first Thanksgiving. My favorite part (of course) was the decorating. My friend Summer and I painted pumpkins and gourds from Halloween gold for the fall season and I used them to decorate the table.



My least favorite part about hosting was cooking such a big bird. The night before I had a medley of dreams about all of the tv shows and movies and commercials about messing up the turkey. I love to host and cook, but the turkey proved to be a new challenge. Thanks to a perfect fool-proof recipe from Dad our turkey was fabulous and we barely even had any leftovers!!