Pamcakes and Eggs

Good Evening!

I’m healthy again! The mono seems to be out of my system for the most part and I’m feeling normal again. Time to catch up with the blog now. Aaron is currently sitting next to me reading and making fun of the fact that I took about twenty pictures of my new running shoes. I’ll show you those in a different post. I have to break up the five million pictures that I took since Thanksgiving.

First of all, Thursday morning I woke up feeling a little better. Aaron and I had breakfast together (egg sandwiches on the George Foreman!) and then I set Ted (bread machine) to work on making dough for the dinner rolls for Thanksgiving dinner. We went to Aaron’s parent’s house first around 2 PM after watching Thanksgiving parades on TV. Look how pretty the table was! Dinner rolls came out well and are in the far right corner. I used this recipe from the King Arthur Flour website for soft white dinner roll with the exception that I used two tablespoons of raw, cane sugar and one tablespoon of honey in place of the white sugar. I also let them rise (second rise) for about 2 hours total.

Aaron carved the turkey…sort of:

Aaron’s brother’s girlfriend and one of his grandmother’s in this picture:

Action shot of Aaron pouring gravy onto his plate:

My plate = sweet potatoes/white potatoes, mashed potatoes, stuffing, carrots, & brussels sprouts (+another serving of brussels sprouts):

Aaron’s pumpkin pie which I tasted:

I made Aaron’s mom a wreath and brought it along. I’ve had LOTS of free time while sitting around trying to rid myself of the kissing disease so crafting it is.

After early dinner at Aaron’s parents north of the city, we ventured to the exact opposite of the city to my Aunt and Uncle’s house. We had cookies and coffee and sat around talking until about 8:30. I was EXHAUSTED by this point so we headed home. It ended up being a great Thanksgiving! Aaron’s parents house was lots of fun and the food was great and then seeing my family was great too. Aaron finally got to meet a couple of my relatives! I’m curious to hear what Aunt Isabel reported to my mother about him….

Friday I worked for a short amount of time then came home and rested some more. Monoooooo. Saturday was pretty uneventful. Aaron was in Toronto for a show and I was just doing some chores and attempted to Christmas shop unsuccessfully.

Today (Sunday), Aaron got back into Pittsburgh around 4 AM and picked me up to go to Church at 10 AM. He’s crazy. We went to church together for the very first time then came back to my house and decided to do our little Save-the-Date photo shoot for our wedding save-the-date cards. Fun!

Mini-tripod + ladder = this plus about 30 more pictures. We haven’t decided on the exact picture or card yet but hopefully will this week!

Alright that’s about it for now. It’s almost midnight and I think time to get to bed. Back to work full-time tomorrow. Yay for the mono being gone!

Have a great week!

-Pamela