William and I enjoyed our first holiday together as a married couple. I actually survived preparing the entire Thanksgiving meal and only had some issues with the white sauce for the mac and cheese, but with some assistance from my mom via phone, I finally got it. The entrees included Honeybaked Ham and Smoked Turkey Breast (both purchased from Honeybaked Ham) and side items that were prepared from scratch including sweet potato casserole, macaroni and cheese, green beans, roasted squash and zucchini, sweet potato pie (I even made the crust from scratch!), and crescent rolls (store bought). I enjoyed being in the kitchen cooking for my husband while he watched football, watched a movie, and played on our Nintendo Wii (trying to beat my bowling record). I also made chess squares on Wednesday night, a recipe I got from William’s mom. I wanted William to have something familiar, not to mention that I must have eaten half the pan the first time I had them in Jacksonville when William’s mom made them. Everything turned out great and I think William was happily surprised to find out that his wife actually could cook once she took the time to do it. I even made breakfast both yesterday morning and this morning. We had Belgian waffles prepared with a waffle maker we received as a wedding gift. Today, I made William a pecan Belgian waffle, so I was pretty proud of myself. My sister, Kim, brother-in- law, Rob, and nephew Drew stopped by not too long after we ate and hung out with us for the evening. Drew entertained us with his backflips off the couch and off of Uncle William’s shoulders. He loves to be flipped upside down and never seems to get tired of it.
Today (Black Friday) we hung out and relaxed for most of the morning and then decided to venture out to join the rest of the Black Friday shoppers. We stopped by William’s favorites first (Best Buy and Circuit City), but didn’t see any deals we couldn’t pass up. We then went to NorthPark Center (my favorite mall in Dallas). I ended up buying two sweaters from White House/Black Market (one of my favorite stores), and William bought some Polo Blue aftershave. I actually prefer shopping after Christmas when the real sales begin. We then met up with one of my friends and her husband and saw Fred Claus. It was ok, but I have to agree with Cherie that you would anticipate that it would be funnier than it really was. But, since we didn’t have much to do anyway, we didn’t mind it. We saw This Christmas on Wednesday, and that was a little bit more entertaining, but still not as good as it probably could have been.
Tomorrow (Saturday) will be another day of relaxing. William is a Florida State fan and they have a big game against the Florida Gators. Go Noles!! (I hope my boss is not reading this… he is a Gator and I may get fired). Wake Forest (my alma mater) has a big game tomorrow also against Vanderbilt. They are already bowl eligible, but they are trying to become only the 5th team in school history to win more than 8 games in a season. Go Deacs!
We took lots of pictures (mainly William took pictures of me cooking as I think he needed to actually have documentation of my cooking) and we will try to download and put those on Flickr tomorrow.
Wonderful, I’m glad you guys were able to spend the holiday together.
We did not do the Black Friday thing, but we did go pre-shopping for new furniture. I was very close to convincing Nathan to stay up all night so we could go to some store at 4am just for the experience, but it did not work.
Kyllan made me sound so lazy. I volunteered to help her several times and she keep telling no.
Nikki, we just wanted to get caught up in the excitement. I think we pretty much knew before we left that we weren’t going to get anything. The deals are usually on out dated products or a bait & switch.