Counting Down to Turkey

We had a busy weekend preparing for Thanksgiving and all of our company! We did manage to sneak in some fun too...

Friday night we had Fondue Night with the Schmidts and Literskis (the same friends we did the progressive dinner with). Literskis hosted and were in charge of the cheese course. They had two types of cheese fondue with bread, crackers, veggies. YUM! Ryan and I brought the main course. Hot oil with chicken, beef, peppers, and mushrooms. Another YUM! Then Schmidts brought the dessert. Two types of chocolate fondue with cookies, GF brownies, angelfood cake, strawberries, marshmallows, pineapple and bananas to dip. YUM YUM! Needless to say, we ate well!














Saturday we got an early start - up at 7:30 to pack up stuff for Goodwill. We filled most of the car! It felt great to get rid of that much stuff! Then we went to Whole Foods, Costco, Super Target. We actually made a round through Target, hauled it to the car and made another round. Hopefully we've got everything we need for Thanksgiving and having company around the rest of the weekend. We cleaned like crazy when we got home - dusting, vacuuming, bathrooms, laundry.




Saturday afternoon Ryan went to the Iowa/MN football game. Iowa creamed the Gophers! While he was gone I met up with Harmony for dinner at Big Bowl. Mmmmm!

Sunday was church, more cleaning and then I ironed for 3 hours! It's like I have a whole new wardrobe! That afternoon our friends Steve and Sarah came over to cook dinner. We flipped through cookbooks and settled on spicy peanut chicken. We had a few potentially disasterous moments but in the end it was great! And really fun to hang out!

Ryan won Wild tickets at work today so he's at the game with some coworkers. I just got home from Step-n-Tone (flashback to 1990 anyone?!)

We're counting down until our company arrives - they should all be here Wednesday afternoon/evening. YAY! I have that afternoon off to bake a couple pies and peel potatoes. And you better believe that I'll be rocking out to Christmas music! :)