Christmas Dinner

We had a great Christmas dinner with my DB's parents and younger brother. We usually have dinner at my grandma's and sometimes at DB's mom's as well but this year my grandmother decided to go down to my mom's house for Christmas leaving us with the choice of either making dinner or no dinner. I choose dinner, of course, so we did it at our house...our first Christmas dinner. It actually turned out awesome and everything was delicious!

DB made the lonely dip and crackers while I was finishing up the rolls for dinner. I thought that I snagged a picture of the lovely humongous rolls when they were in the basket but I was apparently mistaken and as it turns out my little brother-in-law is a compulsive roll eater, which means there aren't many left to photograph. They turned out beautiful though and extremely big! DB was poking at them all day yelling about how they weren't getting big enough and then, as if they heard him ridiculing, they blew up into monsters.

*Ham gravy (sorry about the picture DB was whisking)

The dessert counter, yum! I have been baking and baking and running around like a crazy person trying to get this dinner all together. I plan to get these recipes posted soon and perhaps someone will find them interesting enough to try!

I'm sure everyone has been equally as busy and I hope that you all have a happy and safe holiday!

Merry Christmas!

Thanksgiving Dinner

Thanksgiving dinner as a whole was incredible! Most of it was made at my house and we lugged it over to my grandma's house.

The turkey was one of the things that we made at our house and it actually turned out incredible. This turkey was 21 lbs. and we have plenty of leftovers, turkey sandwiches with green olives...yum!

Brussel sprouts with bacon, these are our 'tradition', my grandma makes these are ever holiday dinner. She adds a little garlic salt to the mix and they are always delicious!

Rolls

 

 

My grandma called my mom before we left our house with most of the things we were bringing and asked for some bananas, I have an uncle that is serious about making sure there is fruit salad there. He went to the house to help early and when he realized my grandma forgot the fruit salad  he threw a fit and made her call my mom to pick up bananas.

Cooked Stuffing

Dinner turned out delicious and pretty easy. My uncle didn't get to be there but he was pretty stocked up on pumpkin pie. It took a while for DB to get back from his mom's house and from what I have heard it was a pretty hard time. Holiday's seem to be a mess when it comes to his family and I always feel so bad but there seems to be no solution.

On the other hand, my uncle is doing well and right now while he is still in the hospital it is only because they are waiting for a bed to open at the rehabilitation center they are trying to get him into. He has had physical therapists in a couple times a day to help him get up out of bed and walk around, he's having a hard time but he knows it is necessary. Thank you everyone for your thoughts!

I hope that everyone had a wonderful holiday and is having a good time if you're preparing for the next one!