Giving Thanks

Made this for my friends for Thanksgiving

Turkey Day

So this Thanksgiving is going to be different, and special. Seeing as none of us Seminary students have any money to fly home we are having thanksgiving together! The lovely family I nanny for is going away and is graciously letting us use their home for the day!!!! We get to have a fireplace, big tv for the thanksgiving parade and football, and lots of counter space, and.....A DISHWASHER! Something none of us have. Anyway we all split up the food items and I am in charge of the turkey. NERVOUS! I have only roasted a turkey once in my life, and lets just say it was a source of stress that day with Josh's dear family(Come on I was newly married and had the pressure of cooking the turkey on my first thanksgiving with His family? It was stressful!)So needless to say I have done my homework and actually have a schedule all ready to go so this thanksgiving will be Stresssss free. I am following the instructions of the lovely Pioneer Woman (if you haven't checked her out you simply must!)
She reccomends Brining the turkey so that is what I am doing! So Here is my Turkey Day Schedule!

Wednesay

11:00 pack and bring everything to the Faris house
11:30 start cooking brine solution and let cool
12:00 pop that bad bird in the solution
1:00 cut up celery and onion for Stuffing put in bags in fridge
1:30 rip up bread for stuffing
4:00 Make Pecan Pie
6:00 Matt and Kristen come to set up table put up white lights on windows, get house ready!
7:00 p.m relax with my hubs maybe build a fire! WHOO HOO!

Turkey Day!
6:00 am remove Turkey from Brine and get ready for oven!
8:00 am cook celery and onion in butter for stuffing
9:00 am put on that Macy's thanksgiving day parade!
10:00 a.m baste turkey with butter ever 1/2 hour and back in oven!
& lovely friends arrive with their goods!
11:00 am assemble stuffing and put in oven & watch thanksgiving Friends episode!
1:00 make gravy
2:00 Eat our lovely dinner!
2- whenever: relax by the fire, football, miracle on 34th street, oh and give my friends their big surprise!

It's going to be a great Thanksgiving. And that Bird better be Beautiful! Wish me LUCK!
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy your time with Family and if your like us Your Friends that have become like Family!

Friendship is a gift!

To echo my friend Emily's post, friends are truly a Survival kit. She talked about how God put us all in each other's lives right when we needed each other. Life in seminary is surly a roller coaster of ups and downs, rich times of blessing, times of being poor and money strapped, joys of learning, decision making and following God's lead, sorrow of being away from friends and family and quite lonely at times in seeking a life of ministry. In this time when we are facing hardships and trials God provided an amazing group of friends for us. Friends who know the balance of having fun and loving Jesus at the same time. We had a great time this Halloween in Salem a city that is filled with evil on a night like this, and we were able to join together as people who love God and have fun dressing up and rejoicing in each other. I loved how Emily said it "So, we all raised our glasses that night around the table to Friendship; knowing we were put in each others lives as our very own survival kits." I am thankful for them. And the blessing that they are! It's the best part of Seminary for sure.

Hello Old Friend

Haven't blogged in a million years! Well its been busy ok? Its the tourist season at the Cannon house. This means a few things: Fun. Laughter. Good Food. Showing off where we live. Cleaning. Dishes. More Dishes. (I dream of the days I had a dishwasher...sigh) and remembering old times. So far we have had :



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and yet to come:

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and Last but not least:

Can't wait!!
Anyone else want to stay at The Cannon B&B?

Sweet Home Alabama

Tomorrow we leave for a wonderful week with friends and family in Alabama and Florida! We are so excited about our time there! I will post pics when we get back.