Turducken!

   We made TURDUCKEN!!!! (My mommy and I, Presley took some good pictures.)

  Turducken - a dish consisting of a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which itself is stuffed into a de-boned turkey.

Birds finishing defrosting.

IT WAS AWESOME! ...But it sucked to de-bone all those birdies. They were really cold and I (Garett) had to play around for awhile with them to figure out how to do it. The duck was the worse to do... I hacked that sucker up and there was not a lot of meat on the sucker. I now know why guys go out and shoot 5 of 6 of them out of the sky at a time, you might as well hunt for rats.

Hacking the duck.

They say that you can de-bone your turkey and it will cook faster and it will be much easier to carve up! After I got all the birds free from their skeletons I took this next picture of the pile of meat we had!

BAM! That's a pile of meat right?!

We padded our layers of bird with a layer of stuffing. Then we sewed it all up with some skewers.

"That looks so nasty." -Presley

 Well after 15 hours of cooking and being cut up in to small tantalizing bite size pieces even Presley loved the Turducken!

A bird with no bones = Real easy to cut up!

We kind of ended up with some visible layers.

I liked it too! I was worried that we would end up with a funky tasting pile of bird flesh and have a Thanksgiving lacking a lovely turkey bird BUT it was truly scrumptious. Next time we are going to have WHOLE STUFFED CAMEL!

Garett

i carry your heart with me

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

 --e. e. cummings 

Congrats Meg & Cam

My very best friend Megan is ENGAGED!! I am so happy and excited for her. Cam is such a great guy and I know that she is going to be a beautiful bride! I am trying to convince her that since she is engaged now its time for her to join the blogging group! Do it Meg come on!!

haha this is the only picture I had of the 4 of us.

I miss my sister :[[

Baby sister Ash

Shrimp

"Anyway, like I was sayin', shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, saute it. Dey's uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that's about it."

 -- Bubba 

We went to Red Lobster with Deidra and David for an early celebration of Garett's birthday, and we all ordered all you can eat shrimp! The whole time I was eating I couldn't stop thinking about Forrest Gump haha. It was delicious and we all left with very full tummies. After dinner David and Deidra took us to Comedy Sports, we had a blast. These funny people put on a comedy improve like show, kind of like "Whos Line is it Anyway?". We laughed a lot and I even got to volunteer in one of the games.  
 

Us at Comedy Sports

They even had fun fancy COKE :]]

Happy Veterans Day

"And I'm proud to be an American,
where at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me."

~Lee Greenwood

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.  I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

~Abraham Lincoln

Don't Hate!

MERRY CHIRSTMAS! Ok, ok. . . I know its only the 10th of November but I was just so excited! I have been begging Gare to get a Christmas tree for a while now, but all the ones we have found were so expensive! However, today I was making a trip to my new favorite store HOBBY LOBBY, and they had all of their Christmas stuff out so I decided to just "look" at their tree selection. $34.95 for this cute 5ft skinny pine tree! That is a good deal if you ask me. All of the trees I have seen up til now have been like 100 bucks! This cute lil' tree is the perfect size for our apartment, it already had lights and the ornaments were all 50% off! SCORE :]] I called my mom after I bought it and she said if I can't put it up til after Thanksgiving, psh. Then I called my sweet husband and asked him if I could put it up today, and he said YES! So I did. Please don't hate, because I am excited. It's our first Christmas tree :]]

xoxo Pres

Let It Snow

Cute ornaments!

Happy Christmas, Merry Holiday