This year was my first time cooking the entire Thanksgiving dinner. Joey’s family was out of town on Thanksgiving so it was just my parents, my grandma and my sister that came over.

Cooking Thanksgiving dinner is lot of work! I don’t think I have ever spent so much time in the kitchen. Wednesday night I made my mother-in-law’s famous Chocolate Angel Strata Pie. It is the most complicated and time consuming pie I have ever made. I think I will need to make it a few more times so it will be easier to make or maybe I’ll just wait and eat it when my mother-in-law makes it Anyway. It turned out okay. (Not quite like my mother-in-law’s.)

Wednesday night I also made a homemade cranberry sauce (it was delicious) and got some things ready for a homemade green bean casserole I saw on the Food Network. It was a lot more work than the Campbells version but it was pretty tasty.

Thursday morning my mom came and helped me get the turkey and her famous stuffing/dressing ready. Then everyone came over a couple hours later to eat.

Here are my parents and sister:

and Joey, Me and Granny:

Granny would probably like you to know that her forehead is red because of the radiation treatments she’s had for her skin cancer.

Overall, Thanksgiving turned out great. I enjoyed hosting my family and wish Joey’s family could have joined us too. I wonder who will be cooking next year’s feast?