Snow, Turkey, and 6 Months

Not a lot happened this past week, other than we got our first snow and it has turned really cold here. Last night we hosted 14 guests to a Thanksgiving feast. I cooked my first turkey and I must say it turned out excellent.

When we put Scarlett's jacket on she can't move her arms in her umbrella stroller, it's so sad.


About to brave the cold...


Yes, we have resorted to putting our child in front of Baby Einstein, it's a beautiful thing


Scarlett has been rolling over for awhile now, but I thought I would capture the experience. My favorite is the last picture when she has decidde she doesn't want to be on her stomach anymore. She hasn't grasped the idea of flipping back over yet.


Scarlett is 6 months TODAY, that's so crazy to think about. She has such a little personality now, she is definitely in control and she knows it. We have started (kind of) sleep training. I have a hard time hearing her cry but I have a harder time functioning on little sleep. Even in the last couple days I have seen an improvement. It also might have something to do with the fact that 3 nights ago she started flipping to her stomach to sleep. Although it's not her stomach so much as a very uncomfortable position of smashing her face into the matress and getting her arms stuck under her body. Either way last night (this morning) she slept from 3am all the way to 8:30am, ah....




Ready for church


Aftering searching all over Budapest for a turkey we finally found one. It was 17lbs (bigger than Scarlett) and it was the smallest one we could find. Every place we tried had turkeys starting at 22lbs. As I was preparing the turkey for it's brine bath I came across a part of the turkey I did not wish to deal with so Jared came to my rescue.




We invited 19 of Jared's MBA classmates for a Thanksgiving Feast (a lot of them obviously Europeans who have never experience such an event). We thought maybe half of them would come, turns out only two couples couldn't make it. It all worked out, we had plenty of food the only dilemma was seating.

We pushed our desk and dining table together which worked out perfectly except for the small problem of seating. Two of the guests were kind of enough to bring their chairs to help us out.


Everyone


Jared cutting the turkey. Please note the pan that it is in, this was the largest roasting pan I could find. The turkey hung over the edges a bit, but I was able to catch most of the drippings with tin foil so there wasn't too much of a mess. Jared butchered the turkey, he had no idea what he was doing


Feasting...


For dessert I made a pumpkin pie and apple crisp