My Ambitious Thanksgiving Menu

For the first time since we have been married, Cody and I are hosting Thanksgiving for our family. Unfortunately, our entire extended family could not attend, but we are just as thankful to have both sets of our parents for Thanksgiving lunch. Not only is this our first Thanksgiving celebrated at our house, it will also be the first time we have used our fine china since we have been married. We are still collecting it, but we finally have enough to serve an entire meal! We are so excited about Thanksgiving!

Here is the menu:
Homestyle Turkey
Red Garlic Mashed Potatoes
Green Beans
Corn
Cranberry Sauce
Stuffing
Grands Biscuits
Watergate Salad
Brown Sugar Pecan Candies
Pumpkin Pie (Walmart has the best pumpkin pies, so that's where I'm getting mine.)
Apple Walnut Pie
Tea
Lemonade
Apple Cider

Another Year Older...

My husband is very thoughtful, but he sometimes has a difficult time keeping surprises from me. This year, Cody had a surprise birthday party for me, and I truly was surprised! I don't know how he managed to time it just right, but on Sunday afternoon I decided we needed to go to Sam's to pick up a few things (or at least he made me think I was the one who had decided). When we got back and opened the door to our house--SURPRISE!--our friends were waiting for me in our house for my surprise birthday party! They brought snacks and Cody had gotten me a chocolate cake from The Fresh Market. How sweet!

Since my birthday was actually on Monday, we had to celebrate on that day too! Cody took me out to eat at Chili's after I got off work. Unfortunately, they didn't have my favorite dessert (the chocolate chip cookie molten cake), but the chocolate chip paradise pie was very tasty!

Happy 26th birthday to me!

Interview #3: Greensboro

Cody had his third interview at Moses Cone in Greensboro last week. We traveled to Greensboro on Thursday to eat dinner with the residents. They took us out to eat at a restaurant called "The Avenue." This place was really nice...almost a little too nice for my picky palate. Cody ate a rack of lamb with fancy banana pudding for dessert. I had a sirloin steak with chocolate pate for dessert.

They put us up in a really nice hotel for the night, The Proximity! This hotel is a LEED platinum hotel, which means it is a very "green" hotel. Going green was very easy, as this hotel was very luxurious! Our pictures don't do it justice...






On Friday morning, Cody had to be at the Family Medicine Center for his interview. I dropped him off and decided to go shopping. I was able to get a lot of Christmas shopping done. While waiting to pick up Cody, I met Christina to chat for a while before she had to go to work. Cody's interview went really well, and he seemed to really like the program. They have an unopposed family medicine residency program, which means there aren't any other residency programs there. This is a plus because he would be able to do lots of OB/GYN, without having to compete with other OB/GYN residents.

Brody is still his 1st choice, but Greensboro is coming in at a close second. We have one more interview to go--Wake Forest on Dec. 7.

Cody's Brody Interview

Cody had his 2nd interview this week, here at Brody. On Monday night, we had dinner at a local restaurant, CPW's, with some of the residents. It was very relaxed and comfortable. Tuesday was his interview day. Everything went so well. Cody was very pleased with how all his interviews went. It looks like this solidified much of what we were already thinking...

Happy Halloween!

Every year, Cody and I always host a pumpkin carving party with our neighbors. We all get together to carve our pumpkins and eat some snacks. It's always fun to get together, but it's also neat to see what everybody carves. This year we chose to carve a spooky, haunted house. (Although I can't really take much credit for carving it--Cody did most of the work.)


Dr. Hershey--he wanted to be just like his daddy!


Dr. Hershey, with his mommy (Nurse Mel) and daddy (Dr. Cody)