Christmas Season is Here!!!

Happy December!  I'm soooo excited that it's Christmas season!!  Our house is decorated (pictures coming soon), I've made a good dent in my Christmas shopping, and I'm starting to feel that Christmas spirit!  But, before I can share my Christmas Bucket List and my Christmas Movie List with you, I should wrap up November!! 

My first time ever cooking a turkey went great!!  In case you missed my last post, our sweet neighbor gave us a fresh turkey on Tuesday, so on Wednesday while I was working from home I cooked my first turkey!  It was 20 lbs, so it took like 4.5 or 5 hours, and it was actually kinda fun to cook!  I didn't love prepping it, but I liked basting it and seeing its progress throughout the day.  Plus, the smell was amazing.  Kevin got home from work and it was all ready to come out of the oven (perfect timing!), and then he carved it up!  While he was carving it we both had the idea that we should give one of the breasts to our neighbor that gave us the turkey, so we took that over to her house before we even started eating our meal! 

My turkey!  I rubbed it with butter that had sage, thyme, and I can't remember what else.  It was delicious though! 

Our Thanksgiving was awesome, and McGee's dad out-did himself again!  The food was awesome, and we also got to hang out with Kevin's cousin's new baby!  Her name is Elena, and she's only about a month old.  I didn't take any pictures of her or of the family, but I did take a picture of my handsome husband carving the turkey on Thanksgiving at his parents' house! 

Ok, now onto Christmas!!  I have a list of 26 Christmas movies I want to see this year!!  I was going to do 25, but then I just had to add one more!!  Here's my Bucket List first: 

Here's my list of 26 Christmas movies: 

1. Elf
2. Mickey’s Christmas Carol
3. Muppet’s Christmas Carol
4. Frosty the Snowman
5. Rudolph
6. Santa Clause is Coming to Town
7. Year Without a Santa Clause
8. Christmas Vacation
9. Love Actually
10. The Grinch (old cartoon)
11. The Grinch (Jim Carrey)
12. The Grinch (new one - never seen it!)
13. Home Alone
14. Home Alone 2
15. Die Hard
16. Charlie Brown Christmas
17. White Christmas
18. Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version OF COURSE)
19. It’s a Wonderful Life
20. Prep & Landing 
21. Scrooged
22. A Christmas Story
23. Fred Claus
24. The Night Before
25. The Nightmare Before Christmas
26. It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947).  My Uncle Jim just told me about this one, and it sounds great!  I want to find it and watch it.  

And just for fun, here's a cute picture of Guinness from a few days ago: