Thanksgiving bump!

I was just reminded of our horrible Thanksgiving meal last year in Ghana. I worked all day cooking food that we brought from the US and trying to make things as nice as possible. Brandon and Mike actually killed and cut up a local Turkey and we invited all our friends over. People were putting gravy on top of chocolate cake, complaining that the men weren't fed first, and ordering me around to get them glasses of water. I think it was summed up best when one neighbor said when I asked him why he wasn't eating anything but the turkey meat, "If I eat your food I will throw up in my mouth."

Needless to say, this year was much better! We had the most beautiful Thanksgiving meal. A bunch of friends got together at Ben and Sus' place and it was decorated so cute and the food was amazing.


This is Mike's and my contribution: a green salad, sweet sweet potatoes, and savory sweet potatoes. It was GOOD!

Yes, that is homemade cranberry sauce (the best I've ever tasted), garlic cream cheese mashed red potatoes, and Homemade artisan bread. Amazing.


Here's the cute table with turkey shaped chocolates all the way from Burdicks in Harvard square that we all love! AND not to mention that for my B-day Sus totally remembered my favorite wedding present-- one of those silly glass cake holders that can also be a punch bowl-- and she remembered how sad I was to get rid of it to go to Africa even though I don't really bake or display cakes or use punch bowls, and she got me one! Only it also can be used for chips and dip so its amazing!


This is the cute maternity outfit that my mom got me for my b-day. The first picture is me normal and the second one is emphasizing the bump a little. I think I kept flashing people with my new boobs all night, so I'm sorry about that....