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Quotes I Live By

“There are cycles of good and bad times, ups and downs, periods of joy and sadness, and times of plenty as well as scarcity. When our lives turn in an unanticipated and undesirable direction, sometimes we experience stress and anxiety. One of the challenges of this mortal experience is to not allow the stresses and strains of life to get the better of us—to endure the varied seasons of life while remaining positive, even optimistic. Perhaps when difficulties and challenges strike, we should have these hopeful words of Robert Browning etched in our minds: 'The best is yet to be'"--L. Tom Perry

"It isn't as bad as you sometimes think it is. It all works out. Don't worry. I say that to myself every morning. It will all work out. If you do your best, it will all work out. Put your trust in God, and move forward with faith and confidence in the future. The Lord will not forsake us. He will not forsake us . . . If we will put our trust in Him, if we will pray to Him, if we live worthy of His blessings, He will hear our prayers."
--President Gordon B. Hinckley

"God the Eternal Father did not give [the] first great commandment because He needs us to love Him. His power and glory are not diminished should we disregard, deny or even defile His name. His influence and dominion extend through time and space independent of our acceptance, approval or admiration. . . No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! . . . For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who are--and who we will become." --President Uchtdorf

Monday, November 30, 2009

Two Sundays ago, Stephanie and I organized an awesome Pre-Thanksgiving dinner for some of our friends. Unlike most of the other social events we have tried to organize in the past, this one was actually quite successful. Food was pretty dang good, and everyone we invited came! Anyways, the original plan was to get some Rotisserie chickens from Smith's. Well, we went there around 8 o'clock the Saturday before, and we were disappointed (actually, annoyed and ticked off) to find that all the Rotisserie chicken's were very small and scrawny, despite the sign that said something of the effect of "HUGE chickens". They were not. Anyways, in desperation to decide what we could make to feed around 20 people, we scrambled throughout the store. As we headed towards the meat section, I spotted a huge thing of Turkeys. And that's when the adventure began. We decided to buy a turkey. Because they were on sale. None of us had ever made a turkey, but how hard could it be right?

Heh. Wrong.

The next day, Steph and I woke up bright and early (aka 11:30), and prepped the Turkey. We felt it necessary to video tape this moment, because really, making your first turkey is a BIG deal (don't try and pretend it's not). Well, it was quite the interesting experience. The video turned out to be about 30 minutes long, but Stephanie cut it down and made it 19 minutes, and edited it a bit. So, here blogging world, is the saga of the Turkey of SHLOBB. Enjoy. I swear, it's worth it to watch all 19 minutes :) I couldn't figure out how to post it from my facebook as an actual link on here, so hopefully this like will work

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1145308474936&ref=mf

(Yes, you will notice I left towards the end. I'm a bad person. I decided I would rather do my hair for the day instead of help her solve the problem that came up. It just was stressing me out)

And just for history's sake, here are some pictures from the making of the Turkey, and the actual party!

Giblets. I found out that night that people actually eat those. Let's take a vote. Nasty?