Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Atkinson Law Office, PLLC
Craig started his own Boise Criminal Defense Law firm. He has been involved in every aspect, start to finish, of running an office for the last 2 years so feels very confident in his ability to fly solo. Here are a few links to his website and facebook page if you want to check them out.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Turducken
BEEF is pretty much the only thing NOT for dinner :)
Craig has been drooling over this turducken thing for about a year now and finally decided to try it this christmas dinner. Turducken is a Turkey that is deboned and stuffed with a deboned duck and deboned chicken. Craig's aunt Lorreta was very sad she couldn't be with us to experience the turducken adventure and begged me to document the whole thing... So here you go :)
DECEMBER 24th
5:45 PM - Derek and Craig started preparing stuffing #1. Chopped the peppers and onions
6:00 - Seasoned with spices
6:10 - Combined Peper mixture w/ corn bread stuffing
(Stuffing #1)
6:15 - Cut up sausage for second Stuffing
6:45 - Mixed Second Stuffing
(Stuffing #2)
7:15 - Deboned the Duck
(derek had to take over deboning the duck due to injury... he sliced his finger)
***quick break for the christmas eve celebration***
9:30 - Deboned the Turkey
(washing the turkey)
DECEMBER 25th
7:00 AM - Layered the meats and stuffing and tied everything together
8:00 AM - Turducken in the oven at 225 degrees UNCOVERED
12:00 PM - Spread top with olive oil and COVERED with foil
3:30 PM - Increased oven temperature to 300 degrees (turkey temp was only 140 degrees)
4:30 - still not ready
5:30 - still not ready
6:30 - Still not ready
7:30 - Not quite ready but internal temp has reached a safe 170 degrees so we are EATING IT!!!!
Christmas Morning
It was rough getting the 3 kids to bed the night before because they were all on the floor in the living room together. But once they were asleep I quickly got all the gifts out of the car and put them under Connie's tree. I stuffed and hung the kids stockings as well. They were both very excited when they woke up. We have never played into the Santa being real story with the kids but this year for some reason Soren insists he is real...so I am trying not to discourage him...(he says his preschool teacher wouldn't lie to him, so Santa must be real)
After presents we had luscious scones with strawberries and whip cream... YUM!!!!
(this is a present I got from Kaydence, she made it at school)
FINALLY, I get silly bands!!!
Christmas EVE
We had the Atkinson Family Christmas Celebration the thursday before christmas but spent christmas eve/morning as well with Connie and Larry. It was a nice small quiet weekend. Connie got pj's for each of the kids, and I didn't want to give them Pj's again for there eve gift, so I decided on pillow pets. Lindsey was giving one to Rylie for christmas so she let Rylie open her pillow pet on christmas eve as well not to be left out. They were a HIT! But before the kids opened the gift, we downloaded a Christmas story on Connie's new ipad and had her read them "The Night Before Christmas". Rylie liked to sneak her finger up and change the page before grandma was done...little stinker :)
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