The Journey of our Sweet Baby Nagy: Home with Ryan for Christmas

Although I had such a wonderful trip to London and Paris, I missed Ryan so much! I got back to Indianapolis on December 23rd - just in time for Christmas! I was so lucky that my flights didn't get cancelled as majority of the flights at O'Hare were cancelled that night. I made it home though - unfortunately Ryan was on call at the hospital that night - so I didn't see him until the next morning. He had 2 beautiful poinsettia plants and a card waiting for me when I got home which made my night after a long day or travelling! I was greeted by my sweet little doggies who I was so excited to see as well - they missed their mom! It seems Ryan missed me a lot too - he missed his dinners at night and a fridge full of his favorite goodies :)

Luckily Ryan came home the morning of the 24th and didn't have to go in until the 26th - we we were able to spend Christmas together! It was just the 2 of us, so it was quiet, but we had a wonderful time. We are both used to big Christmas celebrations with our families - so it was definitely different. We realized this was probably the last Christmas we will ever have together alone again - so really enjoyed the peace and quiet - and had a ton of fun!

On the 24th, we went shopping for our Christmas Eve dinner and our Christmas Day dinner! We went to the butcher to get a Turkey and they only had a 14-16 lb turkey left - so we bought it! After all, what is Christmas without a Turkey - and cooking this turkey together on Christmas day was the funniest thing ever - as neither of us had cooked a turkey on our own before! So first step is to rinse the turkey and take the organs out (I refused to do this - being vegetarian the last 12 years of my life, and only now starting to eat white meat, it seemed too sudden to de-organ a turkey!) So after searching for a few minutes, Ryan declared that there were no organs in this turkey, that we were all set. This seemed a little odd to me as I always remember there being organs in ever other turkey I have seen cooked. So we called Mom Nagy to see what the deal was - she assured us that there WAS organs in the turkey and we needed to remove the. We had her on speaker phone and spent almost 15 minutes looking for the organs - Ryan refused to believe there were any in there (this was a special turkey)

So he looked...(yes those are yellow rubber gloves he is wearing!)

and he looked...

and he looked

and finally after rinsing the turkey with water multiple times, we were able to look into the neck and found the sack with the organs! Success!!

We were dying laughing by the end of it (as were the Nagy's on speaker phone and Ryan's sister Elizabeth who was there too...). Anyway, after flavoring and cooking the turkey, it ended up tasting wonderful (although it was WAY too much for us to eat!) The dog's received some special Christmas turkey too and were very happy with themselves! We ended up having a really nice Christmas dinner together. Ryan's brother Mike stopped by that evening on his way to work (he works at the Indianapolis Sheriff Department and was on duty that night...) for some Christmas dinner as well.