 Good morning guys, welcome to the Thanksgiving vlog and I'm so excited because this is my five year anniversary on YouTube which is insane. I will link down all of the other Thanksgiving videos but it was Thanksgiving of 2015 when I was like, I'm going to do YouTube and I'm going to just give it my everything and I've done that ever since. So happy YouTube anniversary to me today. The Thanksgiving's like crazy because it's 2020 and my family's not coming over so that's really, really sad. I don't know, it's just not the same because normally we all get together and then we eat obviously, we talk, we drink, we laugh and everything and we watch, we normally don't watch the parade together. It's normally like kind of just like my Aunt Wendy sometimes she comes and then we normally watch the Polar Express. So I don't know what we're going to be doing today. I will however show you the food. I just wanted to kind of intro the video and say happy Thanksgiving to you guys. I am so thankful for each and every one of you that just gives me the time of day to allow me to do what I love to do and what I set out again in 2015 to do. I'm so thankful for you. I'm so thankful that the YouTube algorithm picked up a video. I mean that video did not have to do as well as it did. You guys didn't have to click on it. I mean a lot of you guys are still here watching me. So I just want to say thank you so much for that. It really means a lot to me. My dreams are actually coming true, which is like kind of cool. And honestly I'm not trying hard. I mean I'm working really hard but like I'm not trying like so hard. Like I'm not only concentrating on one thing because I have other things going on in my life like my other job and everything. So I am working extremely hard but I'm trying not to just make YouTube my one and only in my life just because I feel like we all need to have balance. But anyway I'm just going off on a time rant. Let's go see the food and stuff. Okay we got the turkey thawing out. We have our little containers over here. This is what Valerie uses to like bake it and stuff. Valerie's got all the bread ready for the dressing. I don't really like dressing but it's fine. We have our green beans all ready to go and these are, oh she did get new rolls. That's fun. We are watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. My cousin was actually in this a few years ago so it's really cool. All right so Valerie. I am cutting the onion for the dressing because I like to use fresh onions for that. And if you look over on the stove you will see chicken broth. Here's the chicken broth. And there's more chicken broth that I need but better to have too much than not enough. So now I'm going to rinse this off. I keep the bottom of the onion on because I learned that something I've learned years ago is that it won't make you cry if you keep the bottom on. Oh wow, oh that's interesting. Last minute is when I cut the bottom off. So I make slits like this. You can get machines to do this, little handheld things but I've always liked to do it by hand. So after you have scored it both ways then when you cut it, you'll see you get diced onion. Interesting, huh? Sherry tried to teach me how to do a tomato like that. I failed. Cooking's just not your thing, isn't it? No, it's because the tomato's consistency. It's all like mush. This is more sturdy. It's more, it has more. It's much easier to do this. Yeah, than to do it all with a tomato. Okay, so what I'm doing is I'm putting bread in the bowl. I'm making dressings, what I'm doing. So I'm putting bread in the bowl and I'm taking this and I'm going to get, I'm gonna get a bigger thing. This is gonna take me forever. Then you're gonna put this in here. You gotta put some onions in and then you gotta put some sage in because what this is is sage dressing. This is rubbed sage. Ooh, Valerie looking good. This is what the dressing looks like when it's raw before it's cooked. Very cool, very cool. We have put the dressing into the body cavity of the turkey because that's what Sherry likes. However, I don't eat that because just don't eat that. And then I have put the legs back up where they need to be under that piece of skin that is provided. And then I am brushing it with a butter and garlic mixture. Oh yeah, because you periodically cut, take it out and baste it. I don't take it out, but I- You pull it out. Like you pull, yeah. You're smelling the- The garlic. The garlic and the butter. We'll go ahead and put this in now. Look how gorgeous, look how big that is. It's actually a small one, 15 pounds. Oh, okay. The smallest ones I've ever had. Well, yeah, cause we cannot eat a whole turkey. So there's just the three of us. Yeah, exactly. Those are the giblets. See, that's what it took out of the turkey body. Ew. I know. I feel the same way about that too. That's what you get when you eat a dead animal. Not trying to be morose on the video. There we go. And I've already measured so I know my dressing can go there and my rolls can go there. Very meticulous found. Correct. Showing us basting the turkey? Yes. Showing herself, not us. I don't know why I said that. But there's something wrong with the turkey base. No, it's all right now. Oh, it's all right now, all right. Thanksgiving outfit, Thanksgiving outfit. Not really, I was actually gonna change before I was videoed for Thanksgiving, but that's okay. This is why working around until we have actual Thanksgiving celebration outfit. Sure, you're changing just to eat. This is my outfit. I was going, well, I might. If I do, I'd have to iron a shirt. Yeah, I mean, I'm probably just gonna change my top. I'm still in the show on this. I'm so glad I'm fixing my hair. Yeah, but I was just gonna fix her hair. Sherry, you're wrapping gifts? Yeah. She's wrapping her own gifts. I'm wrapping my own gifts right now. Aw, I'm sorry. Okay guys, we're watching the dog show. I love the dog show. It's one of my favorites. Oh my gosh, Bastet Hound, all the way. I really mainly watch the dog show for the corgi because I love corgis. I'm obsessed with corgis. And then I also need to see the Bastet Hound, the Beagle. I love the Dachshund, so hopefully I'll get a clip of one of the dogs I want to see. Oh my gosh, the Beagle. Oh, the Bastet. Oh, the Dachshund. Okay, I'm glad I got to see a couple of them. Can't wait to see the corgi. Little Dachshund on the stage right now. So cute. We are finally in the herding category. Oh yay, here we go. The Pembroke Welsh Corgi. Yes, what a beautiful miss. The sherry is wrapping the last presents. How's it going, sherry? The Cardigan Welsh Corgi, I love them. They are very cute. That's so cute. This is, well, it's kind of tough to believe that anything that is long and so low set that they would be able to survive that. Aw, they didn't show the other corgi. All right, so I'm really mad that they did not show the Pembroke Welsh Corgi. Very sad about that. But Valar wants to show you guys the turkey. All right, here we go. Oh, it is starting to get brown. You know, I had to put four water because it still has got a couple more hours to cook. Right. See how we basted? And there's the, right next to it is the dressing. Okay, so we have this table set up here with all of our food because this table over here, I won't fit everything, obviously. And the dining room table is taken up by sherry's stuff. Valar, do you want to explain the display here? Yes, we have Alex's green beans. Yes. We have the turkey, the cranberry sauce, homemade cranberry sauce, sherry's black olives, gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, corn, a little bit of dressing that came out of the turkey. Okay. And sherry's, all right. Oh, and forky. Bones. Rolls. Bones. Oh my goodness, and forky the best of all, so. Okay, sherry has her plate all full. I ate one thing at a time, so I literally just have this leg, but I'm going to go get stuff when I'm done with the leg. You know what I mean? All right. Valarie, look at your plate. Yep. I have successfully stayed in the PJs all day and I'm loving every minute. Normally I kind of dress up. I mean, not really. I just put on like an outfit. I was going to change my shirt, but I'm like, you know what? It's 2020. I'm just going to be comfortable. The same with sherry. Yep. We have some pumpkin pie. Sherry has some pecan pie over there with some whipped cream on it. And it's starting to melt because the pecan pie is warm. Yeah, mine's cold. And my coffee. And her coffee in the cute little, I have a little Christmas mug. Christmas mug there. Anyone else drinking with her? Wouldn't be family Thanksgiving if we didn't have a little Zoom party with the family. Oh, okay. Anyway, there's Valerie over there. And then... Oh, there's Bieber. Oh, now I see everybody. And my other uncle just joined. So family bonding time during 2015. 2015, oh my gosh, 2020. Yeah, we'll take a picture. Oh gosh. All right, so we're about to end the vlog, Valerie. Name something you're thankful for. I am thankful for having such a good time today with my family and having Thanksgiving dinner and having a chance to be on Zoom tonight. Sherry. I'm able to see family tonight on Zoom, even though we could not all be together, but we are looking forward to doing it next year. Now, what are you thankful for, Alex? I am thankful for... Yes, so I hear them. That would be so bad to put that in there. I am thankful. You've got to keep that in. I will, I will. I'm thankful for my health and family and food. Food. Yeah, Valerie. Leave a comment down below telling me what you're thankful for. That's the question of the day. Don't forget to give this video a thumbs up. Don't forget to subscribe and I'll see you guys in my next video. Bye. Bye. Bye. Happy Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving.