Help Stephanie put on her first Thanksgiving spread. Share your ideas for menu items, decorating, entertaining, whatever. You can even share your failures - because everyone who has ever cooked a Thanksgiving dinner knows that something is going to go wrong!

Yummy!

Party Potatoes

Ingredients:
1 (5 lb) bag white potatoes, peeled and boiled
1 (8 oz) package cream cheese, softened
1/2 cup butter, melted
1 (8 0z) carton sour cream
Onion powder, to taste
Salt and pepper to taste

Directions:
-Drain potatoes.
-Mash with cream cheese, butter, sour cream, onion powder, salt and pepper.

Also,

Don't bake the Turkey without checking the cavity and the neck area for packaged items and other "goodies".

If you need Ideas for the table I’ve got tons of them. For example, take a wine glass turn it up-side down and put a candle on the top of it. You can put something in the glass like a pilgrim figurine if you wish that makes it very pretty and the candles aren’t too high.

Since you're having a buffet, you can wrap your silverware in festive paper napkins then create this easy napkin ring:

Cut 1 to 1-1/2 inch strips of contruction paper.
Wrap utensils in napkin then wrap strip of construction paper around and hot glue closed. Take a real or fake autumn leave and glue on to cover where the paper ring is joined.

I did this when we had the big family dinner at our house in 1999 - looked cute stacked in a basket.