Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes/ Our week

I thought that since it's November which is the best month EVER (mine and Emma's birthday's and Thanksgiving) I would post different dishes you can make for your Thanksgiving dinner. This weeks recipe comes from Martha Stewart. Last Thanksgiving we celebrated with our friends Willie and Sally. It was really nice of them to invite us over even though Willie's family was over too. Anyway, Sally made these sweet potatoes and I became addicted.

• 14 (each about 8 ounces) sweet potatoes
• 1/2 cup sour cream
• 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, plus 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into 3/4-inch-thick slices
• 1 3/4 cups packed light-brown sugar
• 4 teaspoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg
• Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
• 2/3 cup pecans, toasted, coarsely chopped
• 40 large marshmallows, halved crosswise

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Prick sweet potatoes with a fork. Bake until soft, about 50 minutes. Let cool slightly on a rack.
2. Cut a lengthwise slit in potatoes almost all the way through, leaving about 1 inch at each end intact. Scoop out flesh, leaving a 1/2-inch border on skins. Put flesh in a medium nonreactive bowl, then transfer half to a food processor. Process until smooth; return to bowl. Stir in sour cream, 6 tablespoons softened butter, 1 cup brown sugar, lemon juice, and nutmeg. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees. Transfer sweet potato mixture in batches to a pastry bag fitted with a very large round tip. Pipe mixture into 12 of the potato shells, dividing evenly; discard remaining 2 shells. Filled shells can be refrigerated in an airtight container up to 1 day. Just before serving, top with remaining 3/4 cup brown sugar, the sliced butter, and pecans; arrange marshmallows on top. Bake on a rimmed baking sheet until hot and marshmallows are golden brown, 7 to 10 minutes.

In other news, I'm going in next Tuesday for another checkup. This one I will be 13 weeks and will have an ultrasound. I'm excited to see my little baby and hope that it will give me a boost of confidence and excitement. In January hopefully they will be able to tell us what we are having. I really thought that with our next baby that I wouldn't find out but now I'm sitting on the fence. Last time we got a false alarm so I don't know if I trust the machines or not.

Emma's birthday party is on Saturday (though he birthday isn't until next Saturday). I've gotten all the decorations and have a final decision on the birthday cake. I'm going to do the one that no one voted for because it's easiest and I'm feeling lazy this week. For the cake, all I will have to do is ice is white, smoth it out, outline the characters of Ernie, Elmo and Cookie monster (I believe) and then just pipe stars. I'll save the extravagant cakes for when Emma is older and can appreciate my work a little more.
Last Year's Birthday Cake