Gobble This

OKAY THEN. So this is my Thanksgiving blog finally, I forgot my new fancy camera on an important OUTING so I had to wait until I had a chance to get my SISTER'S camera card so I would have the TOOLS necessary to produce a THOROUGH and SATISFACTORY entry. There are more pictures here than you have ever seen before, and I suspect I will never put this many on at the the same time again.
My parents and my brother and his family drove many miles to join us for the holiday. We had a smurfy time. Below is a picture of the men folk slaving away at a card game, while the ladies enjoy some free time cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids. I'M KIDDING. The ladies played too, except me. The family card game, passed down for generations, is complicated and does not interest me, therefore I refuse to learn it. Ueker, Youker, U-KER- I don't know how to spell it. I told my husband he'll have to teach it to the girls so the tradition lives on. They also played poker. I personally prefer board games, I actively participated in those. Scattergories and Taboo- that's what I'm talkin' about!
I had a better picture than this but my brother is making an obscene finger gesture, so I deemed it inappropriate.

Here we have all of the pint-sized grandchildren- and my sister. I love how my niece is doing the dead weight thing off of my sister's lap.

The kids always become best friends immediately, even though they only see each other like once a year.

My nieces brought their DSS thingies, the likes of which my kids have never seen. They spent hours bent over them mesmerized....
Have you ever seen "The Grudge"? Creepy....

I love how Reese sneakily sidestepped into this picture...

It reminded me of this picture....

....although Cranky the Sour Patch Kid there is considerably LESS cute than Reese.

We went to a place called Leapin' Lizards on Friday to celebrate my nieces' birthdays. It's kind of like Chuck E Cheese only with lots of GIANT blow up jumpy things.
I whooped my sister at air hockey TWICE. OH YEAH! WOO HOO! I'M NUMBER ONE! I'M NUMBER ONE! I'm a sore winner.

These pictures are awesome. Kung Fu Tatum...
There was one slide in particular that none of us could resist, even mom.....
I got some pretty wicked burns on my elbows from that one.

The whole weekend was swell, and we wouldn't have changed a thing, even though we were pretty worn out by the end of it...


HOPE YOU AND YOURS HAD A TURKIFIC DAY.