Hi, Everyone - Here are just a few highlights from the best Thanksgiving ever!! All I can say is our familia is awesome!!
- Jan getting the credit for the "awesome" crab dip.
- Adam, Josh and Daniel thinking the crab dip was a new item to the menu. (It's been around for at least 10 years.)
- Irma & Tony's tardiness due to "making the cake".
- Football game with the new stars of the family, Jake & Andrew.
- For some reason the traditional dishes brought by everyone tasted really, really good this year. (Extra dashes of love added.)
- "Thankful For" sharing time.
- Lexi's tears.
- Sandra and her video camera.
- Lexi's recipe for the delicious, moist turkey.
- Teeny's bangs.
- Maya feasting in the garbage bag.
- The "Mafia" newbies (Barb, Jan and Sharla). (Shar - are you sure you never played before?)
- Antoinette's "boob" obsession...still.
- Indiana Mike's "45".
- "31"
- Mo-nee-kah.
- Lil Tony spraining the same ankle twice during the football game.
- JoJo's senior stories. ;)
- Jake, Andrew & Company (Sophia, Ariel, Bowen, Paulie) playing "football-dodge ball" in the basement.
- The women finally winning a game against the men.
- Grandpa being proud, happy and nostalgic about the family get-together -- in his own special way.)
- The last guest(s) leaving at 1200 midnight -- and Al didn't even flicker the lights!!
- 30 adults, 8 kids and 2 dogs -- need I say more.
I can't wait until next year!! Love you all!!!!!
11 comments:
Alexis' additions. :)
1. Barb getting a 31 on the first hand.
2. Irma not giving up on setting up one of her sons with one of Antoinette's daughters.
3. Adam and Lee Lee leaving... like 12 times.
4. Marty teasing Lex... and Barb yelling at him.
5. Eek not able to play football because he mysteriously pulled his groin.
6. Rich. Was that his name?
7. Adam almost clotheslining Jake.
8. Lee Lee and Lex crying when Adam fell.
9. Maya peeing in the green room. Again.
10. Shar's headband.
11. Lex and Eek's matching shirts.
12. Who's got 8? Works every time during 31.
13. Nah nah nah nah, nah nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goooodbyyyye!
14. Just enough ice.
15. Irma not getting any leftover carrot cake.
16. No salad this year.
17. The double-crust jello.
18. Bowen being grateful for his mouthguard.
19. Josh being grateful for Adam.
20. Lex explaining why she was crying. Was that necessary?
21. Grandpa's goodbye kisses.
22. The "Pop around the corner" sign.
23. During Mafia, Jan killing Josh during the 1st round he was playing after he was the narrator.
24. Al, "I'm just a lowly villager."
25. Lee Lee's big hoop earrings that she wore during the football game.
26. Laura telling Lex that she didn't want her to play football because Lex's hair looked nice.
27. Sandra making Lex feel lazy when Sandra said she wants to go to law school.
28. Zack.
29. Lefty thinking Maya is a squirrel.
30. "Come, Al told us par-um-pum-pum-pum. Barb might not let us in par-um-pum-pum-pum."
31. Thanksgiving at Laura's...priceless.
Love you all!
Adding to the list:
Alexis putting her mug on Barb's phone under the Baby Dumpling title.
Kentucky- Fried Chicken - Colonel Sanders - that's how the gals win their points in the Trivial game
The weight challenge.
Christina's faux glasses.
1. Lex and Shar making Zack take his hat off.
2. Eek asking, "Where's Jeff, Char?"
3. Jane acting feeble when she was the mafia.
4. Shar asking JoJo about crafts and JoJo replying that once you get a good parking space in front of the senior home you probably shouldn't go anywhere. (??)
5. Mateo making us listen to "Bounce" over and over.
1. Jan arriving before Irma (see #3 on Poopie's list).
2. Lefty stressed because we were sitting on all of his favorite spots.
3. Ant calling JoJo's friends her posse and saying get off the road if you see her van coming down the street.
4. Jan hiding her carrot cake to go so well, she forgot it.
5. The word "facade" being used over and over by Barb in the mafia game describing a certain couple's marriage...until Josh finally said "we get it".
85. Marty asking Shar if there were onions in the potato salad.
86. Jane's still trying to figure out how she could have killed off Al even though she knew Barb was the mafia.
87. Paulie waking from his nap on occasion to make rude comments during "thankful for" session.
And the beat goes on!!!
134. Mikey "enjoying" Sandra's crab salad with Ritz crackers.
Barb being muy feeble in the Mafia game.
Mikey always drinking milk with his dessert.
137. Mateo getting home and telling Shar that he's hungry.
138. Lex sitting down woth her plate of food and telling Tony, "Man, that's a lot of carbs."
Brab's cute shoes.
When Barb told Mateo and Andrew that the red stuff in the bowl was cranberry sauce, they both said "Eeew!"
141. Mateo and Ariel making alot of noise during "the BLEESSSIINNG."
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