Thankful #22 Thanksgiving

Most of my family was able to gather at my parent's home for Thanksgiving. It was so nice to be with my family, joke the way we do, and eat the food I grew up eating. Plus a few good pie recipes I added. 

Here are several of grand-kids watching those delicious pies bake. My family LOVES pie. And the best part of Thanksgiving is the pie that we have for the several days after for breakfast. And lunch. And supper. Oh, and for snacks. I only made 6. Dorias brought 2. I think my mom made 12. 

The stickers were terrible this year. I remember a few years that the stickers were terrible growing up. I remember going to college and some of my cousins took their shoes off and were running around in the backyard playing crochet and I thought they were crazy. Why would you EVER take your shoes off and walk around in the grass? The grass is different in the country  Well, Eric was outside and fell and this is what happened. Those stickers aren't like getting cactus needles in your hands. These things have a hook on the end and they hurt worse to come out then they do to go in.  

Here is my dad helping Eric get them out. The next day Eric's hands had little red dots all over them where the stickers had been. And then the next day they were bruised. Stickers are bad!

Mark and Dorias brought their 4-wheelers. Camie had so much fun on them.

The littler kids, like Spencer, loved the trampoline. 

 I grew up with waffle blocks. We played with these all the time. Trapping cats, building, etc. The grand-kids love playing with them almost as much as I liked them as a kid. And then my brother, Rob, went and bought more off ebay and added to my parent's collection. So much fun. They made a tower to see if they could touch the ceiling. Good thing we still speak the same language (ha ha, that was supposed to be funny).

Here we are sitting around playing Chinese Checkers. Spencer was learning how to play. I have always liked that game. Almost as much as I like Uno.

And the food. I love good food. And especially food that I grew up eating. I didn't grow up eating vegetables, that was an addition by several of the sister-in-laws. Our definition of fruit and vegetables was the jello fruit salad and the cranberry fruit salad that has more sugar in it than fruit. I have learned to like vegetables and fruit in my old age. But it did put a smile on my face as I sat down to Thanksgiving meal and saw just how few vegetables there were. Just like old times.

Saturday after Thanksgiving we had homemade chimichangas fried by my brother, Dan. Mmmmmm! I am just not used to fried foods. My stomach hurt all night!

After the chimichangas, we went up to the church to play kickball. Because you can't play kickball in my parent's yard with all the stickers. That would be brutal. Everyone would leave wounded and crying!

I have this really cool app on my phone that I can see where my friends are. I pretty much have all my siblings on it. You can't follow anyone without their permission. It was pretty cool to pull up the app while at my parent's house and see so many of us there. Bonnie and Rob were missing. Rob's family was able to be there. And Bonnie's baby is too new to come. 

I really do love getting together with my family. They are fun and I have revertago (where I revert back to a child) and can just laugh and joke. I even kicked my younger, bigger brother in the behind as I was walking by. i ran from him and went back to what I was doing before. A few minutes later he came and attacked me from behind, carried me through the house into the family room, pinned me down, and began to tickle me. I absolutely hate to be tickled, so he showed mercy and stopped.

We had fun. It was great to get together and be with those whom I am truly thankful for.