spanksgiving!

so thanksgiving was last week! it was a blast as usual.

when i was little and actually up until about 4 years ago we spent every thanksgiving with one other family. we weren't related but since my family didn't have any other relatives in state and practically their whole family lived in colorado, we would spend it with them. it was fun, but i always felt like the odd man out - they were are very close and were really each other's family. now due to some interesting circumstances, we don't do holidays with them anymore.

but now, since we still do not have any family besides our imediate family here in the big CO, we get several families together who also don't have blood-family close by. we have essentially become our own NEW family! I love it so much! we had fifteen people around two tables this year - and since we're all pretty much grown up except for my little girl ( who napped during dinner :) ) there was a mature adult table and just a plain old adult table - NO KID TABLE! we added a new adult face this year and by next year there will be one more little face to sit with eisley at the "kiddie table"! we went around the table and popped open these cheezy party poppers that each had a paper crown, joke or riddle, and a small worthless prize inside, and said something we were thankful for that started with the first letter of our first name. the mature adult table kept true to it's title and said very mature things: charlie - christ, linda - love, mark - my wife (he cheated i think), Joan - jesus.....the plain old adult table should have been renamed the imature adult table because: shane - sex...no scratch that...special ed kids (yes that is my husband :) ), mark jr. - moobs ( man boobs ), Rueben - red heads....see it was fun! we then played some silly videos made at jibjab.com HILARIOUS! and played guesstures - again hilarious! anyways, i had/have a lot to be thankful for and i love my family and adopted family sooooo much!

here's just one of the funny videos i made: