It was an awesome time and fun to hang out in Boise.
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Monday, November 28, 2011{The Great Big Thanksgiving Post}
It's funny how it happens. The whole bunch descended upon the house at the beginning of the week and yesterday afternoon they all flew the coop about the same time.
We had such a fun week and it went by so fast - it always does.
It was a treat to have Brittany and Rachel here with us. Jax had gone down to Mexico with his dad and a friend to take much needed items to the needy there, and because Brit is pregnant and it is a long trip her Dr. preferred she not go. Rachel's family was just a little too far away so we got to enjoy our 3rd daughter for this holiday.
And Linnette and Jason joined us which is always fun. We appreciate them spending time with us!
We did what families do - We hung out alot.
Katie made yams for the first time to take to her in-laws house for Thanksgiving. I helped her out a little bit. Ohhhhhh we love those yams!
Planking???
Is Dad under there somewhere?
Mom and Lee had Thanksgiving at their house this year. They did a wonderful job. The food was delish and we all had a good time.
Taylor - Rachel - Pretty Table - Yams!
After dinner we let the food settle by napping, cleaning up, watching football games and talking.
Grandma (Mom) and her babies.
When we felt like we could move again we played "Minute To Win It" - Talk about a crazy fun time! If you have never played or heard of it, it is a game where you have to complete a challenge in under a minute. Then you win a prize.
I had prizes for everyone and then we played the White Elephant game with them after - it was fun.
The paper bag challenge. Pick up a bag with your mouth and take it to the couch without using your hands or letting your knees touch the ground. The bags got shorter and shorter.
The TP challenge. Brittany had the roll of TP on a pencil (it was a double roll too!) and Ryan had to spin and wrap himself up in the entire roll of TP in a minute, without tearing it. He did it!
The Rubberband gun challenge. Lee had to make a rubber band gun with his fingers and shoot the rubber bands at playing cards that were sticking straight up in the rug. He had to shoot all 3 down in a minute. He did it! This was a hard one!!
Taylor and Trent went head to head in the Kleenex challenge. They had to pull all the Kleenex out of their boxes 1 by 1 in a minute. Taylor won. Harder than it looks.
Linnette and I raced in the cracker challenge. We had to put a cracker on our forehead and without using our hands wiggle it with our faces down to our mouths and eat it. It fell off my face 3 times before I finally got it in my mouth and won Linnette!! We laughed so hard as you can see and everyone was laughing at us because you make some pretty funny faces when you are trying to wiggle something down your face.
Kurke made this challenge look easy. He had to stack 4 lipstick cases using chopsticks. Way to go!
The golf ball challenge. Seriously Seriously HARD! I could not even believe that Brittany finally achieved this. She stacked 3 golf balls on top of each other. Not easy for sure. It definately takes patience and a steady arm.
We had 9 challenges all together but this one was another super tough one. Holding a popsicle stick in your mouth and stacking 6 dice on top of each other without them falling. You could only use one hand to stack the dice and you had to do it in a minute. Rachel and Jason did it after a few tries. Hard one! This game is a ton of laughs and there are sooooo many challenges you can think up and do.
In between playing non stop games of Settler's of Catan, eating ourselves silly and watching movies on t.v. we went to a movie in the Theater and saw Hugo. It was really really good. We had all ages in our group: parents, young adults, teens and kids, and we ALL liked it. Great story!
Rachel is so cute!
(And, why yes, the other movie goers around me, loved me for taking a flash picture in the dark theater).
See Brittany's cute little baby bump.
Here is another picture - 17 1/2 weeks.
Our last night together - Sob - The week just went by way too fast - Linnette took us all out to dinner at Tucano's where we over extended our bellies yet again...Sooooo good!! Thanks Linnette we really enjoyed it!
We were cracking up because we all ate and ate and ate (it is never ending food if you want) and all the rest of us were done and Brittany kept eating and eating and eating - that baby must have been hungry!
To finish off the visit Jason lost his 2nd tooth. He actually let Katie help him wiggle it loose and help pull it out. Brave little dude! He is such a handsome little guy and was pretty happy to have his tooth come out.
