Give Thanks!

I'm way behind and I just started!  I thought I'd at least be able to stay up on my blog since it is new.  I shouldn't have to play catch-up with it like I do with scrapbooking the last 6 years of my kids' pictures.  It'll happen.... some day.  

We had a fun Thanksgiving in DC with Gary's family.   They did a progressive thing and we had appetizers at his mom's; dinner at our sis-in-law's; and dessert at another's house.  Everything was delicious!  Everything was gorgeous:  gorgeous place settings,  heavenly mashed potatoes that I've since tried to replicate (with disappointing results... even after I got the recipe!) and pumpkin pies of every variety.  There was some jockeying for a piece of the lone pecan pie.  I managed to wrestle my way in for  a few snitches and it was totally worth it.  

Speaking of wrestling, Gary entertained the troops on the trampoline outside for hours.  It was all fun and games until Sam threw his cousin into a metal fence.  Okay, that's just how his mother perceives it.  Even the victim said they were wrestling and Sam ended it when his cousin accidentally went flying off and hit his head on a wrought iron fence.  Good times.  Nothing gives me a reason to be thankful more than the fear of permanent brain damage that is averted!  I've never felt a bigger egg on a head (which all the cousins thought was cool).  Hmmm... time for us to make our exit!  

 A good time was had.... by most.