Turkey Trots!

Thanksgiving was just NUTS! We had so much fun with my family, and are grateful that everyone made the drive. We started off with some entertainment, teaching my sisters and their families how to play the Wii board.
Here I am trying to gain the new high score for Hula Hooping. I've been trying to beat the high score (a 10 year old friend of Hunter's has held it) for months. Though it was hard, my superior hips came through in the end. Ha Ha!My cute niece Linnea, is taking on the snowboard. She is a natural born sportswoman, and was very adept at anything she tried. She is a Ketcher.... what can I say, except she will freak out if she ever finds out she has been blogged. Go Lin!
If this isn't the picture to end all others. My mom on a Wii board..Who'd a thunk? Maybe her compact size makes her a shoe-in for Ski-Jumping.Sometimes a bowl just isn't big enough. For real! Here is improvising at its best since I didn't have a bowl big enough to mix the stuffing. We had 4 huge bowls filled with bread, and all the ingredients ready, but there was no way to get it all together. Here my sister, Leslie is applying the elbow grease to get the job done. (The stuffing was divine!)Trying to get all ready for the feast. With 23 of us, it was a little nutty, but all went smoothly.I love this picture, 'cuz it just screams.... " Is the turkey done yet" We all were ready!Apparently, my nieces are fluent in the art of origami. They were creative enough to fold some beautiful napkins for our tables. How fun are they? Thanks guys!Does it get any better? Hayley and her cousin Braden are taste testers for my sister's creations of pies. Yummy. Looks just as good before as it tasted after.The grand kids kept Grandma on her toes. Who knew that a couch could provide such entertainment. All of the kids got along amazingly.This is Emmy with her new buddy Ellie, (my great-neice?) Dang if that doesn't make me sound like a fuddy dud. They were darling together, thick as thieves. Emmy wound up, and Ellie as mellow as could be. It was so fun to get them together. I can't wait to see what adventures these two find themselves in.We all need our down time after the big bird has flown. What a darling picture to come upon. I couldn't help myself. Little Aubrey with Grandma. Perfect!This is apparently the way Emmy feels after everyone left. I think it sums it all up wonderfully.
I'd like to apologize to my family, that no matter my cleaning obsessiveness, my cold seems to have gone from my family to yours. Sorry. Hopefully that means that Stan's Rockin New Years Eve party will be germ free.