A Drunken Happy Thanksgiving Christmas

So I have no pics from Christmas. And maybe like 2 from New Years but hey, I've got plenty of pics from Thanksgiving! So lets all play make-believe and pretend these pics are from Christmas. What a great idea!


My second Thanksgiving Christmas was with my crazy fam. It's always a good time.


See all the happy faces?











Yeah, my siblings get pretty excited over the Holidays. I mean look at baby sis and her boyfriend:

Don't let that picture fool you, this is what they looked like just 2 seconds before I forced them to pretend that they liked each other:





Yeah, someone needed a drink!





Yeah right. Turns out my baby sis thinks that everyone who drinks is an idiot. So this champagne, of which millions of people drink for the holidays all over the world, is some sort of magic idiot potion.


I don't know how our world has survived with so many idiots running the country. Just think about all the corporate executives, presidents, religious leaders, and toddlers who run around drunk all the time!


What has this world come to?


Case in point, check out these idiots:






It's okay, even though my baby sis thinks I'm an idiot, I still love her.


I think.





However I'm not so sure 'bout Lindee...








She was obviously drunk in that picture...


So other than all the drunken idiots at our little Thanksgiving Christmas party, it was pretty fun. Everyone was there, even my long lost niece and nephew!





Aren't they cute? (Pay no attention to the huge Ram head hanging on the wall in the background. After Gary moved in all these dead animals started showing up all over the walls and the floor!


Interesting...





Well, dead and alive animals...some bigger than others...





Oh, and the newly weds were there of course. I finally have their wedding pics ready so I will be posting those soon! It's only like 4 months late. Whatever.





Isn't this the cutest pic ever??





Here's a pic of all the girls! My sis-in-law, me, baby sis & lil sis.





Now trying to get a nice pic of me and my dad was a little difficult with drunken Lindee jumping in the picture all the time! (Because we're all drunken idiots remember?)








Speaking of drinking...





And check out Brolan, he's runnin off with the wine bottles! Like father like son right? God I sure hope not.








(I'm not bitter at all about my family's view that alcohol is evil and everyone who consumes just a tiny drop is a drunken idiot. Not bitter at all.)


It was a great Thanksgiving Christmas!

I'm Not Even Gonna Put Thanksgiving In The Title Of This Post Because It Is Way Too Late To Be Posting About Thanksgiving.

Yeah, I'm writing about Thanksgiving so what? It was only last year.


Whatever.


I got to have two Thanksgivings this year so now I'm twice as fat and will have to double the amount of excersize I do. Which is zero so I guess that doesn't really change. Thank God zero plus zero is zero.


No wonder I love math!


So Thanksgiving number one was at a friends house in Park City. Well, it was actually at a hotel and we didn't actually start eating dinner until midnight so technically it wasn't Thanksgiving Day. But it was hella fun!


This is Jake and his girlfriend who put on the whole Thanksgiving Shindig. Yes, they are wearing some sort of furry pajamas over their swimsuits. Had I known it was going to be a pajama party I would have worn my onsie!





Waiting for Thanksgiving dinner we had plenty of entertainment! Everyone had gone swimming earlier which is why they are all wet and ugly. Ok, just wet, not ugly.


At least most of them...






Don't ask....











We actually ate the dinner in one of the conference rooms in the hotel. We felt like we were in Alice in Wonderland with the Mad Hatter's chair at the head of the table.


Bad ass right?











We even went around the table and each of us told what we were thankful for. Yep, like a real thanksgiving, we don't eff around folks.


What was I thankful for?

WINE!

(Oh, and friends and family too. Pretty sure I included those. )





And finally, proof that dinner was a success:





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Wait, You Mean Pilgrims Weren't Mormon?

Al and I stuffed our faces at his parent's house for Thanksgiving this year.


My favorite thing about Thanksgiving at my in-law's is the table. Isn't it beautiful?






When I grow up and actually have a dining room of my own, I'm gonna keep my table decorated just like this. All year long.


And of course when I grow up to be a big girl I will also have one of these and keep it decorated all year long:



But for now I'll just live vicariously through my sis-in-law. Aren't they adorable?



Al and I were the last ones to arrive, which of course was Alex's fault, not mine. He takes special showers ya know. So everything was pretty much ready to go by the time we arrived.


Here is my mom-in-law (or Damma, as Ava calls her) and her mom (Grandma Nancy) putting the salad together. We were so glad that Grandma Nancy was able to spend Thanksgiving with us.




And not just because she makes the best clam chowder, although that's a big plus. I don't know how this tradition started, but Alex's family always has clam chowder for their Thanksgiving appetizer. ALWAYS. I have no idea why.


Ok, now I've got myself all curious about it too.


Cris? Why do you always have clam chowder for Thanksgiving?


I'm pretty sure the pilgrims didn't have clam chowder at their dinner. Of course I'm horrible at history so I am really not the one to ask. However I have to say that there is one person who knows less about history than me, my lil sis. Which reminds me, you HAVE to hear this story!

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*True Story*


We live in Utah. Utah has a holiday every 24th of July to celebrate the pioneers who traveled across the country to settle in Salt Lake City to create Mormon Land. My sweet sister Lindee thought that the pioneers and the pilgrims were the same thing.


That's right, she thought that pilgrims were mormons who traveled all the way to Utah to have their thanksgiving dinner with the Indians.


UTAH.


I'm pretty sure Joseph Smith was not a pilgrim.


And she didn't just think this when she was little. No, we found out about a year ago that she still believed this! Come on Lin, even I know the difference between pioneers and pilgrims. I am not lying people, this is a true story, and Lin will never hear the end of it.


I will never let her forget it.


Ever.


In fact, I will start my own family Thanksgiving tradition and tell that story to my children at the dinner table every year and we will all toast to my sister's stupidity.



Thanks Lin, I just love traditions!


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*Okay, back to our 2009 Thanksgiving*


This is Colin, my huge 7 year old neph. I still can't believe he is SEVEN YEARS OLD. I love his toothless butt!




My Albert only has two brothers so I get to have two sisters in law. I definitely lucked out in the sister in law department. Good taste must run in the family.




Ava, being the only girl grandchild, is always the center of attention at all family get togethers. Can you blame us?






Her two older brothers, Jaxon and Colin, adore her. Here is Jaxon helping Ava dress up in her princess costumes. (She is such a girly girl, I love it!)





I love Jaxon, he is the funniest kid ever. He picked out the leg of the turkey for his thanksgiving feast and I noticed he was examining it when I went to take their picture.


He started picking off all the meat and then told me that he was just going to look at the bone. That's it. He just wanted to study the turkey bone for his dinner.


Oh man, he cracks us up!


Speaking of turkey, here is a shot of our feast.



The food and wine were delicious and after stuffing my face I took a nap.


Surprise. Surprise. Me napping. Again. It was awesome.


I will leave you now with a picture of Bert.



He likes to wear black shirts with off-black hats.


Ya can't help but love his ass.