We Have A Winner!

My family loves to play games.
Here's the game I'm bringing to Thanksgiving this year!

 It's like Bingo, but with things that will make you laugh and wince at the same time.  In case you can't read them (I know the lettering is small, but it's easier at the Milko site) some of the bingo spots are:

Help Dry Dishes
Antacids
Choking
Broken Dinnerware
Green Beans
Go for a Walk
Sore Subject
Blown Diet
Belch
Test Grandpa's Patience
Kiss Somebody
...and the list goes on.


 I think it's hilarious! And it's all going to happen either way.  Might as well get it all out there, right?  I'll just let everyone print their own cards, and have at it.

I love it when my family gets together, but it's exhausting. It's not that we're all that crazy. (Present company excepted, of course) We're just a LOT of people. We like to do everything together, and we like to keep very busy.. All 35 of us.

This year, my brother who is the organizer extraordinaire, is having us all over to his house in the country, where he has has all kinds of things planned:
Our own Turkey Trot 5K
Family Turkey Bowl
pheasant hunting
shopping
paintball
trail runs and hikes
games (rock band, anyone?)
mountain biking
BYU game in high def
bonfires
and of course a HUGE dinner.  Probably more than one.

He even hooked up his old oven in his garage so he can cook 2 turkeys at a time.

(is my sister-in-law a saint?  why yes, yes she is!)

See, the thing is, we're in denial about how big we are. It just doesn't really occur to anyone that if you take 35 people to the movie theater, we are probably not going to be able to sit together.And then we're all totally annoyed through the whole movie, which completely cracks me up.

My family is SO excited to go!

Anyway, I thought you might like to have the link and the idea for your own Thanksgiving this year!

You're Welcome, and uh, good luck!

Yeah, I'm The Boss, But It's Really More Of A FigureHead Position

I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters. I love getting together with my sibs and my parents, because it can be just so dang much fun. We play hard, we laugh harder, and we are all just a teensy bit competitive. But we know we love each other which totally overrides the whole competitive thing. Usually.

All my siblings are very smart, incredibly funny, very successful in what they choose to do, and did I mention just a bit competitive? (where did we get that? must've been all those Saturday morning chore competitions. We had a smart mother.)

I've always thought of them as amazingly well-rounded people. But you know, everyone has strengths, and we are no different. While there is a lot of overlap, in my head, Todd dominates the smart category, Jenny is the compassionate one, Becky can do anything because she has the iron will of pure determination, and Matt is the persuasive, charming one.

I can hear every one of them reading this to themselves, and saying in their heads, "What? I'm ______________, too!" And yes, yes you are ALL all 4 all of those things. And so much more. (No,we don't still compare ourselves to each other. We're much more mature than that. Why do you ask?)

I am going to take all kinds of crap from posting this, aren't I?


Me? Well, sometimes they let me boss them around a little. I don't know.

But we've had a family joke going for years ... about who is "the funny one".
So I find it relatively amusing that my sister will finally, FINALLY admit in public and on her BLOG who is the funny one.

(This is really not what I think of my job in the family, but I find it extra amusing that she wrote about it.)

So if you're interested, Jenny's blog is here.