Last year, Corey and I started the tradition of spending Thanksgiving and Christmas with only ourselves and we thoroughly enjoyed it. No hectic family drama to endure; just a nice, relaxing day of whatever we want.

We were planning on doing the same thing for Thanksgiving this year, but our friends invited us over to their place for Thanksgiving. We’d never pass up an opportunity to spend time with Ali, Tyler, and the kids so we went over to their house.

The dinner was awesome! Ali did a wonderful job on the turkey, dressing, yams, mashed potatoes, and green beans. (I’m sure she also did a great job on the homemade cranberry sauce and gravy, but I don’t like cranberry sauce or gravy.) Normally, I hate yams, but I absolutely loved hers! I think I had three helpings because they were so good! Corey and I were in charge of rolls and pies. Our rolls were just store bought, so they didn’t even compare to Ali’s wonderful dinner!

Corey made a pumpkin pie with a graham cracker crust, which ended up being really good. I hate regular pie crust because it always burns around the edge of the pie, so I was willing to try something new. He also made a fantastic blackberry pie.

We spent the entire day with them. Jack was so excited to hang out with us. We played with his cool garbage truck and his awesome Geo Trax train set. When I finished building the track, he told me, “Aunt Jenni, you’re such a wonderful, good girl.” (The above picture was actually taken at our house; we were having too much fun and we forgot to take a picture of Jack!)

Sheridan’s a tank! She sees something she wants and nothing can get in her way. In fact, what she wanted in this picture was Corey’s cell phone. That’s why she pulled herself up to see him. She crawls so well, pulling herself up on things, and even kneeling. She also loves to dance and can stand for about 10 – 15 seconds on her own. She ate mashed potatoes for the first time, which she liked. And, she ate pumpkin pie for the first time, which she loved!

After the kids went to bed, the adults talked and played a couple games of Hoopla. Hoopla’s a watered-down version of Cranium. It’s a lot of fun and it’s only supposed to take about 20 minutes to play. We ended up playing two rounds in about an hour and a half!

One of the categories is Tongue-Tied. You describe the clue using words that start with the same letter. You can choose the letter, but once you choose it, all other descriptions must use that letter. Corey got the clue, Transylvania. These are the words he used, “Vi vant vo vrink vour vlood!” 8O Can you say cheater?

Another one of the categories is called Tweener. You describe the clue with the following pattern, “It’s larger than a ____, but smaller than a ____.” For example, if you had the clue handcuffs, you might say, “It’s larger than a bracelet, but smaller than a jail.” My clue was the Great Barrier Reef. This was one of my descriptions: “It’s larger than an anemone, but smaller than some really large water plant.” :???: Wait! What? Say that again! :lol: I had a really hard time coming up with something, but Tyler still got it.

We had a great time celebrating Thanksgiving with the Vigues. I honestly don’t think we could’ve had a better day.