Turkey Day 2011...

As they say...you can pick your friends...but you can't pick your family! Each and every family gathering of
Mom's branch of the family tree I am reminded of this! If any outsider were to see us in action, they would think we had been released from the looney bin! There always seems to be at least one laugh until you cry moment...and this Thanksgiving was NO exception!

(Meema holding Braylee)

(Not everyone is so willing to have their picture taken.)

(See...I get glares when the camera comes out!)

(Just a normal occurrence at Thanksgiving...)

(Meema in black and white)

(Not entirely sure why Paige has part of a napkin stuck to her lip...???)

(Paige trying to peel the napkin off... kinda looks like a horse when they stick their lips out! HaHaHa!!!)

(Nancy was squeezing Paige...well Paige decided to bite her!)

(One of the "models" before the photo shoot.)

(Cathy, Nancy and Mom doing their "photo shoot"..."We're going for the wind-blown look...but Nancy's hair won't blow in the wind! BaHaHa!"...Not sure why Cathy and Mom have their hands under Nancy's boobs. Seriously??!!)

(Nancy with her thinkin' and stinkin' pose...)

(Obviously cattle feeders make good seats...Well, not really...)

(Mom decided to try one out too...)

("Get in Nancy and we'll push you...down the hill! See if you can keep up!")

(Leftovers mad-dash madness!)

(One of the comments that spawned from these containers...Paige to Nancy, "Mom you look like Chinese takeout!")

(Paige had to take home some of Mom's Broccoli Rice Casserole...but she started eating it before she even put the lid on it.)

("No you can't just scoop it out of there!" as Mom's literally flipping it into the container.)

So the one major laugh-until-you-cry moment was when everyone was getting ready to leave.  Nancy grabbed what was left of the rolls and had them in a baggie.  While Nancy wasn't looking Mom reached over and squished the rolls (this is common practice in our family...you know, deform someone's food while they're not looking). Paige noticed what Mom had done and said, "Mom did you see what Kristy did? ... SHE SQUISHED YOUR ROLLS!" and to which Nancy replied in a dorky way, "SHE SQUISHED MY ROLLS?!?!" THAT was it...that was the trigger phrase...we all just cracked up instantly.  Later that afternoon Mom received a text referring to "squishy buns".

We're wanting to get together and play another game of Uno Attack, but the last time we did we had a laugh-until-you-cry moment because as Mom said it, "The foot stool about bunked me [her] off!" Not sure why bucked turned into bunked when she said it, but it was a bout of hysterical laughter...