Thanksgiving Dinner
 

So of course like any large family dinner, children are seperated at one table (fortunately for us in the basement) and the adults at another (upstairs).

So Thanksgiving dinner went something like an MTV version of "I Bet You Will" at my aunt's house tonight.

It all started with us "kids" sitting around talking about shots and what is good and what sucks. Then we were lazy and decided instead of clearing the dishes, we'd pass each one down to cousin Michelle at the end who then scrapped the leftovers into an empty container...basically compiling a HUGE scrape pile.

So as we sit there, cousin Mike looks at the LARGE pitcher that held the gravey, and bets my brother to drink it all. We're talking 5 cups of GRAVEY! And after a thanksgiving dinner none-the-less.

So cousin Bill grabs the camera, and my brother Andrew grabs his cell phone to time it, and my brother Ben begins to CHUG GRAVEY! His goal was to get the whole thing down in under ten minutes and if he did so he'd be handsomly rewarded $50.00 from cousin Mike and Bill.

So in the first minute Ben chugs a cup of Gravey. Then two cups and a few sips of water. Then another cup. Finally he consumes the WHOLE GRAVEY PITCHER in only 4 minutes 24 seconds.

The whole kid table busted out laughing and clapping until an adult came down to see what was going on. So after dinner but right before desert, all 25 of us sat down to watch my brother chug gravey, MTV-style :D

Anyone else have some crazy things happen at their Thanksgiving Dinner?

butter....who knew it was so greasy?
 

i have two 3-year-old cousins.......somehow....they got into the butter......by the time we found out it was impossible to pick either of them up because they were so greasy!
my aunt and i ended up covered in butter too as we tried to clean them up! i must mention that the resut of "cleaning up" wasn't exactly "clean" because since oil and water don't mix, well.....i don't think i need to go on!....damn what a mess! (*at least it was funny!*)

my family plays trivial pursuit after dinner at every family gathering. first, my little sister calls because she's in New York and she missed not gettnig to play the game. Then, my grandmother who know everything ever missed 20 qyestions in a row. then, my aunt lost the game because she was asked this question (for those who were kids in the 80's/90's era): what resident of duckville drank from a ten-pound baby bottle? my dad ended up winning and doing his victory dance for the 7th family gathering in a row. i love family events.

Holidays in my family are rather hodge-podged together due to my Dad traveling so much. All though the last Thanksgiving I recall celebrating with him where my mom happened to be out of town this time involved my brother, my dad and I sitting around after dinner out at Shang High Red’s drinking beer and watching football. I had planed to go to a club that evening but I didn’t have an ID. So my Dad tells me that I should borrow my brothers since we look so much alike. He hands me a fifty and tells me to go test it out at Kroger’s by buying a case of beer. Sure enough it worked and I used it for two and a half years. Thanks Dad.

Holidays with my family usually entails everyone getting drunk, and from then on it can either be good or bad. Luckily last nite everyone was just happy drunk and got along. Whew!

Well, my dad and I cooked the dinner this year! This was the first time I made the turkey, and it turned out awesome. :D
I have a large family and they all come over around 3. Half of us sit in the breakfast nook in the kitchen and the other half in the dining room. We usually go and play a game of football in the backyard while those in doors watch the NFL games on TV.
Hope you all had a good day!

breaking tradition
 

My family came up to Chitown to see me instead of our normal trip to be with the rest of the relatives in Kentucky. So we went out to dinner at a nice restaurant downtown and had a family style turkey spread with awesome acorn squash soup. And then we gave leftovers to a woman who had spent all afternoon on the same corner panhandling for change. We also saw "My big fat Greek wedding" and walked down the Mag mile. All in all, a good time.

Anyone else opt out for food instead of home cooking?

bump. Just in case anyone wants to share.

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!!!

I'm waiting until tomorrow...thats the big day. My grandmother's birthday is tomorrow, and THATS when the whole clan is comming up. I had work today (stupid pollutors!!!:mad: ) and so did my brother (stupid boy never takes off holidays...always out protecting and serving), so we just decided to have small dinner with my grandparent tonight, and go all out tomorrow.

Tomorrow's Drink of the Day: Vodka a la Crapple...aka, my new fav drink- cranberry vodka and apple juice. Dangerous, cause ya can't taste it.

It's funny, how, even though I make practically the entire dinner and the fixin's, and the fact that I'm already 25, I still prefer sitting at the kids' table.

But good news though. My cousin Julie, who's so damn gorgeous and used to work as a model, considered a "spinster" by many in the family just because she's 35...announced that she's finally getting married. Fiance's with the 29th Brigade training in Fort Bliss, but he'll be back for the Holidays, so here we go with a shotgun Xmas wedding!

The applause I received at the end of dinner was well worth it, and I've hung up the apron till next year...

Now I'm off to find my fat girl pants and hibernate.

nothing unusual or funny ever really happens at our family get togethers. just your basic chatting, eating non stop, then sleeping with the tv playing in the background. we didn't even have that many people show up this year, which is strange considering how big my family is. i did realize something at thanksgiving dinner this year though. I barely eat on holidays when everyone else eats till their pants are too tight, and on any regular day, i'm always eating. i find this odd. oh well
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!