Turkey Day!!!

Well I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving, cuz I know I sure did! I got off work a couple hrs. early and headed out to Violet and Justin's for another year of Turkey day traditions! Although, I have to say Violet spiced it up a little this year!! Usually she cooks everything up the day before and has the house spotless and everything prepared except the turkey, which is Justin's job Thanksgiving morning! This year... we went shopping instead! Not because we needed to... just because we could! Wednesday night we left Justin with the girls and we headed to Home Depot, Costco, Ross, Safeway and then Wal-Mart. When we finally made it home, Justin and I popped in the movie Elf and watched Violet put up the tree. No, we weren't being rude by not helping... she prefers it that way! Our job is to keep her company, which we did successfully!



Thursday morning Steph and Kori dropped in to say hello and then the rest of Justin's family started rolling in for the day's festivities around 11pm. Violet, Justin and I rotated between showering, preparing food and last minute cleaning. And wha-la! Thanksgiving dinner was served!! I think Justin was a little more stressed with the way it all went down, but this is Violet's specialty... taking a task that seems impossible and making a masterpiece!! All of you that went to college with us will know exactly what I'm talking about!!


Anyway, food was awesome... the company, as always, was quite entertaining... and once again, Heather and I lost at Trivial Pursuit!!! We even merged with Abby and Violet and still lost!! Oh well, it always provides good laughs!! The first few years we played the original version, but RD (Justin's dad) has met everyone and experienced everything... first SuperBowl, he was there... riots at Berkeley... there. And his wife, Linda, has read everything!! We never had a chance. Then one year, we attempted the Star Wars addition... which meant we just sat back and watched Justin and Mikel answer all the questions. So a couple of years ago, we purchased the 90's addition, thinking we'd have a better chance of winning... not so much. We put up a good fight, though!


As the night went on, folks got sleepy and headed back to their homes and I stayed up to watch Violet finish the tree and then crashed for a good-night's sleep in Mia's bunk bed, praying that Violet would sleep in and not get me up at 6am to attack Wally World!!! Aaahh... another successful Turkey day!!