Oh the Joy of Family Gatherings!

Yesterday, we did what lots of American families do on holidays....we had a family get-together!  Mama does most of the cooking, the grandkids all come to play with their cousins, and the adults just sit around and talk and laugh and share funny stories.  And that's just what we did yesterday with family.

The adults at the "round table"!

Mammy made brisket, baked-potato casserole, homemade mac-n-cheese for the youngins', corn-on-the-cob cooked on the grill, salad with nuts and cranberries, peach-n-blueberry cobbler and chocolate molten lava cake.  Yum!  Since we moved into our current home, we now have two seating areas!  One for all the grands and a huge round table for the adults.   I've always wanted a round table so you can all look at each other while you're eating!  So all the adults were stuffing themselves around the round table and the kiddos were in the kitchen eating away (or mostly playing).  All of a sudden we heard this blood-curdling scream!  Everyone jumped up to see who had cut their finger off (we forgot the kids didn't have knives) or who had fallen off the bench and cut their head open!  It was Lily Belle!  She was hysterical!  Just screaming and the look of terror on her face!!  When her daddy finally got her all settled down she told him that Carson Beth (cousin) had been insisting that Dora the Explorer was real!  Then she told her daddy thru shaking and tears, "But if daddy, if Dora is real that means Swiper is real too and that really scares me!!"  Well, it took everything within us all to keep for laughing our heads off.  Then Carson started crying cause she thought she was in real trouble for making Lily cry.  She then proceeded to tell us all that Dora is real cause they saw her walking around a mall or someplace!  (person dressed up like Dora) Oh the joy of family gatherings!

The Screamer!

Then later the kids were playing away up in the playroom and the adults were just hanging in the living room.  Cash was running around playing in water and cokes and we all just laughed and he thought he was cool and funny.  He won't understand the next time he does this and his mama gets on to him!!  We were telling different stories and Ashley started telling us of an event that happened while they were recently on a cruise!  They had been frolicking on the beach and she had come back to the ship with a bite behind her ear.  She said it hurt quite a bit and she applied neosporin.  But after about 3 days of hurting - it had grown into quite a huge bubble.  She said it hurt like heck to lay on that side of her head with that "thing" behind her ear.  Finally a few day's later she could take it no more and went in the bathroom and poked it with a pin!  She hollered for Conn to come help her as soon as "gook" started gushing everywhere!  I won't gross you out with her description but let's just say Conn said it was about the color of asparagus and there was a LOT of it!  So as we're all gagging Robin said she had probably been invaded by some sand fly larva eggs or something equally as gross.  Brandon has a really weak stomach and we all thought he and Sharla both were about to lose all their dinner!  Conn said it's been about a month since that happened and he still gags!!  Oh the joy of family gatherings!!

The girl with the Alien Ear Larva and The Boy!

And then we all started talking about funny videos on the internet and Brandon, Conn and Robin (male humor!) all decided to come into the office and watch them all again on my computer!!  Check out the videos......and I'll leave you with this....Oh the joy of family gatherings!!




And one more!!!



But no matter how much fun it all was... it's never the same without Dustin, Kelly, Cade and Cole!!!  Missed you all so much!!

Oh the joy of family gatherings!! Mammy & Pappy