Land of NotSoCyber's Thanksgiving

Wanna see what I did while I was lost in the Land of NotSoCyber?


1.  ATE. LOTS.

I had this for lunch on Thanksgiving Day. 

And it was as heavenly as it looks.  All of that was cooked by the hands of Kirk's 89 year old Grandma Scott, in addition to a scrumptious assortment of pies, of which I shoveled my share of cherry pie in before I could even reach for the camera. 

Here's the kids' table....at which I did NOT wish I was sitting at this dinner...because the subject matter of the grown-up table was most DEFINITELY NOT on wart removal.  

I had the pure joy and bliss of discussing the wonders of The Twilight Saga with Kelly and Jana, the cousins' wives.  It just might have been the BEST dinner conversation ever.  Ever.  Ever. 

Just 5 short hours after that go round, we had Thanksgiving dinner at Kirk's parents' house with the other side of the family.  And I ate this.  And acted like I had not just scarfed down a whole horse just a short while earlier.

Yep.  You guessed it.  It was yummy.

But I didn't make the cut to sit at the big table this meal.

I ate at the bar with Joyce, my mother-in-law, and we worked very hard to take a fun picture together...uh, yah.

2.  DID SOMETHING I'VE NEVER DONE BEFORE.

My mother-in-law trusted me with the huge job of slicing up the jellyfied canned cranberry sauce this year. I never eat the stuff, and have never touched the stuff except to pass it to my left at the table.  So this was big stuff for me.  I felt honored.  Until I cut it all jabberwonky and felt mightily ashamed for messing up the almighty cranberry.

But they still ate it.

3.  DID A COUPLE OF UBER-HILLBILLY BUT SUPER FUN THINGS.  BECAUSE WE TAKE HILLBILLY-ISM VERY SERIOUSLY.

On Friday, after pushing and shoving our way through some good Black Friday deals (free legos...score!!), we all loaded up and headed out to the family farm for some good ole' gun shootin'.  That's right.  Shootin' guns.  For fun.  Yes...we are some of those people.

Take a gander...

By the way....I promised my family that I would add in the disclaimer that the old beat up camper seen in those pictures is just used for housing freezing, stinky, hungry deer hunters. 

This is the cabin beauty that we CANNOT wait to be finished.

It's going to be amazing to spend snowy weekends cuddled up by the fire in that place...

Back to hillbilly fun...remember this lady? 

Yah.  I decided to channel her when we were getting ready to head out for home. 

Since we had both vehicles plus a trailer at the inlaws' house, Kirk rigged my van up on the trailer and pulled her home with Conan.  No need to burn two tanks of gas. 

Oh...I almost forgot...we also rode tractors and four-wheelers.  Super fun.

4.  SPENT TIME IN A MINDSET OF UTTER THANKFULNESS AND GRATEFULNESS FOR FAMILY. 

Kirk with his mom, Joyce, and our niece, Moriah

My TaterTot

Fellow sister cousin friend Jana and sweet baby Nathanael (who belongs here)

The boys with their Granny munching on cupcakes

Moriah and Kirk wearing those same cupcakes....

Kirk's cousin Todd (who belongs here) and his pony....because I promised him he'd show up on here!!  You're welcome, Todd!

Joyce, Moriah, and me

So incredibly blessed.