Twenty Years? You Kiddin' Me????

One of the most fun things of the Christmas Season is watching "Christmas Vacation". I'm hearing it has been 20 years since it came out. That's impossible. I'm not much older than that.

After recovering from the shock that yes, I am much older than that...cough! cough!....In an effort to kick off our "Fun Old-Fashioned Family Christmas", we sat down and enjoyed it again.

This scene is a classic...(language warning!!)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGxyIhsSAow

And another one.....(even worse language, I'm afraid)....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk74WprmZxY&feature=related

I don't think a week goes by that someone in our family doesn't toss out a one-liner from that movie. That, my friend, is the mark of a classic.

'Tis the Season....

.....But you sure wouldn't know it to look at my home. We still have little wooden pumpkins and scarecrows adorning the manor. Aw, gimme a break. I've been really busy.

This week, it will change.

We did, however, have a big Thanksgiving.

We cooked two turkeys plus two turkey breasts, ham, and a bunch of deer meat. A plate of turkey and 1/2 the ham was left. We have some big eaters. Yes, we had allllll kinds of fixin's. I practically wore out my America's Test Kitchen cookbooks.

Dad and Nathan getting a turkey out of the oil-less turkey fryer...yum!:

Hubby's parents were blessed ten years ago with four granddaughters in six months. My, how they have grown:

My dad, a renowned (well, in our area anyway) pianist asked the kids to play. Thing 1 played a song he composed, and here you see Thing 2 preparing to play one of her songs from lessons:

The Big Boy played "Moonlight Sonata". There sure are a lot of notes on those pages. They didn't play perfectly, but it was good enough to make Grandpa tear up a bit.

Last weekend I finally put away all the dishes. Now, we can move on to Christmas. I just have to convince myself that it's worth it this late in the season.......