What was lost this year in translation/transition was the family shove football game. Last year I took a big leap for a ball and came down off the end of the yard, an act of athleticism that cost me about four months of a kink in my leg (I refer to it privately as a Mr. Mustard Volleyball-like incident, though his sports injury came well after mine). I have more yard and no cliff at the back end, which might have made it much easier, but it also seemed quite a bit colder than it was last year so the subject only made a brief appearance and disappeared. We settled for watching Mark and Sue get beat in Madden by Jesse - Sue made a much stronger showing as the 2004 Vikings than Mark made in his game.
On to the pictures:
The main table - once a conference room table for the local nurses association, now my excuse for not buying anything new. In the lower right corner you can see Eryn studiously not eating by sitting on her sit n' spin.
The kids table. Conner was in this picture, but he's hidden behind my aunt-in-law Sue's head. Note that they're getting ready to play some poker as soon as they're done - the chips are open on the wine cart behind them.
Seth and Jesse. This picture was exceedingly difficult to capture as the amount of time that elapsed between the food being placed in the front of them and the food completely disappearing was almost instantaneous. I think they're secretly hamster children and just pushed the food back in their cheeks and ate it later while playing. That's my nephew Max in the booster on the left. It was announced that he's going to have a sibling in about half a year, though everyone seemed already aware of that fact before the announcement and were more just getting an announcement that the official announcement had finally been made and they could act surprised.
The other kids' table - my aunt in law and two uncle in laws.
Bob the big green bear - a victim of a vicious boing-ing. Conner, Eryn, Seth and Jesse all abused poor Bob - he's much squishier than he was before Thanksgiving. Bob got angry and tried to suffocate Jesse, but Seth was sitting on Bob, who was on Jesse, so maybe that doesn't count as revenge.
A picture of football watching time in the basement.
The long Minnesota goodbye. Eryn has mastered it - she sits next to the door and spins on her sit n' spin for thirty minutes. That's what it feels like to everyone else, so why not just create the sensation directly and be done with it.
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