Thanksgiving Holiday

I wanted to write a lot more about our trip to Utah. It was so fun to see everyone. We haven't been able to go back to Utah for over a year now. There are ten children in my family and everyone except Vicki was able to make it back. What a fun time we had. The cousins played and played together and there was not one fight among them. (Except for the time that Madison and Porter cornered Krew and tried to twin fight him. Poor guy.) BTW, a twin fight is when you bring your twin with you--Krew didn't bring his twin so he lost.
My mom has a cute little porcelain toilet in her mud room that is actually a watering bowl for her poodle. Porter thought she had toilets for little people and helped himself to using it. He just couldn't figure out why it wouldn't flush.
We had a huge dinner. There was a total of 34 people and two pregnant women. Jaymi was smart enough to give out assignments to everyone so that Mom did not have to make everything this year. We had pies coming out of our ears. Travis is the unofficial activity chairman for the family. He kept everyone busy. There was basketball, paintball, picture taking, dirt bike riding, Halo playing, WOW marathons, and lots of women sitting around visiting.
The twins played with Krew the most. At one time Jaymi, Mom and I were in the dining room. I could hear the twins and Krew playing through the baby monitor. I assumed they were upstairs outside of the room Lane was sleeping in. (Where the monitor base was located.) Unbeknownst to us, the threesome had slipped out the front door. The reason we could hear them was because they were playing below Lane's bedroom window. All of a sudden we hear Madison screaming bloody murder. I ran up one set of stairs and Jaymi went towards the other. She discovered they were out front. We both got there as soon as possible.
They had meandered over to the electric fence where the horses were kept. Apparently Madison had made contact. As soon as I got outside Porter started crying. I said, "Why are you crying? Are you hurt?" He said, "No, Madi scared me." Later we were talking about it and I said, "Madison you don't touch the electric fence with your hand do you?" She said, "I didn't." I said, "Where did you get hurt?" She said, "I put my mouth on it." Someday down the road I can hear myself saying, "You know, she's struggles with school. It must have been from the time she put her mouth on the electric fence." She's never going to live this down.
The weather was very cold compared to what we are used to in Vegas. Today, the kids were out in the backyard barefoot and in t-shirts. In Utah, they were dressed from head to toe in warm clothes. Anyway, it was certainly a fun time. I love being with family.