Giving the Thanks!

This year was the McGee family's year for Thanksgiving. We rotate it every year between my family and Lisa's family. So this year we have Christmas with Lisa's family. Well for Thanksgiving we had decided a long time ago that we were going to send it at my sister's house in Longview, Texas. Since my sister is pregnant now my parents decided that they didn't want to travel all the way up to Longview for Thanksgiving because they will have to travel there for our family Christmas because my sister will not be able to travel by then, and then they will have to travel back up for the birth of the baby. Well my sister said that they were NOT going all the way down to Houma, so I came up with the idea to have our Thanksgiving in Toledo Bend where we spend all of our Thanksgivings when we were kids. They all liked this idea. So we decided to tell our other family members to see if they would like to join us for old times’ sake. My grandparents, Aunt Melinda (Meme), Uncle Sammy, Cousin John and his wife Angele, Cousin Jenna and Husband Hunter all decided to come too.

Our Plane landed Wednesday at about 11:00 in Shreveport from our trip to Disney World, we picked up Liam from Lisa's parent's house, and then we headed to Toledo Bend. We were all very excited about seeing everyone and having a good time playing games. That night for supper we went to my grandparents camp and we had a bonfire, made Hotdogs, and roasted marshmallows, and made s'mores (Yum). Well my grand paw wasn't feeling all that well he had been sick that day with stomach issues so we didn't want to stay that long with the babies, so we headed back to our camp we were staying at. We played canasta which is a card game with my aunt, uncle, and cousins.

Thanksgiving day all the adults were cooking, and Lynette brought a outside game that we all really liked it was called Redneck Golf. What you do is throw these ball things tied together by rope at this thing with bars. It's kind of like horseshoes, it's a lot of fun. We all like playing it. I think my mom and I played it all day. My grandmother woke up sick like my grandfather was, and was getting dehydrated, so my aunt and grand paw ended up taking her to the hospital for a couple of hours. That night we were all sitting around and Liam decided that it would be a good time for him to start walking. He was taking about 6 or 7 steps. yay. That night we played a fun game like cranium it was called pop cranium. We were laughing so hard. One funny thing was Lynette had a celebrity card and it was Ozzy Osbourne, and she decided to act it out. She made this really funny drugged up looking face and was acting like she was trying to mess with a remote. All the guys were on the same team, and we knew who she was suppose to be because we looked at the card. We were cracking up. The girls had no idea what she was doing.

The Friday that we were there it just rained all day, and Lisa and I left that day to get home to get ready for Liam's birthday party that we were having on Saturday. We hung out until about 4:00 and then we left to make it home.

We had a really good time see and playing with family. It's been a long time since we have had a chance to hang out like that, and it has been missed. We had a pretty good Thanksgiving holiday with family.