Bunch Thanksmas

This year my side of the family decided to have "Thanksmas," combining Thanksgiving and Christmas into one gathering.  We hosted at our house the weekend of the 10th.  It was an amazing and busy weekend!  First I introduced the fam to the game "Watch Ya Mouth" which is SO much fun!  You put a plastic thing in your mouth, which keeps it open, while you try to say something on a card for your team (or everyone in our case) to guess.  We quickly learned there are sounds much easier to say than others!  This game gave us lots of laughs!

Rubber baby buggy bumpers

We told Dad we were getting ready to understand him with his dentures in the future...haha!

Mason loved this game too!

Mom was the hardest to understand!

Saturday morning Mason had a basketball game so he had a large cheering section for the day!  Unfortunately they lost but you can't win them all!  As soon as that was over Dad, Aaron, Adam, Zane and I headed to Maryville to the Northwest playoff game.  It was COLD but we had so much fun!  I think Zane enjoyed being the only kid with all of us!  Northwest won so it made the cold okay!

On our way to cheer on the Bearcaks (as Thomas calls them)

I could barely move...but I was (mostly) warm!

A Bunch of Bearcat fans!

The boys had SO much fun with Thomas!  They couldn't wait to see him and he got lots of attention all weekend!  They taught him lots of stuff - like dabbing, building train tracks, and fixing vehicles.  We have lots of ideas for birthday gifts for him now!

See, Thomas, it's like this

Now you do it!

Zane and Thomas

Cousins!

Long day!

All tuckered out

Sunday was our big dinner for the weekend.  We had lots of family favorites.  Matt was in charge of the ham and found my apron so decided he'd wear it...

Master Chef!?!

Looks like he's actually posing here...

Brycers

Cutie Thomas

Thinking about smiling...???

Aaron teaching Mason how to make party potatoes

Mason helping out!

Present time!  Thomas literally wanted EVERY piece of wrapping paper off of there!  So cute!

One tiny piece at a time...

Bryce opening a gift

Look good Mason?

That's better - but SMILE!

He was making weird faces, this is the best I could get...

Loving present time!

Pure joy!

Sweet Thomas!

Get this thing off of me!

Now posing with the bow!

This looks fun...forget the present!

Mason got in on the box action.  But looks mad about it!  Ha!

Cars, trucks, pickups!

A Bunch of Northwest Fans!

I found this in Bryce's backpack!

We had a great time and miss everyone already!  I wish we could spend more time together, but we cherish the time we get!