Whew! We made it through Thanksgiving - bring on Christmas! I ended up with 17 people here for dinner Saturday, and so far, none of them have reported getting sick, so I probably didn't poison anyone. (Of course, most of the side dishes were brought by Jeff and Kirby - Thank you Kirby!) No major disasters, but we did have problems with one squirrel that wanted to come to dinner, and wouldn't take "no" for an answer.


After dinner, the "kids" went out for a football game in the street, and had the garage door up so we didn't have the front door unlocked (to keep Alli in!) The audience (Dave, Dad and Ralph)noticed a squirrel run into the garage. Dave couldn't scare it out of the garage, so he got Ralph's welding gloves and caught it and put it outside. The darn thing came back! They caught it again, and put it outside and put the door down, and the squirrel then wanted in the house. Mom almost let it in when she opened the front door at one point in time. Dave finally put it up the tree, and so far, it hasn't come back to the house or garage.


Here is a picture of the "after dinner crowd" - the ones that were not washing dishes! My kitchen was pretty full, so I don't blame them for going outside.

Here's a few of the game after dinner as well. AJ got up this morning going "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!" When I asked him what hurt, he said his ankle on one leg, and his knee on the other - he couldn't even limp!