Oral Hygiene

I don't even remember how I discovered this one. I wonder if this will catch on? It looks like fun AND may help prevent cavities. Make sure your volume isn't turned up too high before clicking play...

Thanksgiving Big Bash Blow-out Pictures

OK, so it wasn't THAT big of a party, but it was GREAT having a bunch of family over for Thanksgiving dinner! I also enjoyed the prime rib and yummy yams. Here are the pictures -

First of all - there was a whole lot of cookin' goin' on! I didn't take many pictures, but trust me, it seemed like we were cooking for two days straight!


There were so many people, we had to set two separate tables. That's Nick and Sandra's friend Patrick in the background -




Did I mention that the food came out pretty good?




Lots of family were on hand to help celebrate everything we have to be thankful for!

Greg & Tracy's moms - Mickie and Judy -


Tracy's sister Sandra and her daughter Whitney -


Sandra's son Joey -


Tracy's cousin Marshall and his wife Amy -


Marshall and Amy's littlest one, Addia -


Tracy's dad Richard and others around the dinner table -


And the Swans -


I didn't get any good pictures of my dad, or Addia's sister Chesney. We had a great time! We should be rested up and ready to do it again in about 3 or 4 years!

Fixing Your Pictures

You know how you can click on a picture on a Blogger blog, and it will open the picture at it's full size? Did you ever discover that your pictures on your blog won't open like that? I just did. It took a while, but I found out how to fix it. Here are the instructions that worked for me -

http://ted-image-test.blogspot.com/2008/08/restore-image-clickability-compose.html

I just knew that everyone was asking themselves this question, so I thought I would satisfy your curiosity and post this answer!

Thanksgiving - Thankful Pie

We played a game on Thanksgiving. Tracy and Linda Stephens invented the game. Tracy said, "Why don't we have everyone write down something they are thankful for on a piece of paper, then we can read them before dinner". Of course I'm always looking for someway to up the ante, so I said, "Lets call Linda, the 'Game Queen' and see if she has any ideas along those lines". Linda said, "Cut the pieces of paper into pie-shapes, then you can put all the thankfulness together to make a pie!". She got that idea from one of her son's school projects. So that's what we did! Somewhere around noon, I thought, "Hey, why not invite all the other family members across the country and around the world to participate via e-mail?" So that's what I did. Here are the results!

Now you can play a game - see if you can guess who is thankful for what! You'll probably need to click on the picture to open the image so you can zoom and rotate if necessary...

Pie Number 1

Pie Number 2

Pie Number 3 (we had a lot to be thankful for!)

12/3/08 Update - re-linked pictures so you can click on them to open a large version.