The Singin' Sons

This will make you SMILE!!!!

(Be sure to start and then pause it long enough to load some of the video so it won't stop on you as you watch it.)

Turkey Trottin' Time...

How could we have ever danced after our Thanksgiving dinner? Somehow, we did and did and did till we couldn't anymore!!

....and here's the rest of the story

Here we all are bowling at Zeppos. Dad was the adult winner and Joseph the kids'. We had so much fun. The little boys got strikes and spares too. Lots of high fives and cheering going on at our two lanes!

I forgot to mention the program the little boys put on Thanksgiving day. We LOVED their Thanksgiving poems, jokes and Cub Scout songs like Boom Chicka Boom. As soon as I learn how to post movies, I'll do it as we got lots of video of the day and then you can enjoy "Oh ya, a-huh etc." too!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was sooo much fun. The day before, I was on the phone with Aunt Jean a lot sharing ideas of what to do to make a fun T-Day. So...we did a lot of the same things with our families! We had Julie, Joe and Allison and kids, Uncle Harold, Aunt Trisha, Nathan and Margaret here.

Grandpa and Jennabee always have sweet times together.
Jennabee was sooo fun! She and Margaret would take turns making the whirlie-gig fly and after Jennabee's turn, she would clap her hands and squeal, "I won! I won!" The whirlie-gigs were the prizes for drawing a Thanksgiving picture . We displayed them downstairs by where we ate for part of the decorations.
Of course, some of the family went gun shooting. Even though it was really cold, the lead flew anyway!

The boys spent the night but couldn't fall asleep. So, they helped Jeff do his house job...10:30 pm is a fine time to clean the bathroom! Better late than never!Thanksgiving morning started with me telling Gramma Harris' Thanksgiving story. We had nine kids on the bed listening to me tell the story. After, we had buttermilk hotcakes...Yum! The Oaks came over mid morning for their hotcakes and it was so fun to have them come and stay the day. Everyone had jobs to do to help get the meal ready...what a good time we had working together! We had a dart tournament, football game, (The Mud Bowl) and watched movies and finally the meal was ready. We ate downstairs on the ping pong table. After dinner, we put on some lively music and formed a "chain gang" to clear the table and got everything back upstairs. What a crazy fun time! It only got crazier after that with Dad leading a parade to the Air Force theme march and then everyone dancing to songs like Cotton Eyed Joe and Surf City. The energy was high with everything from line dancing to the Lindy, to headstands, the "worm", and the Twist being done. Everyone danced to exhaustion!

Friday, the kids came over while Joe and Allison shopped. In the afternoon, Joey took them to the arcade in the mall and came home in time for supper. We had Thanksgiving leftovers and had Emily and Keith Feltis over as Mark was over visiting his family. Today, Joe and Allison and family invited us to go to Zeppos for bowling and pizza and we had a blast!! After, the Harris-Campbell women got together at Aunt Judy's for a dessert to celebrate Margaret's birthday. It was so nice to all be together, we decided to make it a tradition. The Apple Cup is on right now...Angela is watching it at Brent's, Dad, Julie and Jeff are listening to it at the kitchen table while they clean their guns from going shooting. I am having fun reflecting on our very eventful weekend and feeling grateful for having such a wonderful family to make great family memories with!

Friday Night Fun

Joe, Jeff and I went to the WSU-Vandal basketball game. It was so much fun to go with the little boys. When they got into the car, they told us they had their tennis shoes on so if too many players got injured, they could go down and play for them!

Good seats, good fun and good candy!

Uncle Jeffy's bedroom is a favorite place to hang-out .

Jeff is working hard at his banjo lessons. Bluegrass is his favorite style.

We are excited for Thanksgiving next week. Joe and Allison and kids will be coming as will Uncle Harold, Aunt Trisha and Margee and Nathan. We have a full and fun day planned from hotcakes and the Thanksgiving story in the morning to the little boys reciting Thanksgiving poems and jokes after supper. Wish you could all be here!

FRIGHT NIGHT

Jeff and I had such a fun Halloween. The little boys were expecting Jeff to scare them real good but weren't sure how he was going to do it. Hans was carefully looking for what Jeff might do as he checked out the scarecrow holding the pumpkin that had candy in it. By the time the boys got to the house, Jeff and I were well practiced in what to do...Jeff was a warewolf hiding in the yard waste container. We both had walkie talkies and when he saw someone coming down the street, he would tell me. I would go to the window by the piano and look to see how soon they would be at the porch. As kids came up to the porch, I would stand hidden by the door and say "Come and get your candy from the scarecrow". There was a walkie talkie in the pumpkin so it sounded like the scarecrow was talking. When I told the kids that, that was the signal for Jeff to throw back the lid and jump up and scare kids. Kids AND parents loved it. We had kids coming back several times, parents trying to sneek up and surprise Jeff...so we were good and ready for the boys. Jeff got them good and then climbed out and chased them around the yard. It was so cute when Austin stood his ground and didn't run. Instead, Jeff starting running away, screaming, with "Superman Austin" after him.

He and his friends kept coming back for more....

At the end of the evening, Jeff decided to dress up as the scarecrow and had fun scaring a few kids when they reached for the candy. Jeff's legs still hurt from being down in the can for two hours....but it was worth it!!