Thanksgiving CO Style

Wed night...Vegas to Richfield -uneventful drive.

Thu morning... Richfield to Grand Junction, CO -uneventful drive.

23 of Beck's family from ID, UT and NV all converged on the little town of Grand Junction, CO. I guess you could call it a swarm of sorts. Eddie will be familiar with all the names, Mungo will just have to adapt on the fly.

23 people (and our dog, Tahoe). Very uneventful and dinner was fabulous!!!! All the fixins. To top off the day, the Broncos won a very good football game in over time. WOO WOO.

Later in the evening with all the kids running crazy between the houses (Beck's parents borrowed a house down the street to help house everyone) it was chaos. I don't recall how many time I asked Beck if she knew where our kid was. Anyway, two of the kids became "misplaced". The ages are 1 and 3 (Teagan and Walker for Eddie). The parents went to the other house looking for them and they weren't there. They scoured the "main" house and found them both playing the bathtub the was almost full of water. They were having a grand time. Everyone thought it was cute since Teagan had taken her poopy diaper off and put in the toilet. She then proceeded to leave skid marks all over the tub while whe was getting in.

Funny until you think that there is a 3 and 1 year old playing a tub FULL of water with no supervision. Well, John (one of the uncles), didn't find the humor in it at all and make sure to let Chris and Aimee (the 3 year olds parents) know about it. "If people would watch their damn kids then this wouldn't happen!" Of course anyone who knows Chris...he didn't like that very much and let John know it. After some loud yelling and screaming in front of about 20 folks I had to pull John off of Chris twice. Shit got crazy in hurry!!!! No punches but damn CLOSE. This whole thing went on for about 20 min and I was thankful for not getting my ass punched! John is a strong little bastard. All was well later but that was some serious shit.

Beck and I went home the next day (Fri) to Richfield. Half way back to Richfield Beck realized that she had forgotten her work laptop. Her parents said that they would just come down to Richfield on Sat (today) and visit....

Adventure continues in next blog.

ST

PS. Mungo, you overlooked one important thing about your Thanksgiving. You were with the one you love most and you two are happy together. Give thanks for that, brother.