Post Thanksgiving post

OK, I suppose I should explain my last post a little bit. I'm not usually so keen on publicly making a fool of myself, but sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet. I thought about my parents and siblings not being together this Thanksgiving and it made me a little sad not to see everyone. Then I thought about losing the "Thanksgiving Song" tradition and that was just too much; I knew I had to do it.

Five or six years ago my brother Clair modified Adam Sandler's "The Thanksgiving Song" to include funny references to our family. He sang it after we ate pie and everyone loved it. It was so hilarious that he had all of us rolling with laughter. Then due to popular demand he did it again another year. Then he recruited me to accompany him with the guitar. Then finally last year I did guitar and sang a little with him.

My family has gotten together for Thanksgiving for several years now. They've made the trip from Alaska to Utah for several years so it's been really great time to get the whole family together. Not to mention my mom's a great cook and her pies are amazing.

So in a nutshell, even though we couldn't be together I was glad we could remember each other through a silly song and some of last years photos.

Thanksgiving Song 2008

The Family Thanksgiving Song 2008

Love to eat turkey
Love to eat turkey

Love to eat turkey
'Cause it's good
Love to eat turkey
Like a good boy should

'Cause it's turkey to eat
So good

Turkey for me
Turkey for you
Let's eat the turkey
In my big brown shoe

Papa's favorite is
The pecan pie
If you eat in under 10 minutes
You'll make mom cry

Singing without Clair
Makes me feel like a dope
As long as it's not on
YouTube then there still is hope

James thinks he's the best fisherman
In the bay
But Brooke can catch more salmon
Than him any day

Turkey lurkey doo and
Turkey lurkey dap
I eat that turkey Then I take a nap

Thanksgiving is a special night
All the sisters used to say Dynomite
That's right

Turkey is much better than
The french fried frogs
Dad has been banned from
Ever stepping on logs

Turkey for boys
Turkey for girls
Ruthie has the cutest
Babies in the world

Michel's little students
think that she's the best
That is until she gave them all
That really hard test

After all the eatin'
We will take a little nappy
When Clair is a Dr.
He will be so happy

Connie is the queen
At the Barnes and Noble
Without her all their special events
Would all be reduced to rubble

Turkey for me
Turkey for you
Joy is still cuter
Than her boss tattoo

Me and Carrie's back pain
Can really hurt
But we still really rocked out
At The Police concert

Gobble gobble goo and
Gobble gobble gickel
I wish turkey
Only cost a nickel

Oh I love turkey on Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to my family!

Family portraits

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Miles

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All of us

I do believe in spooks

Happy Halloween everyone. I haven't been posting too much lately, but today I am happy to celebrate my 200th post. Wahoo!

I've been a slacker photographer lately. I think I must be recovering from all the photos I took in Alaska. Maybe it's because everything just seems so mundane in suburbia after 3 weeks in the Great Last Frontier. But better late than never, here are pictures of the spooky pumpkins that the kids carved with Dejah last week.

A bat flying over the moon, a spider hanging out under his web...

...and Ian's broadly grinning spook.

I do believe in spooks, I do, I do, I do!

Burlap and springs

Right now I'm taking a community-ed upholstery class. I signed up so I could refinish some chairs that my mom and dad gave us. They're great chairs, but we wore out the seats and the foam started to come out.

However, the teacher thought it would be best for us to create some furniture from scratch, and then refinish our own stuff in the advanced class. So the first class we all designed an ottoman, the second class we built the frame, the third we learned how to sew, and the forth we stretched the burlap straps on the frame, and next week we'll attach the springs to the strap.

It's nice to have a post-summer project.