Crazy Moore Thanksgiving

With marriage comes the merging of families and since John has 3 siblings, that creates a lot of schedules to coordinate for holidays. When it comes to Thanksgiving, the Moores always celebrate the weekend before, which was today. We tend to be a crazy, fun-loving group with no shortage of laughter, food and some sort of injury each time we get together (however today we managed to escape injuries). There's always something crazy going on with the kids, due to the broad range of ages of the cousins. My nephew, Dustin is the oldest at 21 years old and my niece, Emily is the youngest at 2 years old with many more cousins of all ages in between.

The Christmas Costume Group

As with most holidays, we gathered at John's brother's house since it is ginormous and has an indoor and outdoor kitchen that can accommodate the mass amounts of food we prepare and devour. For the second year in a row, the turkey was cooked in the wood-burning pizza oven. Other regular food staples included grandpa Roger's home-made bread, cheese & crackers, baked potatoes dripping with butter, a fresh baked pizza from the pizza oven, a to-die-for dessert chocolate pizza also from the pizza oven and lots of wine. Needless to say, we ate well!

Ryely gives Kiley a piggy-back, while Kiley gives Collin a piggy-back.

Ryely with Kiley & Makenna.

We were all so happy that my nephew, Ryely, was able to fly home from college in Indiana to join us, it just wouldn't be the same without him. We were also thrilled to have John's Uncle John and Aunt Barbara join us from Northern California and my niece Piper's boyfriend, Jon. Yes, lots of Johns in this family. They got a taste of our craziness when half the family put on Christmas costumes and paraded around. They also joined in on a wide range of conversations including, spiders, morphing cockroaches, the amount of tissues it takes to kill a spider, Facebook quizzes, calculus, physics, public stupidity, who's the crazy aunt, Italian irons and mastering wine tasting. Yes, another Moore Thanksgiving has come and gone, but with Christmas just a month away, it won't be long for the craziness to begin again!