Monday, December 29, 2008

SO WHAT DID YOU DO FOR THE HOLIDAYS?

We all went to Earnie’s house on Christmas Eve and she (as always) had a great deal of food. Derrick (Brianne’s fiancé) smoked ham ,turkey, chicken and pork butt. Earnie made homemade chop suey, chocolate pie, coconut pie lemon pie and an ice cream cake roll. After the feast and after opening sparkly gifts we went in to clean the kitchen. Sandi was trying to put a bag of ice in the freezer when Jimmy came up behind her. Someone said he goosed her. All I know is he was trying to put her IN the freezer and she, for the first time in her life fought back! She was trying to put ice down his shirt and he had her upside down! Jimmy was laughing, Sandi was yelling and the rest of us were trying to get out of the way . Earnie came running in and made them stop. They were huffing and puffing as they crawled around the floor trying to pick up all the ice and Earnie was still fussing so Sandi started filling her ballerina house shoes with ice. Then Earnie was jumping and yelling. Meanwhile Cloud is out in the truck drinking-a LOT of Greygoose. Jack went out to sit with him and people started leaving. Cloud gets out of the truck and falls flat on his face in the gravel. Jack was trying to get him up and in the house. When he gets in we see he has a big mark on his forehead, his nose is skinned and his lip is cut. So we rolled him to the bedroom and we all went to bed and hoped Santa would remember which ones of us were good. Christmas Day is a whole new story. So what did you do?

2 comments:

Cory Ladd said...

Wow! Jodi just told me about Cloud - I'm thinking it was the change in temp, when exiting the truck, that made Cousin Cloud lose his balance. In my experience, the more Grey Goose you drink, the better your balance gets. So it was probably a good thing he drank so much of it or God knows what could've happened!

I sure wish we could've joined you guys! I was telling Jodi that, if this had been 35 years ago, we probably would've been making the trek into Cicero for Christmas! As it was, we had a pretty low key Christmas day. My brother Nick & his family flew in from Wichita, KS - which was really nice. His son / my nephew Christian is now 16 mos so it was nice having a baby around for the holidays!

Hope everyone had a great holiday!

Debbey said...

Cory, Cloud keeps saying it wasn't the Goose. He swears Jack did something to him. He said everytime he gets with Jack he pushes him out of golf carts or knocks him down when he's not looking-----