Don't forget about Thanksgiving

The holiday season is approaching! Everywhere you go decorations are beginning to don the outside of business buildings and homes and 107.3 is already playing Christmas music 24 hours a day. Nonetheless, besides the recent flourish of holiday cheer, I haven't forgotten about Thanksgiving. In the past, I waited patiently for the November festivities to come to an end before I turned on my never ending Christmas CD's and hung shiny lights sparkling colors of red and green. But, the older I get the harder this becomes. I'll admit defeat. Yesterday, I turned on holiday music for the first time this year (and I MIGHT be listening to it now as we speak) and you guys, the excitement just built up inside. After spending about an hour listening to Frosty the Snowman and Silver Bells, my little brother/roommate decided it was "time to go out and buy Christmas decorations and put lights in the house, and maybe buy a fake tree, and decorate the house that day so that when we came home from Thanksgiving it would already be done and we could maybe make some peanut butter squares while we're at it and...."

OK, that was enough.

I realized then that maybe we were jumping the gun a little bit. I turned off the music and refused to go out and buy plastic candy canes for the yard. Just a couple more days and we could do all that, but for now...let's concentrate on Thanksgiving (but a little music won't hurt, will it?).

Last year, my Dad's side of the family came down to good ole' Moulton, TX to celebrate the annual November holiday. It didn't take long after they arrived for events such as these to occur:



Oh ya, they made shots and passed them around for quite a while.





Welcome to a Stevenson Thanksgiving.

Now, in all honesty, this doesn't happen every year. My Dad and his siblings went to Mexico the previous summer to celebrate the oldest brother's and his wife's birthdays and apparently they were reminiscing on some shots they had tried while away on vacation. Nevertheless, it was quite funny to watch Aunt Toni choke down a "snake bite". There is one aspect of a Stevenson get together that never fails to make an appearance, the Uncle Gary Bloody Mary. So I am sure, come Thanksgiving morning next Thursday, the meal won't be the only thing getting prepared.

Another thing about our family holiday traditions is that we don't usually have the traditional meal. We don't eat turkey on Thanksgiving or Christmas, we eat pork, and this year we're bringing in a whole hog and roasting him on a pit in the back yard (or field in our case since it's in the country). My dad said he's putting an apple in its mouth just for Barbara, I'm sure she'll love it, haha.

Last year's Thanksgiving was a whole lot of fun. In fact, I found out I got into Texas A&M on thanksgiving day! It was an awesome feeling. So we went and did a little of this later that night:



We celebrated with a little bit of dancing!

So, the holiday season is fastly approaching, but there are still 5 more days until Thanksgiving, and to be honest, I am a little bit excited about it. I can't wait until I get to eat all that wonderful food, spend time with the side of the family whom I don't see too often, and maybe (hopefully) watch the Fightin' Texas Aggies BTHO t.u.!
A-A-A WHOOP!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!