Thanksgiving means people travel.....and sometimes they travel somewhere it's easy for us to travel to! The Jeffers Clan gathered, so Shane and I joined the party!
Dan and Shar are currently living in Nebraska. However, he got called in for a big project in Boston. He's been making a ton of overtime money and felt like splurging. He bought his family a VR system while he was in town!
Shane got to try Beat Saber!
I tried it, too, but there's no video of that. Suffice to say, I would have been ashamed if I hadn't beat my 7 year old!
Dan has the same system in Nebraska. He was pretty good, but Shar was far and away the best.
Neat thing about VR: No one can block your view.
Unfortunately, Igor was busy. His house is under contract and he and Casey are planning on moving to a house they're building in Colorado.
Benjamin had been sleeping when we first arrived. He was up soon enough.
Benny is the first of the Jeffers grandchildren.
Bill and Jill are doing a great job.
Cute babies are cute to the non-sleep delirious.
Shane somehow decided Marcus was his favorite to pick at while all this happened. Ironic, since Marcus is the largest guy in the house (Thankfully, he's the least combative from growing up, so there is that!).
Shane actually got in trouble for trying to trip Marcus as he was carrying the dog, Oreo, out of the room. Shane timed the trip just right and it was almost bad. I made him sit in the kitchen until he apologized to Marcus.
Which took longer than advertised, because Oreo had explosive diarrhea as Marcus carried him! I can't make this up!
Marcus got changed, forgave Shane, and John showed off his models when our next pair of visitors arrived.
Matt was back in town! He brought Aiden over to say, "Hello."
Diane had been telling me that Matt "STILL" hadn't brought the baby over when he called.
Random: This is the only picture I managed to get with Ashley. She arrived late for the family picture and then left with Marcus and his girlfriend Lauren to see a movie.
But back to the kids.
Shane was by far the oldest. Benjamin is a month younger than Wolfie and a year younger than Aiden.
There were a lot of people, a lot of conversations, and a lot of noise to concentrate on and filter out in turn.
We stayed there with the Jeffers for most of the day. I believe we got there around 10:30 AM and didn't leave until 5:30 PM.
Shar had to catch a flight back to Lincoln and Bill and Jill were driving back, so it was time.
Plus, we wanted to visit Megan's crew!
Shane and B are a good fit. They're both raging extroverts! They started the night reading to each other.
Megan tried to get them interested in a memory game, at first.
Their attention spans didn't last.
Kathleen called and they all attacked to see her on Facetime.
Shane and B went down to the basement to set up some traps. Then they asked us to come and see them. Shane popped up behind Megan and rolled a yoga ball down the stairs behind her as she went down!
I would have died laughing except my 'Dad' reflexes kicked in when I heard the tink of glass. There were a a group of empty wine bottles sitting on the stairs the boys hadn't cleared out...
Nothing broke, Hallelujah! I had to give Shane a "Be careful" warning even as I mentally gave him a point for creativity (He won't know unless he reads this, though).
Megan had a game where there was a bomb the kids had to defuse before it's timer ran down. The boys loved it. B wanted to rescue her and Wolfie, as well.
I got to do a little uncle time with Wolfie myself.
Big B left to see a friend who was shipping out. I was drafted to keep Wolfie happy while Megan did some dinner prep for the boys (They had a lot of leftover turkey!).
Shane and I headed out when it was B's bedtime and went to Jama's. I tried to call Carrie and even logged in to WoW to see if she was on, but she'd fallen asleep early. I ended up playing tech support for Jama, farting around on my computer, and staying up later than I should.
Especially considering Shane woke up by 6:30 AM. Jama's new coach made for better sleeping for me....what I got of it, anyway!
Shane and I played Go Fish while Jama cooked.
Jama sent us to church well fed. We went to our church from Chantilly, New Life. We met up with John for lunch at Wegmans.
I forgot my phone charger at Jama's so we all went back to spend some time with her and then go on a walk. We found a snake soaking up some of the fleeting, Fall sun.
We killed a lot of time and hung out in a Korean bakery before saying our farewell to John. I gave Shane my phone as a distraction and he took a picture of me.
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