OC Thanksgiving

Every year we head down to visit my brother and his family in Orange County. We always fix a yummy turkey dinner and catch up! Tien and I were in charge of making the dinner this year and we were pleased with ourselves-it was yummy! It was wonderful to see Kailynn and Brennan. Brooke LOVES her cousins and gave them lots of kisses. I took lots of pictures (that's odd right?)Toby, Tien, Kailynn, and Brennan were great hosts. We had a wondeful time! Of course, as our past few family gatherings have gone we always end up with one "exciting" thing happening. This time it was Scott and his trip to the ER.............Scott was watching a football game and standing next to a pot of bamboo sticks in the Vares family room..........and after watching the 49ers quarterback throw an interception he bent down and said oh man! The only problem was he bent his eye right into the bamboo sticks. After the scary moments and I discovered he could see we took him to the ER. While there, he got 4 stitches and a tetnus shot. He was left with a swollen shut, stitched up, black, blue, and red eye. I am just so thankful that he didn't do any permanent damage (you can check out the pictures to see what he looked like) So he is now wearing sunglasses and the ocassional eye patch (thanks to Kailynn) Thank goodness we took family pictures the night before!!