Ahhh sweet family fun

I took a trip home to Colorado last week. It was at just the right time too. I so needed the refreshment of the sweet Colorado sunshine. But more than anything I needed my family. I so needed the reaffirmation of how truly lucky I am to have them. (Life) long story short, we all hated each other as kids. However, over the years we have grown very close.
I spent most of the first day with my sister. I so love spending time with her. She is the person I trust the most to be completely honest with me. We shopped and laughed and gossiped. My sister and I often try on clothes either over or under our clothes (depends on whether we are wearing a skirt or not). At one point my sister pulls a pair of pant on under her skirt, she does the shifting to look from all angles and decides that she wants it. As she is pulling down her newest clothing acquisition, in the middle of the store floor, her underwear go right along with it!! (had to have been the high point to the man near us that had quite obviously been dragged to the mall by his wife) Bare naked necessities for all the world to see! But as my sister always is, she didn't think anything of it pulled up her panties and waved at the shocked onlooker!!

The next day was full on family day. It was the sister and her husband, the mom, the brother, the kids, the niece the pure unadulterated joy!!!! Oh so many things about this day will live in T- family infamy! We ate, we drank and we played re-damndiculously stupid and funny games.

Now when I say we played games it is not like normal people play games. My brother is the most competitive person on the planet. Seriously, he made my sister cry once when playing Cranium!!! So my 22 year old niece is showing us this game she and her friends play called "Chicken Goggles". It is a game of pure strategy and athleticism for drunks. There are 4 moves in the game which follow the starting chant of "put your fingers in the middle, put your fingers on your diddle put your chicken goggles on (which is using your fingers to simulate glasses), woop". The 4 moves are right (woop), left (woop), reverse (woooooooooop) and skip (woopwoop). The game was getting tense, it was down to my sister, my niece and I. Woop, crap I am out. It is my sister and her daughter. My sister is intimidated and starting to show signs of fatigue. She begins to think, "what are the moves again?" So she does the reverse (wooooop). My competitive brother begins to heckle form the sidelines ," Who are you reversing to it is just the 2 of you?" Sister sees the error of her ways and decides to woopwoop. UGH brother begins to harangue and yell, "Still just the 2 of you genius!" Sisters eyes get bigger than the chicken goggles and she begins to panic. Brother yells, sister gets nervous woopwoop. My brother is screaming like a paint faced fan at the Super Bowl. My sister is beginning to look like some sort of looney bin escapee. woopwoop, woooooooop, woooooop, woopwoop!! Such fun.
Finally the chicken game ends and somehow a singalong ensues. We go through song after song. We separate parts for Paradise by the Dashboard, we debate the words of many songs. And our big finality was "You're the One that I Want". My sister is singing and pouring the wine. Ohhh big mistake!!! She puts her head down on the table. My brother then coaches her on how to properly be drunk...."ok," he says,"start breathing heavy and try not to let the mouth water." It goes on with brother leading my sister in drunk prayer to the porcelain god. Truly hysterical.
If I had a video camera I would be so rich.
God I love my family!!! I cannot describe how wonderful it is to be around this group of people that are loud and silly and sometimes rude. Because each and every minute that we are all of those other things, we are also a family that would do anything for the other!!!