23 Koreans and 1 blonde

So the anxiously awaited day has come and gone. Thanksgiving at the E&D Oh household was quite a treat this year. We had Rachel and Miriam come in from LA, Mom and Dad Oh from Seattle and Yeoungmee and Sean from N.J. - they all stayed in the basement and hopefully had a grand ole time. What was first going to be a nice Thanksgiving meal for the 9 of us turned into 23 people lickity split. I asked for it. Not that we are partial toward Koreans or anything, but somehow my house was full of them and it was fantastic! Of course the jello salad, sweet potatoes, marshmallow fruit salad, pies, and cookies are all continuing to go stale as they were a little more afraid of the sugary items. Asians aren't so fond of sweets from what I've gathered. So basically they prefer all the opposite to the Winter family households. I wasn't offended in the least as I was well prepared for the rejection. They still joyously ate from the other 67 dishes we had to offer:) Anyhow, Erik's cousin Sean is 15 and has attempted twice in the last year to test the so-called Utopian Utah snow, our mountains have not adequately provided. Therefore, he sat around a little bored, staring at all his gear in our garage every time we got into the car. Hopefully he and Erik had fun playing football and being boys.

Daddy Oh, Rachel and Miriam helped me with some pretty extensive leaf raking on Saturday. I think we all thought we were engaging in a fun simple activity which took a hard turn for the worse. We discovered more dog poop than you could ever imagine. Yes, this is not a duty Erik is really on top of. In all fairness to him, we have never really established whose job it is. You'd think that naturally would fall in the man's shoes but I tend to be the one found in the yard. Either way, it was nasty and Rachel had a little too close for comfort incident. As much as I love stories that involve...well....you know....I will leave it to your imagination to save the disgust of any prissy people who may be reading this. As my mother in law would say, "poop not dirty, come from body you know." Anyhow, so yeah, we had a lot of leaves to rake, filled 2 garbage bins full after mashing and mashing them down about 8 times a minute. It felt like we were dragging bins full of dirt they were so heavy!

Saturday we got family pictures taken with all of the Ohs up in Little Cottonwood Canyon. This was their first time taking a family pic outside of a studio. I insisted their serious and formal look had gotten a little outdated and that maybe we should ruffle the feathers a little and take a chance in the mountains. My friend Rima did Mommy Oh's makeup which was fun to watch. We took before and after pictures and decided that she turned my mother in law into Connie Chung herself! Seriously! It was hilarious! She looked fabulous. The pics turned out really nice although I still have to laugh. We were posed in some very nature-esque settings that were absolutely beautiful. There we were on all these rugged rocks with twigs and reeds all over the place, men in slacks, women in Christmas party type outfits. I'm not dogging the choice of our apparel by the way, cause we looked good, it just made for a unique but pleasing contrast.

Okay so the sad part of this whole post is that I have lots of great pics from Thanksgiving to paint the visual but unfortunately my camera or my cord is having some temporary issues and I've been unable to download pics for some time now. Still in process of resolving. So until then I will continue to blab.

p.s. loved August Rush, all should go see it.