(jingle)
- [Videographer] Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
(laughter)
Go get it!
Catch it!
Yeah!
(everyone chattering)
- [Girl] Kevin gets to say prayer.
- Wow, wee! Wee!
- Are you silly? Uh huh?
- [Videographer] Why are you so silly?
- We are, he's getting dressed.
He's like help, I'm so cold.
Let's, I have an idea.
Let's keep you warm while we get you dressed.
(chuckles)
So now that your arms are in the blanket--
- [Videographer] You gotta be quick, mom!
- Let's put your head in, now let's do your arm, one arm--
- [Videographer] Just one!
Get it! Quick, quick, quick, quick!
- And usually Jackson gets dressed everyday,
so that gives me an excuse to help him
- [Videographer] Did I tell you that he got himself
dressed, yesterday?
- I know, and everyday.
Almost everyday he gets himself dressed, huh?
But, don't forget your underwear!
- That's happened one time (chuckles).
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- Hey, hey, what's under here?
- [Videographer] Go in your tunnel, happy Thanksgiving!
- [Mom] Mr. Calvin, Jackson wore this shirt last year.
Can you believe it fits you (laughter)?
Is there something on your lip?
Okay, look at you handsome buddy!
Jackson, let's see you!
Wow, you guys clean up nice!
Can you stand by Jax, Cal?
Let's see yah! Wow!
Are you guys gonna be good today?
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- [Mom] It's Thanksgiving!
- Yeah!
- [Mom] Do you know what Thanksgiving is?
- Yeah.
- [Mom] What?
- Giving!
- It's about giving?
- Yeah.
- [Mom] Remember, we're gonna be a family today?
And we're gonna say what we're thankful for.
We're gonna pick our noses.
- Why are we gonna pick noses? (giggles)
- [Mom] We're gonna wash our hands.
We're gonna have a lot of fun, okay?
We'll play in grandma and grandpa's backyard.
Play with the football, and the tramp, and the swing,
and the playhouse, with our cousins.
- No, our tree house.
- [Mom] And the tree house.
What are you wanting to do?
- Trying to do my letter book.
- [Mom] Your letter book?
- Yeah.
- Aw, that made me so happy!
We're getting ready to go down to the galley
for Thanksgiving.
Jared's getting ready, we're getting everyone and Penny
packed up.
Here's your letter book, you want a marker.
- I marker too.
- [Mom] You wanna color too?
- Yeah. - Come here. Jump on down.
- Blue.
- [Mom] You want blue?
- No, Mommy boo. (giggles)
- [Mom] You're so cute!
Um, here, we'll play with this.
I have a coloring sheet and a Bingo page that I found
on Pinterest, that I want to print out.
But while dad's getting everything ready, we're gonna
sit here, and he wants to do his letter book,
and we are gonna color.
- Bounce, counce, poo poo, poo poo one more time...
- [Mom] Is that the poo poo song?
- Yeah.
- [Mom] Wow!
- I'm gonna do the stink song.
- [Mom] Okay, let's hear it.
- Stink stink butt butt.
- [Mom] Awe!
- No, not the live turkey, the dead turkey.
- The cooked turkey, the delicious turkey.
(chuckles) Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
(laughter)
I thought when we played that the other day, I was like,
oh there's a live turkey and a cooked turkey,
how do we explain this?
(laughter)
- Okay, let's do the green leaf and the yellow leaf.
- Bingo! Bingo!
- What?
- Olivia with the first Bingo of the Thanksgiving Dinner
celebration! (other kids screaming)
- Good girl!
- All have blackout, this is out second round.
- [Dad] Oh my gosh.
- We'll keep going.
- [Dad] Did you guys eat all the goldfish too once
you got a blackout?
- [Kids] No, no!
- That's my favorite part of the game.
- [Kids] I did, I did, me!
- [Dad] Russel knows how to play, and Cody knows how
to play.
We just got to Ellie's parent's house for the Thanksgiving
Day Celebration and we have our, the family's kind of
divided up into different quadrants.
We've got the kids playing Bingo.
We've got some of the guys watching Football.
We've got the table over here, and where the magic
happens, grandma and grandpa with
all the turkey. - It's Penny!
- [Dad] Lincoln, do you see Penny?
- He outside.
- Oh fun! Yes we brought Penny, along.
- Where's Penny?
- [Dad] Do you want to go say hi to Penny?
- There, I see Penny!
- Penny is just dying over this new ball, she loves it.
I think that's the win from her anniversary celebration.
Lincoln and I wanted to come out and see Penny,
and throw the ball for her.
Do you want to throw the ball for her?
Yeah, if she'll let it up, we can throw it for her.
That's the hardest part of the game, is getting the ball
from the dog.
She's got one side of fetch down, but the other half,
you know, giving it back, that's the difficult part.
Oh, you're so fast, Penny!
Guys, we got the ball, we got the ball!
Let's throw it for her!
Ready Penny? Ready?
Go get it!
- Is that her favorite ball?
- [Dad] I think that's her new favorite ball!
Yay, okay! Catch it!
Yeah (laughter)!
I try to pretend to be!
- You're not pretending Ellie, this is you.
He wants to throw it?
- Okay, throw it to mom?
Come on throw it to me, I'll catch it!
- [Dad] He's running down the pipe, he's going down the
field, he dodges, he tackles left and right,
what's he gonna do? He's gonna pass the 20, the 10, the 5!
Can he make it all the way?
- Throw it, hurry, I'll catch it!
Throw it!
- [Dad] Lateral, yeah!
Oh, so close.
- [Mom] Do you have a name tag?
Okay, Jackson, Cody, Russel, and this is Calvin
and Lincoln right here.
That's where mom used to have to sit.
- I'm putting Porter up here too he's good.
- [Mom] Good! Good!
So usually how this works is the kids will eat,
and then go off and play.
The adults will sit and eat and end up talking
for a long time.
Where are you gonna sit?
You know what, Aunt Linda?
Right here, mom.
Yeah, yep, this is where I figured you might want to sit.
Want me to pull it out?
- [Aunt Linda] Yeah!
(silence - audio missing)
- I think this might be our first year with three tables.
Last time we had more than three tables, was when all
my aunts and uncles and cousins came.
Baby, baby table right there for moving all the kids,
middle kids right here, grown ups there.
- [Videographer] Stop hitting, don't you hit.
Stop hitting, don't you know you're suppose to be really
nice and respectful and happy?
You stop, you grr...
(laughter)
Did you just feed Penny?
- Yeah, we have her some turkey dinner.
She's such a good girl.
- [Mom] She looks very happy.
- [Dad] Yeah, hey! Whoa!
A little too happy.
- Where's Kevin?
(chatter)
- Digging for gold.
(chatter)
- [Mom] Kevin gets to say the prayer.
- Kevin has to say the prayer.
(chatter)
- [Male] Yeah, I had a lot of people tell me they couldn't--
- He's just waiting--
- [Mom] To play?
- Yeah, to play.
Look at his cousins.
(snoring)
- [Mom] He literally laid day two seconds ago.
(giggles) What the heck?
(laughter) Is he being silly, Aunt Linda?
She is so happy right now!
- [Dad] Oh, she is loving life right now!
Throw it Jackson!
- [Mom] Unlimited amount of balls.
- Let's go, let's go! - [Kids] Hey Jax!
- [Mom] Are you playing Thanksgiving football?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, we all are!
- [Mom] Penny will get it!
She's so fast.
(chatter and kids yelling) (laughter)
- Who!
- [Mom] Penny, we're gonna wear you out girl!
- There's no stick, I'm smarter!
- You are!
(laughter)
- At least my kid agrees with me.
Everyone else in the world may not.
- It's fun!
This is fun!
- Are you hiding the ball from Penny?
- Yeah!
- Wanna go play Football?
- Uh-huh!
- Just watch!
- (singing) Wee! Wow! Wee! Wee!
Our ball, the ball!
Wee! Wee!
- Mom likes baby!
(rawrs)
No, be nice. Look, be nice.
Say mama, you're gonna make me cry.
- Oh, mommy.
Nice baby.
- Say mama's baby.
- Mommy's baby!
- He always pets my face, guys, and goes mama's baby!
You are my baby!
And so is Jackson! (yelling in background)
You did, you caught it?
- Yep!
- Okay, let's see you throw it!
- [Background Voice] Jackson!
- [Mom] Woo hoo!
And Penny's my baby!
(laughter) she's so tired.
- [Kid in Lap] Mommy's baby.
- [Dad] Alright, here's what I want you to do.
K, you're gonna line up to my right, okay, once you get
to the trampoline, you're gonna do a diagonal
to the fence.
That's the play, okay?
It's called a slant.
- Hurry, Penny's not watching.
Go, go, go!
- [Dad] Go, go, go!
- No!
- [Dad] Oh! The defense was there, but the offense
was no where to be found.
Okay, let's run that play again, mom.
- Just throw it!
- [Dad] Yay! Mom!
- I think I can--
- She's so tired, she's not trying.
(chuckles)
- [Dad] Are you tired?
Are you just gonna sit there in place?
She's oh gees.
I can't keep up anymore.
Oh man.
- Are you having a good day?
- Yeah.
- [Dad] Good!
You're getting a little close!
- Jax acted perfect at dinner.
He's like Thanksgiving's my favorite.
We get together for Christmas, but, there's something
special about today, because we're getting together
just to see each other.
- [Dad] Just family.
That's all that's here.
- No other distractions. - Distractions.
- This is fun, just hanging out.
- [Dad] Dad said it best.
Penny come.
- [Mom] Come out here!
Get out here, stop talking!
I can see you talking, you're ignoring me.
They're all sitting in the window just looking.
Get out here!
- Well it only took an open swing to convince you guys
to come out here and move the party over here.
Watch out, oh gees!
Emma's double trouble.
You guys having fun?
Having a happy Thanksgiving?
- I am!
- [Dad] You are?
- I'm not.
- [Dad] Awe.
Well we should probably fix that somehow.
Penny! (laughter)
Let's try again!
Good throw, ready?
Hold your arms out?
Yeah! You caught it!
Good job, bud!
Go deep.
- [Mom] He's like, what?
(chuckles)
- [Dad] Um, Penny was, what the?
Where's Penny?
How did she get out?
Penny! Come here! Come here!
- [Teen Girl] The pie is out.
- [Dad] Let's go, uh oh.
Come on, come on, come on.
That could have been a Thanksgiving disaster.
Holy cow! I don't know how she got out!
But we have all this pie.
She definitely has the incentive to come, break through
her little kennel that we have.
Jeepers.
- I was like bad idea, bad idea, grandma!
- [Dad] Don't bring the pie outside with the dog!
- [Mom] We are on a walk.
The whole fam-bamily.
Except mom and dad.
How'd they get out of this?
So we walked to where this used to be our old
elementary school.
They completely tore it down.
They're making a splash pad.
And then that's the new elementary.
And the boys found rocks.
- Well, how many people did we have in this house, today?
- Oh dear.
- [Mom] Jackson says five.
- [Dad] And now there's only a few remaining.
- Save the best for last.
- [Dad] Oh, snap!
- [Grandma] 20 minus 4 here today.
- 25.
25 people, and now there's everyone count,
wait, one, two, three, four, five, six,
less than that.
So, (laughter).
So yeah, we're just wrapping up our day here.
And, having fun a good Thanksgiving.
Did you have a good Thanksgiving?
I had a great Thanksgiving!
Real quick, Jackson, can you tell me one thing
you're grateful for?
- Loading remote controls with cars.
- [Dad] Yeah, that's pretty cool.
Joel, what's one thing you're grateful for.
- Snow.
- [Dad] Snow.
Bonnie, what's one thing
you're grateful for. - Oh, that's so hard.
It's cliche, but I am thankful for my family, so there.
- [Dad] Good, yeah!
What's one thing you're thankful for.
- Everything.
- [Dad] Mom, what's one thing you're thankful for.
- Okay, it is cliche, but it isn't.
Family is everything, and I'm grateful that my children
get along.
- [Dad] Dad, what is one thing you're grateful for?
- All that they've said, but I'm really grateful
for 50" dirt trails.
- [Dad] Oh!
Olivia, what's one thing you're grateful for.
- Family.
- [Dad] Awe!
Calvin, what's one thing you're thankful for.
Peppa Pig? Great!
Markers!
Lincoln, what's one thing you're thankful for?
- Sharks.
- [Dad] Sharks? Okay!
Penny, what's one thing you're thankful for?
Bones!
One thing I'm grateful for, and it's funny because we're
sitting here, with the lights down dim, and we're sitting
all in the living room and we're talking, it takes me back
to the very first time I sat here in this living room
after Julian Mannon's wedding.
And we all sat here and talked.
I wasn't even apart of the family, but you guys were my ride
to my aunt and uncle's house.
- The couches were like this that day, too.
- [Dad] Yes, they were.
- [Mom] And me and you were right there.
- Uh huh, and I am grateful that we have the opportunity
and the desire and the conversation.
You know, I like sitting here and talking with my family.
And I'm glad that I'm apart of this family.
So that's what I am grateful for.
- Yay! We are too!
I feel like I try and appreciate my family everyday,
not just like, just Thanksgiving.
But, it was extra special, you know, it was,
just being together.
Even though we are together, even though I do get to see
my siblings, it was extra special.
- Yeah, and I mean, it's not that you aren't grateful
the other days, it's that you focus on the gratitude,
you know, and you try to think about all the things
that you're grateful for.
Because, really when it comes down to it, there are so many
things that we're grateful for.
And we'd don't always talk about everything that we're
grateful for.
- The biggest thing is family, because that's like,
the only thing that really matters to me, and us,
but, I was telling Jared on the way home, I was like,
I feel like, I everyday try and make really quality time
with the kids.
And it doesn't have to be a whole day.
But I really do try and like, a good quality time with them.
And, Calvin really enjoyed swinging with me today.
Usually he doesn't want that.
He wants to do it himself.
But today, I loved sitting on the swing till my butt
was numb swinging him.
- He just like laid in on you, snuggled--
- He was loving on me.
- And he would not let go of that football.
- No, he won't.
And Jackson, he loved playing the game.
He loved bingo.
And then the rest of the time he wanted nothing to do
with anyone but his cousins, which was perfect.
You know, he just wanted to play.
- Oh, him and Boston were loving life today.
- Which is interesting, because usually him and Boston,
sometimes--
- Yeah, they clash a little bit.
- Butt heads.
- And Jackson wants to play with Cody.
But, I finally fell like Jackson and Boston have realized
that they're like--
- They're friends.
- We can be friends!
We like the same things! - They held hands
on the walk. - It was so cute.
- I'm grateful for a lot of things.
I'm grateful that we were able to go to another part
of the world, and see how a whole other part of the world
lives, it makes me grateful for what I have here.
I'm grateful for what we have.
I'm grateful for my family.
I'm grateful for a roof over our head.
My mom said she was grateful that our family got together
and spent all day together.
She's like, some families don't have that.
Some families they can't.
Some families, they don't want to.
Or, like, I'm grateful for that.
I'm grateful to see my friends spend time with their family.
- Yeah, like it's fun to have our family get together and--
- It was enjoyable seeing my siblings and having pie,
and Aunt Linda was the life of the party, Aunt Linda
we love being with you.
- She was so sweet.
Everyone who walked through the front door, she was there
to greet them.
And she gave them a big hug.
She was very tender.
She was excited to have a party.
It was fun.
I mean, there are so many things I'm grateful for too,
and it's while we were in China.
So, speaking of China, I'm gonna make my sermon pretty
quick here.
While we were in China, we met Richie and Natalie Norton.
Natalie was talking about like, radical gratitude.
Being grateful for some things that you normally wouldn't
be grateful for, because you haven't seen what the gratitude
is yet.
She lost her phone on the trip, and she's like, I'm grateful
I lost my phone because I wouldn't have experienced it
the same way I did.
I would have been too drawn into my phone, and I would
have missed things.
So I want to try and have--
- Takes things and completely spins it.
Who would ever say that?
She was sad of course.
She was sad she lost pictures, she was sad, you know
it's work to get more stuff on a new phone,
and it's money, but she really tries and takes every
situation, every situation--
- And finds something to be grateful for.
And I think that's a wonderful skill to develop, and I'm
going to work on developing that skill.
I think one thing that is hard for us, is to be grateful
for the trials that we go through.
Because, while we're going through them, it's difficult
and it's hard, but when we are done going through them,
and we overcome them, we can see the lessons we've learned.
So I'm grateful for the trials that we go through,
because of the lessons that we will learn and have learned.
- And that's with anything, anything.
- I'm grateful that we went to China, and were able
to experience the culture because we never have before,
and I thought it was wonderful.
And it made me grateful for things over in China,
and things over in here.
I'm grateful for obviously our family and our kids,
I love them.
I'm grateful for the opportunities that we have here,
right here, talking to you.
I'm grateful for this opportunity.
And for everyone.
And I hope we express our gratitude enough, and I hope you
know the things we are grateful for, and I hope we talk
about them a lot, because we are grateful for them.
- Something that Ritchie said too,
that I'll wrap up with is,
it was cool to be in China, to be on the other end
of the world, and they didn't un--
Some people didn't understand us, and we didn't understand
them, but through our phones we could talk into an app,
and it'd translate it to them, and then they'd talk,
and it'd translate it to us.
That was so cool, 'cause there's nothing different
about us, like, we,
and it was a wonderful experience to do that.
And see the other person light up and laugh when like,
we just weren't understanding each other but we were trying
to, like, it was a different experience and I loved it.
And I grew from it, and I'm grateful for it.
And we met some wonderful people there.
Thank you guys so much for watching our Thanksgiving
family special, and our boys are in bed.
- Penny is asleep.
She, oh my gosh, if anyone is grateful for today,
I think Penny was.
- She unlimited amount of hands on her back rubbing her.
She loved it.
- She was the best.
- Thanks guys.
- We'll see you tomorrow, bye!
I love you.
- Gotta get some rest.
- Let's go to sleep!