Fritz Family Thanksgiving 2019

As many of you know (because most of you reading this were actually there–haha!) we met up with my side of the Family for Thanksgiving.  We rented a house in East Peoria, IL that turned out to be a renovated church with a bunch of “themed” bedrooms. It was the perfect space for our gathering because it had plenty of bedrooms and space for the kids to run, plus it had lots of tables and gathering spots for the adults to hang out, and even a game room for the kids to run off even more energy.

This was an exceptionally exciting reunion because I was able to meet my newest nieces for the very first time!  My brother and his wife (Luke & Krista) just adopted a set of 3 sisters (ages: 5, 3 & 1.5 if I’m remembering correctly…) so they officially have 5 kiddos now!  See?  We don’t have the most kids anymore! 😀  The girls were simply charming and fit perfectly into the family–almost as if they had always been a part of it.  And my kids enjoyed playing with all of their cousins.

A memory that stands out from the reunion was our game night.  We always do a white elephant gift exchange with the adults (once the kids are in bed) and then we sometimes play a game or two.  This year we played a version of charades.  It. Was. Hilarious.  Never underestimate the power and joy of laughing together as a family.  Those game nights will continue to be some of my favorite memories with my family.  Well… except the time we played a card game that involved lying and I am TERRIBLE at lying so I was found out right away and that was super frustrating and then I had to sit through the rest of the game for like another hour and had nothing to do since I was already out and then I was crabby because I’m not good at lying, which is a stupid thing to be mad about really…. (deep breath)… what I mean to say is–I learned to steer clear of those kinds of games in the future.  Haha!  😀