shenanigans

For those of you who don’t know my family or haven’t heard me talk about them…here is an insight into our CRAZY dynamics.  My dad’s birthday was this past weekend and because it coincided with the long Memorial Day weekend, we all (minus Ben (my little brother) and his family, they’re in Europe and excused for missing it) converged on my sister’s NEW house in Knoxville for the weekend.  My parents drove in from southern Maryland on Friday. Barb and I drove down from Kentucky on Saturday.  And Nicole (my little sister) drove up from Atlanta Saturday as well. 

When my family gets together, there is one guarantee…lots of fun and laughter will be had by all.  This weekend was no exception.

A little background…my lovely family has a tradition of getting gag gifts for each other.  We are really just a bunch of pranksters.  This tradition is usually reserved for Christmas, but this weekend an exception was made for my dad. 

My mother, who is the ring leader, planned this prank weeks ago and had everything set.  She went to the store and had an empty cardboard box decorated like a cake.  Let me tell you…it looked real!  They did a great job.  After she brought it home, she was very careful to keep it hidden.  She even took it to the car and covered it up so my dad wouldn’t see it before the time was right.  Little did we know, he saw it in the back seat when he was packing up the car and said he thought to himself “AWWWW how nice, she bought a cake for my birthday”.  He deduced it was supposed to be a SURPRISE, so he didn’t mention anything to my mom. 

Sooo…Saturday night, we pull out the “cake” and present it to him…candles and all (don’t ask me how my wife and sister got those candles to stand up on that damn box). 

He did his part and acted all surprised.  We brought out the plates and handed him a knife…

Note: this is a large video…about 57 meg…sorry it’s so large, but boy is it worth it.

You have to watch this video to get the full appreciation. 

Enjoy.