Fabulous Family!

This Thanksgiving, we took advantage of being close enough to drive up to my brother's house. We went, we stayed, we overindulged. We had a great time! Out kids got along nicely, I thoroughly enjoyed visiting with my sister-in-law, Kera and it was a really wonderful Thanksgiving. We hung out a few days and parted sadly. I am so glad we live close enough to do it again!

I will not bore you with all the things I am thankful for, but they are many. I will however, bore you with the pictures. Be happy; I have many, many more things I'm grateful for than I have pictures here!

With 4 adults and 11 children in the house, it was only minorly distressing that the dishwasher was broken. Kera put my kids to work with hers and I was amazed at how well they dealt with the mountains of dishes each day. Amazed, I say!

Hanging out, waiting for the feast.

Pre-turkey gobbling.

The wait was worth it, Thanksgiving dinner was divine.

And the pie..... ahhh, the pie!

Charlotte had her own way to eat it. Or maybe she just wanted a chocolate moisturizer?

How many children are in this tree?!! There are at least 4 in there. Unfortunately, in her quest to the top, Callie fell down and broke her crown. Well, she did fall from the very top and she did bonk her head. she's a tough cookie. She only fell because a branch broke.

Check it out, even Joshua was up in the tree!

Marian and Aaron played really well together. They were so cute on the front lawn doing whatever building project they were doing.

Something about Marian and trees.....

Joshua claimed he was so bored he didn't have anything to do except this.

The little kids never got bored! Check out how much fun a trampoline can be!

And I am at a loss to explain this. But I was in hysterics as I took the picture!

The DS was quite the entertainer. The kids were pretty good at sharing.

Oh yeah! We broke out the Apples to Apples and had a good time playing. I might have won had I not looked down at my pile and wondered why on earth I had cards there. I put them back with the other cards before realizing they had been MY cards! Oops.

We went out to the park and ran the kids around to settle the pie.

Not only do I love Rylee's face in this picture, I love that you can see Marian in the top corner.

Yep, she made it up there. and back down.

Delaney had fun. She always does!

Oh, and I had to get a shot of the pies. This was only half. There were 3 chocolate truffle, 4 pumpkin, 2 pecan, 2 apple, 1 each of lemon meringue, banana cream and blueberry. Oh, the deliciousness!