November 25, 2012
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THREE WONDERFUL DAYS WITH FAMILY
Everyone has gone home and we're back to our too-quiet lifestyle once again. It was another wonderful Thanksgiving with all the family together for three days. The biggest joy for Sam and me is to see how well the cousins, who are within three years of each other, get along and enjoy each other's company. The laughs were many. There was excellent food, fun parlor games, football (both college and the annual family and friends pick-up touch footgame game), shopping and just general hanging-out-together fun.
Guys enjoying a Saturday afternoon football fest.
We have our Christmas with Ken and family at Thanksgiving because we don't see them at Christmas.
I don't know what Richard was saying, but people were hanging on his every word.
One of Catherine's college friends came with her for the Thanksgiving break, and we enjoyed meeting her. She's from China. She thought she was just going to watch us open gifts, but we surprised her with some of her own.
Five of our grandchildren have birthdays around the holidays. David's is the closest to Thanksgiving (he'll be 21 next Friday), so he got the cake and the traditional singing of several birthday songs. And yes, there were other desserts for the rest of us.
Since we didn't have a full family reunion this year, we had the annual taking of the family pictures this weekend. You'll see the whole family in all its splendor on Christmas Day, but to whet your appetite, here is one of the grandkids with the family patriarch and matriarch.
TOMORROW: A surprise gift that was very well received.
