We were lucky enough to celebrate/eat at TWO Thanksgiving dinners this year.
My dad's side of the family, the Thompsons, reserved a church building the Saturday before Thanksgiving in which we could hold our festivities. I mostly just got pictures of the "crowd"--around 90 people in all. My grandpa had old home videos playing in the background for people to watch and reminisce at their leisure. They also had the Utah football game on in one of the classrooms, so Dan was a happy camper.
See if you recognize anyone in these pictures. :)
The kids had a blast having so much room to run around.
The day before Thanksgiving, Ben woke up with a goopy eye. Great! He'd had a cold for a while, so it turns out he had pink eye and an ear infection. Thank heavens for antibiotics!
Thanksgiving day we went to Dan's parent's place in Mantua with all but two of Dan's siblings and one of Dan's aunts and her family.
The lovely table BEFORE
AFTER- Everyone was well fed! (Editors note: Dan was apparently quite stuffed)
Cute favors/name cards
The sleeping after the turkey.
Some of the ladies
More sleeping/relaxing
The two handsome babies present. This was about as close as we let them get to each other since we didn't want to infect baby Eli.
Pretty happy at the moment for being so sick.
McKenna and cousin Russell watching Super Why on uncle David's phone.
I was such a great weekend, sick baby and all. We recognize and are grateful that we are SO blessed both temporally and spiritually. Life is wonderful!
6 comments:
I recognized everyone in the first set! I still totally wish our family (either side!) had somewhere like Mantua to escape to.
Aw! I do recognize some people in those pictures, but not all of them... I need to get out there more often apparently :)
wow what a great Thanksgiving to remember for you and your kids and husband!! LOVE the pictures
I like that you did an after pictures of the food table. That is so funny.
What a great idea to use the church! We always have crammed our gazillion family members into our homes and it's utter chaos (fun, though). Next year we might have to give that a try. :)
What awesome Thanksgiving gatherings. Love the pictures. So Great! Love you.
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