More Thanksgiving smiles

All of our children joined us for Thanksgiving this year.
We were all together except for our grandson, Justin, who
is on a mission in Guatemala.
With 23 of us together it was a busy, chaotic, wonderful time.
It was a lot of work and a lot of fun.... full of smiles.
...
All the kids are gone now... but this big old house is still ringing
with their laughter... and the warmth of their smiles.
Let me share some of those smiles with you.

We were smiling when we put one turkey in the oven....

...and one turkey in Ernie's smoker....

We were smiling even more when they were done.

The time in between starting our dinner.... and joining together to
give thanks for it and ask God's blessing upon it...
we spent a wonderful day which was full of smiles.

Ellie told Grampy how much she was enjoying her first
Thanksgiving.

Grandkiddos shared smiles in the jacuzzi....

...and with the Wii game....

...There were karaoke smiles....

...and cousin dress up... and...

...Dance recital smiles...

The guys enjoyed a paint ball fight that morn
and front yard football game that afternoon.

Everyone played from the 1 year olds... to Grampy.
(However, maybe Grampy shouldn't have.
On my next post I'll show you the results of Grampy's football spurt.)

Getting all the grandkiddos together for our traditional
picture by the scarecrow didn't make everyone smile...

...but it did me!
As you can see.... we had a busy day.... full of smiles

as the odor of turkey's cooking filled the house and yard...
... and we waited for our feast of Thanksgiving to be ready.
I will share more of our Thanksgiving smiles with you
on my next post.
I am smiling just from the memory.

I hope that you have sweet memories that are bringing you smiles too.
Have a great week.