Thanksgiving 2012

We started off the break by playing with the Waldron cousins for a couple of hours on Wednesday.  Everyone had so much fun together.  

It was really nice to have cousin time to distract me because DAVID arrived late that night and the day dragged on FOREVER for me...

Boys 'sword' fighting:

Girls all accessorized & watching the 'sword fight':

 Thanksgiving Day:

The day started out with a run for some and a Turkey Bowl for others.

Then we all met up for family pictures!

David showed up like this just to get a laugh out of his mom, it totally worked. This is so typical David, I love it!

I won't post any of the actual pictures because most of us are using them for Christmas cards & such, but I got some cute & funny shots of everyone during the process.

Ky got in trouble for something or other - these two have some really really long stand-offs...it's actually pretty hard for me not to laugh because they are both so stubborn.

 Aunt Jessie entertaining kids during the last bit of meal prep:

Lilia LOVES Uncle Benj:

And this girl is such a Daddy's girl, 

Another one of David's endless jokes.  Everyone went outside to check out Chris's welding job on their Jeep and David set one of Marie's twins out on the porch so she could see too:

 Thanksgiving night we planned our cruise for next May!!!  Some people got a little exhausted from all the talking and decision-making: 

 We had a lot of people packed into one house.  It was fun to see all the random sleeping positions:

In-laws & kids hanging out:

 I didn't get ANY pictures with the Thomas family in them, but all 5 of them were there!!!  Sunday was our last day of cousins.  Everyone was pretty tired after all of the fun family time:

The two Dayton cousins added this year, Lilia & Matthew:

We loved seeing everyone & I loved having David here for a couple of days!!!