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| We had a houseful of family for Thanksgiving and it was wonderful! We wish all of our family could have been there, but where would we have put everyone? We love having as many as we can get and we would have squished them all in! It's amazing how big our family is getting and they are such amazing people--everyone of them! From the wee folks to the grownup folks, we love them all so much! Here's Hannah playing with her nieces, Mia, Ellie, and Sophie! We can't believe that we have so many girls in our lives now. What a switch from having 9 sons and 2 daughters to having 12 granddaughters and 3 grandsons! Ryan and Ali will be adding granddaughter 13 any day now! |
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| There's always a puzzle going and lots of relaxing on the big comfy couch! |
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| Even though Paul and Joni didn't stay at the house with us, they only live 5 minutes away so they came over and hung out with us a lot! Justin, Mega, and Mia came up from Texas and we got them for a week! It was cool! |
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| Mega working hard on the puzzle |
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| Fun on the floor with the little ones! |
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| It's amazing how much little babies are into electronics!! They probably know how to use computers and cell phones better than Grandma! |
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| When Mike and I bought this year's puzzle, we had no idea it was going to be sooo hard! It took a lot of patience and perseverance to tackle this baby! |
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| Grandma reading with Mia and Ellie |
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| Grandpa and Sophie watching Baby Einstein |
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| Sweet babies! |
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| Sweet smiles! |
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| Erin's family came to stay with them for the holidays and they came up for the turkey bowl. Joel played and the others watched. It was also Erin's birthday on Thanksgiving! Happy Birthday, Erin! |
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| Todd and Sophie |
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| Todd getting a little baby hungry himself?? So cute with Sophie. |
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| Our Thanksgiving Feast! We have so much to be thankful for. |
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| Ellie enjoying her turkey feast. |
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| We love our family very much! |
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| Sohpie enjoying some sweet potatoes. |
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| Our pies were divine! From left to right--homemade apple pie by Joni, homemade pumpkin cheesecake (Cheesecake Factory recipe) by Ali, and homemade pumpkin pie by Hannah--the little one in the back is Marie Callendar's Razzleberry Pie. Everyone loved all of the pies. They were very delicious! |
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| Fun to see Eric and Hannah playing Christmas duet's. |
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| Since the gang wasn't going to be here for Christmas, we opened some gifts early! Mia was so happy with her new baby doll! |
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| Brown eyed girls! |
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| All wrapped up for Christmas! |
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| We gave all of our kids these beautiful Christmas song books! |
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| Joni helped me make these great Griffith letter pictures! It was a fun project we worked on together. |
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| The finished puzzle! |
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| The finished puzzle on the living room floor after I tried to move the card table with it on it!! Sad! |
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| Cute family picture of Tyler, Jaimee, and Sophie |
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| We had to do a little black Friday shopping! Here we are at Kohl's |
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| We finished off our shopping spree with a lunch trip to Rumbi's. The guys joined us for a delicious lunch! Our Thanksgiving was a lot of fun! It was sad to see everyone go home!! |
5 comments:
I just about cried about the puzzle. Was it able to be saved? Love those Griffith letter pictures. So cool! You have inspired me.... Looks like it was a great time!!
How fun! Glad that you could all be together, the extra babies make it even more exciting. Thanks for sharing!
It really looks like a great time! I'm sure everyone loved the songbooks and the family name photos in frame - it looks like a warm and loving holiday!
melecia
Wow, lots of pics, glad you got so many because we got ZERO. Thanks for inviting us over this year.
Paul
wow what a family glad it was so fun.
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