Fun with the Family

This year we stayed home and spent Thanksgiving with Steven's family. There usually would have only been 10 of us, but this year, Steven's oldest brother and his family came down, so there were 20 of us. Our niece and her husband came down the night before with their daughter (she is 3 weeks younger than Emma), so we took Emma over so the two of them could play. They had a great time!!! Emma could hardly wait to get back over there the next day so they could pick up where they had left off.

Here are a few pictures from Thanksgiving Day.

Emmaline loves to help me cook, so I gave her the job of mashing and stirring the sweet potatoes. She said is was "really hard", but she worked hard at it and did a great job.

I guess all that hard work wore her out. By the time we got to Grandma & Grandpa's house, it didn't take long for her to go to sleep.

On the plus side, since she was asleep (along with her cousin), and the food was all ready, we went ahead and ate. I actually was able to eat my entire meal uninterrupted. I just knew that she was going to wake up, so I have to admit, I ate a little to fast. Oops!

After we ate and got things cleaned up, the kids woke up and we set up their little table so they could eat. Then we opened the door and let them run. After they wore themselves out, we made them stop so we could get some pictures.

Three very happy little cousins. Emmaline, Leah & Ethan.

I had the best time watching these two together. They were so happy to just be around each other. I wish we lived closer so they could spend more time together.
Since this was the first time in a long time that we were all together, we took advantage of it and asked the neighbor to come over and take our picture.

Our family.