Thanksgiving 2013

Following our usual Thanksgiving tradition, we went to my sister Lorna's house for dinner, preceded by the usual "hurry up and try to take some family photos for Christmas cards before dinner is ready". Unfortunately, the two oldest decided it would be fun to do an "ugly sweater" look that day, while Steve, Alex and I all looked very nicely coordinated. Hence, no Christmas cards from the Lillys for the first time in years. Oh well...

 

Dinner was delicious, and we loved being able to meet my cousin's granddaughter, Norah who came down from Idaho to join us.

Before the Thanksgiving break, I got to go help serve a "Thanksgiving feast" to the first graders. This is my little Native American, apparently deep in meditation.

Our family has the greatest cousins. They made a plan over the Thanksgiving break to carry on the tradition of their childhood and have a "cousins sleepover". We had cousins ranging in age from 6 all the way up to 22. I was so happy, not only to see that as teens and young adults that they still want to hang out together, but that my little Alex, being so much younger, was able to experience a cousin's sleepover as well. It sounds like they had a great time. I sent my camera with Steph, hoping to get some great group pictures, but the camera came back mostly with silly selfies and such.

Over the next few years as these cousins start to get married, maybe they can talk their future spouses into a big joint cousins sleepover. Or maybe that's a bit much to hope for...