Thanksgiving Francis Style

My whole family was in the same state for Thanksgiving, so we were almost all here for Thanksgiving.  First time since before my mission.  It was a TON of fun, especially for the kids.  I had a photo of all of the girls in the tub but decided not to put it in - too many perverts out there and I didn't crop good enough - a few boobies were showing :)  So here they are in the giant girl bed.  Gracie didn't last too long with all the talking, but I think it was still fun for them to start out like this.

I think they were all a LITTLE excited to be together!

Gramma and the babies.  Although 6 months apart, Ezzie is almost as big as Sora...My brother makes BIG kids, but then again, we make 'em pretty small :)

Party of the dinner party.  We had about 21 people and LOADS of food.  It was a lot of work and planning, but believe it or not, I didn't even have my "master schedule" like I did last year.  Everyone chipped in and helped.  Aside from the Francis family, we had Vern, Dave & Sharon and Kevin.  Good times and almost enough fancy dishes to go around

Some of the rest of us and a tiny bit of the food, funny that it's all the potato dishes in the picture (2 sweet potato dishes and mashed potatoes)...not sure why I didn't get any pics of the pies, we only had about a million...Jimminy, I totally overestimated how much pie people would eat - wimps! :)

Vern enticing Sora to the bottle - sparkling cider.  I think he may have gotten her lips a little too close to the bottle since she just kept licking them and crying for more :)

Uncle Mark bringing the kids back from the park just in time for Uncle Brian to show us how to make rockets.

The kids LOVED shooting off these rockets.  Gordon (Brian's Father-in-law) let him borrow the rocket launcher.  As you can see in the background the boys were also putting up the Christmas lights :)  Yeah for family to help!  While waiting turns for rockets, the kids also made necklaces.

It was sure a lot of fun.  I tried to spend my time in the kitchen cooking and cleaning to make it a break for all of the families that had to travel to our house, but they still managed to chip in and do a lot which, makes makes me a little sad for them.  I am so grateful for my siblings.  I love them to pieces and feel grateful we could coax our parents into coming :)  The only thing any of wished (well besides Anne wishing she was going shopping like a maniac on Black Friday) was a nice family viewing of the Lynn Francis Family Vacation - oh, I mean National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.  Other than that, it was a weekend full of fun and family and a TON of food, although we did run out of turkey since I forgot to pull the little one out of the freezer - sorry guys.