Turkey Week!

Thanksgiving Dinner #1.  We were lucky to be able to go to Monticello for an extended family dinner the weekend before Thanksgiving.  Aunt Elizabeth made a fabulous meal, as always, and the kids enjoyed a day of uninterrupted cousin time.  The girls look forward to this dinner every year.  They have second cousins coming out of their ears and they always write and perform a musical play together for the adults after we eat.

Journey and Bethany are best buds.  We got to see Journey's basketball game before the party.  She is a beast.  I think she made 20 out of 32 points for the game.  Later that night, they had a sleepover and I could hardly get Bethany to get in the car to come home the next day.

 Here are the girls with all nine pies right before driving to Grandma's for Thanksgving dinner #2.  The girls each got to choose a pie that they wanted to make with me.  Bethany chose chocolate mint cream.  Amber chose peach.  And Miranda chose lemon meringue.  They were all sinfully good.

And here is the dessert table at Grandma's.  Oh yes!  We take our Thanksgiving desserts quite seriously.

Chad at his third Thanksgiving meal (actually a basketball dinner).  The La Cueva Freshmen have team "bonding" dinners almost every weekend until the end of the season.  Let's hope they get very "bonded" and that the familiarity will translate into great teamwork on the court. :)  We all were pretty excited that Chad made the team.  All of us, that is, except for the girls who are mad that Chad doesn't get to go to preseason baseball training anymore (some weird NM high school sports rule - whatever!) when they had been having a great time hanging out with the Calvert twins when we went to watch.  Oh well!  Basketball season is only 3 1/2 months, ladies.  Hang tight!