Monday, November 26, 2007

Happy BELATED Thanksgiving!

So I was lucky enough to start my Thanksgiving Holiday on the Tuesday before! My sister Satya, I and all six of our kids loaded up in her car and drove up to Taylor, where my parents live! We Met our youngest sister there and our older sister and her family, live just down the street from my Mom & Dad. And all our husbands drove up together Wednesday after work!

Trenton & Brodee (Satya's boy)(These boys are 2 days apart)

Satya's Girls


Brooklyn, It was a lot colder than we were planning!


We went from 80 degrees to 30 degrees!

Anna's girls w/Brooklyn

We had a great time! My mom and I decided to tackle the Turkey this year! It was a first for both of us. (usually we leave the turkey to the men.) Well, being the picky eater I am, I couldn't just cook a dry tasteless turkey, so I searched for a good recipe to test our skills. We ended up soaking the turkey in a maple brine and then we used a recipe that suggested to cook the turkey, breast-side down... It proved to be a winning recipe and we even had moist white meat. The only bad part was that we didn't have many leftovers!

Later that week we had a graham cracker house contest!

family against family!

But every one's turned out so unique that we decided to forget the contest and we let the kids eat them.

we spent the evenings with a family favorite of "scum bucket." We ended up playing this card game into all hours of the night, almost every night!

As much fun as our vacation was... I'm very glad to be back in warm weather and a normal routine.

Happy Thanksgiving!! and on to Christmas!!!

Oh and
Jessky and Nate were there too! I can't leave them out just because they don't have kids. But we do look forward to their first (baby girl) in March.

5 comments:

Norris Family said...

Looks like you guys had a great Thanksgiving. And Taylor was cold. We were not prepared for the weather either. It was so nice the first few days of the week there we went to the park. So when do you find out what you are having? We are so excited for you.

*Amy * said...

Wow, that is a lot of kids!

Michelle and Javier said...

So cute! I love all the pictures! All you Pember girls have cute kiddos!

kh said...

AHHHHH! That CANNOT be Jessyka! No freakin' way! She's so grown up! AND pregnant! AHHH! Seriously, since when did time fly by? I am still a senior in High School... in my head anyway! hee hee.

WHAT A FUN HOLIDAY! I am with Michelle, your Pember girls have stinkin' ADORABLE kids! Have more, we need cute kids in the world, for my kids to marry... ha ha.

Was Anna camera shy? I miss her so!

Meghan said...

Looks like so much fun - love that your kids have so many CUTE cousins to play with! Miss you guys... tell Anna, Satya and Jessyka hi for me - your parents and Sparky too!