Thanksgiving 2011

I hope you all had as nice a Thanksgiving Day as we all did. There is always alot of prep for these kinds of days but always worth it in the end to be able to relax and enjoy everyone together. Our little Grandson Bode with his turkey hat he made at his daycare!

My Dad had a wonderful prayer for us and time to fix plates! Everyone brought a dish to share so we had more than any family could hope for!

Bruce and Vickie ( Jamie's parents) stopped by for a visit in the morning so we enjoyed a bit of time with them talking and eating the wonderful pumpkin bread they brought. They have a new grandson in Brazil that is just a week old so we had lots to catch up on! I hear Elijah is doing wonderful! Another thing to be thankful for this day! A healthy well loved baby into this world!

Gene brought pies ( always so grateful, one less thing to think about when prepping everything!)
Gene enjoying his feast!

My Sister Marcy and husband Vince...Bode enjoying his thanksgiving feast!

Grammy's sweetheart!
We all got to visit with Jeremy and Jamie and Noah in Mississippi!
MaryBeth with Grandma and Aunt Marcy enjoying my parents anniversary book. It was wonderful to have the day to relax and do things like this. With 6 reclining seats in my family room, there were alot of naps while the games were on!
Wonderful memories of a great Thanksgiving Day!

End of a fun visit

Well our very busy fun filled Thanksgiving holiday has come to an end. Jeremy and Jamie left to go home yesterday afternoon and my text late last night from them said they'd arrived safely back into Columbus Miss. via Birmingham Alabama with a 2 hour drive behind them. We sure had fun while they were here with so many fun meals, lots of joint time spent with Jamie's family, many trips to the baby store and on and on. I had a few random photo's yet from their visit that were fun to share. Here is little Bode one night when we were at Rustlers Roost. Chris and MB hosted us all for a little cocktail party at their house, lots of fun appetizers out on the patio.
Here is Jamie and her sister Stephanie the last night they were here while we were at Oregano's. Stephanie and her hubby will be in Az. yet until Christmas when they head back to Brazil.
And last but not least, here we are at the Tumbleweed tree in Chandler. They were still putting the finishing touches on it so it was kind of fun to see what it takes to put that together.

So another visit is over, and we will miss our Mississippi kids. I'm sure they are happy to be home with the dogs and back to work today too. Jamie will be back to work at both her OT jobs and the next time we see her little BS( baby schuld) should be making more of an appearance! Jeremy should be back on flying status since his eye surgery soon so life is getting back to normal all around. I worked yesterday and will use the rest of today to to start getting out Christmas decorations and see if I can get the house totally turned upside down!

Thanksgiving 2010

We had such a fun Thanksgiving celebration this year. A house full of people, food everywhere, lots of visiting and time spent together! Here is Amy fixing up the rolls she brought.

Here is Gene with little Bode Eugene

MB, Amy and Jamie with Bode ready to break out more of the pies!

Aiden and Garrett checking out the little car surprises in their table treat boxes

Marcy, MB and Bode with Delores

Amy, Jamie and MB

Chris and Bode

Jeremy and Amy with Grandpa

Jeremy with my Dad

Ken and the happy Bode

It was a beautiful day outside so lots ate and drank and visited out on the patio

Ken and Bode and Chris

Here is Alissa with her dessert

We got a photo of my folks with their Great Grands that were here

Jamie's youngest sister Christa here from college back east

It was great having the Ciotta family all here!

Uncle Jeremy and Bode

Time for a few games

The Ciotta girls all together, Stephanie, Jamie, Christa and Danielle

The big girls got to play games too!

We missed Vickie joining us today due to illness but here is Bruce with his Ciotta gang.

We had a great day together blending lots of family's, Our family, a few of my sisters family, both our parents,Jamie's family, a few of MB's, and we are thankful for them all!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

My parents came over this week to help me get some things ready for Thanksgiving dinner. We have a crowd coming, 25-30 so it'll be lots of fun. We moved tables, rolled silverware, had one turkey in the oven so Mom helped me pick it all off the bones. It was great to spend the morning with them and have help with the preparation. We decided when we finished at noon to head out and find a bowl of soup somewhere and then went to Kirklands for some Christmas shopping, that was fun since there are always neat things at that store. So I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving, time with your families and belly's full! Jeremy and Jamie arrive thanksgiving day so our family will all be together (YEAH) so we'll be waiting for their arrival along with Jamie's entire family that will be here to join us. I have a neat quote in my house that a friend gave me and I hope it's true for all of you..........Being with those you love is enough! Happy Thanksgiving everyone!