Thanksgiving Weekend

A trip to Grandma Jo's is never complete without a soak in a 7 cousin tub.  This year a guest at the B&B almost joined them ( an 8 year old girl)!  She was staying with her parents and found it much more fun to be with all the cousins.  They were all getting in the tub when I had to put a stop to it because my kids forgot their bathing suits, and that was just going to look bad.  I couldn't quite explain it to the kids, I should have just said "sorry there is no more room in the bath for her."  

Anyway, it was hours of fun!  I got to clean up later. I've never seen a ring around the tub till that day, but I guess that is what you get when you put that many kids in a tub together.  Yeah, Fish's face is not that convincing, but it was hard to get a picture of all the kids.  I'm thinking this might be the last year of this tradition.

For most of my family members (remember I have 5 brothers) Thanksgiving is about: guns, food, and motorcycles.  This year there were more motorcycles than people, how did that happen?  Adam just kept rolling them out of the barn.  It was cracking me up.  The kids loved taking rides with their Uncles, and Dad's.  Thanks to Adam and April for having more "mo mo cycles(S's word)" than they can ride.  And thanks to April for not breaking out the guns in front of my kids.  What a sacrifice!  Below:  Uncle Spencer, Happy 25th Birthday!
April trying to convince the kids to take a ride with her.  Z wasn't going to have it, but S & O liked it.
Cousin love!  These two couldn't get enough of each other.  It was too sweet.  Here is one of the times I found M holding S like a baby.  They are only 3 years apart.  When the cousins left S was really sad, and I'm sure tired, but she cried for quite a while about "missing her cousins."  
It was cold and windy, but the kids had such a good time playing in the back of the truck watching everyone ride by.  I guess it was fun for them to be tall for a change.  I was glad they were out of the road.
I somehow didn't get any pictures of the actual dinner.  It was quite a production.  Noelle was using the upstairs kitchen and I cooked downstairs.  Finally at about 4 it all came together.  For some reason this year the food was the tastiest ever, maybe because I'm pregnant, but I couldn't get enough of it.  I'm going to pay for it at the dr's office tomorrow.  

Other things I didn't get a picture of:  3 kids sleeping in the Harry Potter closet together.  I'm sure that was one hot and sweaty night.  

Also when the adults weren't watching the kids found Grandma's soda's (for customers, we don't let our kids drink that!) and had a Mountain Dew tea party.  Auntie April busted them.  

Lastly, I'm kicking my self for not carrying the camera to the chicken coop.  Grandma has the craziest looking chickens, that let you hold them.  We think it is because their hairdo's are so big they can't see you, and that is why they are so easy to pick up.  The kids could have spent all day in the coop.  If we were zoned for it I'd have chickens in my back yard.

It was such a fun time!  And as always never long enough.  Thanks Mom Dad and siblings!