Colorado Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day - Steve and I, Gabriel, niece Joella, nephew Cayden, sister-in-law Laura, my brother Ryan and my parents, Bob and Rita.

We went to my home, Colorado, for Thanksgiving. We had such a wonderful time! The weather was perfect and looked like this every day. It was so nice to see blue skies and sunshine for six days! We thoroughly enjoyed seeing my family and spending many hours of quality time together. 

One of our favorite activities together was riding our horses. It was Gabriel's first time. Cami was able to join us which was great.

In preparation for Turkey Day, Joella helped me bake pumpkin pie delight. She is so cute!

Taste testers!

Eating the leftover chocolate cream pie!

Thanksgiving was crazy busy but so much fun with 25 relatives all gathering to eat turkey, catch up with each other and most importantly, to entertain the kids.

My cousin Natalie entertained the girls with a spontaneous fashion show, staring my niece Joella, and aided by cousins Amaya and Cadi.

 

My brother wrestled with the boys.

Free time was spent playing piano, reading, playing with cars, digging in the dirt, throwing rocks, wrestling with Uncle Ryan, playing in the trees, and, of course, playing basketball.

Dog pile on Gabriel

Marc and Matthew, do you recognize Gabriel's new coat? He loves it!

Note the football, Cami. :o)

We also had time to go visit our dear friends Gregg and Judy and their daughter Hannah. As is tradition, we dined at Asian Cafe and followed that with a trip to Starbucks then home to play cards late into the night. We ALWAYS have the best time with them and I ALWAYS end up with the hiccups from laughing so hard. We love them dearly!

The highlight of the week was going up to Estes Park on Friday night. We ate Mexican food, ordered hot coco to go and went out to watch the Christmas parade. As we did, it started to snow! It was magical! I loved it!!!

We hope you had a blessed and memorable Thanksgiving as well!