Thanksgiving Day 2011

We celebrated Thanksgiving at my grandfather's house as always and rented the same house again this year that we did last year! I LOVE Thanksgiving - it is my absolute favorite holiday! I love getting a chance to see my cousins, aunts, uncles, well, you get the idea:) We arrived mid/late afternoon on Wednesday and my parents came over to help watch the kids and brought some groceries while we got unloaded and went to pick up dinner. Ahhh... so nice to have help after an EIGHT hour drive!

Thursday morning we woke up to a beautiful, chilly morning and took the opportunity to do some letterboxing(at S's request as she remembered doing it last year) and explored the downtown area and waterfront! There is a new history center right on the marina and they have built awesome piers out into the water and kids' pirate ship playground that was a total hit with both kids(notice S's best pirate face in one of the pictures below!).

We arrived at Papa's house before the crowd so we could get some pictures and just hang out some before the craziness started! This is actually the smallest group at Thanksgiving that I can remember with 3 families totaling 13 people were not able to make it. We missed them, but still enjoyed the relatives that were there!! S had a blast playing with Kyle and Jack and C-man had his own buddies, Dylan and Bo to pal around with! So much fun to have cousins the same age!