Happy Thanksgiving!

We hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.

For this year, all of Emily's siblings converged in Vancouver.  In preparation for that, Karina helped bake a bunch of yummy cookies.

The cousins from Denver arrived and often, the two boys could be found playing video games together.

On Thanksgiving Day, lots of people went to visit Emily's dad.  In October, he became too frail to get out of bed for more than a few minutes, so people went over to say "hi".

Back at home, there was a lot of wrestling going on, including with our nephew's son.

Our nephew's other son is still a little guy and got lots of attention from people wanting a baby fix.

Karina enjoyed helping to rice the potatoes.

And then it was time to eat.  There was ham, stuffing, turkey, and all the traditional foods.

All the kids filled their plates with food.  Also attending a Thanksgiving for her first time is the au pair who is living with our nephew's family.  She is originally from South Africa.

There were lots of desserts, including cookies and two types of pie.  Also, Karina made caramels from scratch, which were delicious.

The next morning, the two girl cousins were up and helped to make coffee cake for breakfast.  One was drizzled with blueberries and the other with apples.

And then it was time to go to Target!  The girls wanted to see if there were any Black Friday deals to be had.  Elvin took them and it was his first time in a brick and mortars store on Black Friday in over a decade.

The lines were bad at all.  But also, the deals weren't that good either.  While waiting at the cashier, Julia shows off her strength by picking up Karina.

Before coming home, we all stopped at ShareTea for boba.

Before heading home the next day, we had dinner with take out from Gustav's.  Which meant that most of our dinner consisted of cheese fondue.

We hope you had a good Thanksgiving as well.