Holmes Thanksgiving

I've always enjoyed Thanksgiving.  Family and food - what's not to like?  And this year, it was unseasonably warm so we got to go down to the Sport Court and play shuffleboard which we haven't done as a family in years.  Dan got a good look at just how much smack talk my uncles can do while playing games and how competitive my mom can really be (he's only heard the stories about how she threw the mancala beads at me and still to this day refuses to play with me because she just can't win! hehe) but not before some fun and family - and of course, eating - inside.

Aunt Patti has a princess tent!

Don't come in!

Grandpa Grandpa wants a ball too.

Anything good in Gram's purse? 

Glasses! 

hehe... bookworm

It's time to work off some of our lunch.
Nora is learning proper shuffleboard form from Gram.

Then teaches Daddy everything she learned.

It dawned on me while I was looking through pictures
that this just might be the only picture I have ever seen
of my Uncle Tim without his finger up his nose,
his tongue sticking out, or his hat over his face. 

And guess what... they had a bench swing right
next to the sport court.  

Let There Be Lights

 It's too warm not to take advantage of it.  We dug our outside lights out of the garage and started putting them on the bushes today.  Won't turn them on until after Thanksgiving -- it's a rule -- but we had to get started.

Digging the lights out of the bin.

Look at these, Mom!

All tangled and I can shake it.

Intrigue 

Then he noticed I was taking pictures
so stopped to say, "cheese!"