Thanksgiving 2014

Holidays = family. When you have a family of 8, it is inevitable that you won't all be together, but you make the most of who is able to come. As per our usual tradition, we headed up to my Grandparents home for Thanksgiving.

All of us don't fit in one car, so we had to take two, and my car challenged the other car to a sing-off. We won. 

We got up to the cabin and had a fun time just hanging out. 

Helping make food -with grandma telling Ricky she needs to be more aggressive with the salt shaker.

The weather was absolutely amazing. It felt good to hang out in the sun. 

Sisters!

And with the parentals!

Having family around means photo time. Especially when you look as great as all of us.

Grandma had us get artsy with the pine cones and juniper branches. I think our tablescapes turned out quite nicely.  I had to include the picture of Max sitting by himself at the "kids table." 

I was fairly interested in the fact that Snapchat had a thanksgiving sticker. 

We didn't do much hiking like we used to because I'm fat and old, but mostly lazy. And if there is one lazy holiday all year, it is probably Thanksgiving. 

Taking pictures from the porch.

We went for a small walk at sunset. 

Sunsets up at the cabin have always been pretty breathtaking. 

I remember when I was younger I would think that the clouds in the valley looked like the ocean. That would be pretty amazing if it was.

Cass and Max hanging out on a rock.

The cabin. 

Other side of the house, with the tiniest crescent moon. 

After the sunset we helped Grandpa haul all the Christmas boxes up to the house. Pretty easy task when you have a bunch of grandkids hanging around. 

We put together the tree and decorated the house. 

Oh yeah, and somewhere in there we had pie.

Delicious, delicious pie. Maybe the best part of Thanksgiving.

Mom went a little overboard and bought two huge costco pies and made a chocolate french silk pie, and a peanut butter pie. We also had a rhubarb pie and a pecan pie, and I made a pumpkin gingersnap cheesecake. They were all delicious, and we had so much left over that everyone got to take at least one slice home!