Thanksgiving 2012 with the Zollinger's

We were so thrilled when Tim's sister, Tara called and asked what we were doing for Thanksgiving and they said they wanted to come out and spend it with us.  I can't remember the last time we had Thanksgiving with them.  We had a great time. 

Tim prepping the turkey. 

 Pumpkin, Choc. chip muffins for breakfast.  Yummy!

 The girls made these cute little pilgrim hats and place mats, of course.

 The finished product

 Waiting patiently for dinner.

 Modeling while waiting for turkey.

 Making a toast!

 What a good looking group!

 After dinner Tara was so on the ball she suggested we take pictures for Christmas cards.  I think this is the one they used.

 Our choice!

 I wanted to use this one but the girls wouldn't have it so I'll just debut it here.

 Had to capture the matchy matchy outfits.  Look how cute they are.

 The day after Thanksgiving Tim and Scott took the bigger kids out shooting.  They had so much fun.  The word in the desert is that Livie is a pretty good shot.

Alexa

 Scott and Olivia

 Liv

 Caleb

 Noah and Livie

 Scott and Caleb

 The VB's

 One night these girls convinced the boy cousins to a challenge of Just Dance on the Wii.  The nice hair piece Alexa is wearing was only warn by the winner of each dance.

 Alexa got to wear it a couple of times (except when I played.)

 They were all so cute I could have watched all night.

 One last night of fun.  My friend, Krissy had borrowed all of our old pool noodles for a game she played with her family at a reunion.  It sounded so fun so I borrowed them back for the kids to play.  The noodles are cut down for swords and then you take a saltine cracker and dental floss and tie it to your belt loop.  The idea is to use your noodle and break the crackers of all the others.  The one with the most cracker left wins.  I think they ended up with their own version towards the end.  I love when kids go out and play like this - they have to come up with their own rules as they go and monitor all themselves.  I think they all had fun.

Alexa with her game face on.

 Getting ready for the game.  The crackers weren't the easiest to tie on.

 Noah

 Action shot.

We had a lot of fun and Tim got to enjoy oodles of football with people who actually wanted to watch with him.  The only thing I didn't get on camera was Caleb roller blading.  I think he loved it.

Hope we can do it again sometime, Zollinger's.