Florida Thanksgiving

Karen and Joe had 12 for Thanksgiving in Plant City, and, of course, Joey makes 13. Karen is at top right and her maid of honor, Denise is the young lady in the lower left.

Joey is loving solids and he sat at table in his high chair and enjoyed his sweet potato. From the expression on his face one might think they had been laced with rum or something similar.

I will try to post some of our house pictures as Toni requested and also more of Joey.

Pittsburgh Thanksgiving

We were small but mighty in the 'burgh this Thanksgiving. I am including a photo of Helen's plate so that you can all see that we made sure that she ate. Rick was the picture taker, so he did not make any of the pics. We have had a wonderful visit. Rick is safely back in Boston and tomorrow Fred and Helen drive to Jeff and Fran's where Fred will search for the elusive white-tailed deer and Helen will have her boys to look after!

This is our table. No people. Started out to be 2, then 5, and ended up 3. Too busy eating & forgot pics at dinner. It was delicious though.
Some of you know that Chloe was very sick this past week & had to see a doctor & go to Chlidren's Hospital several times for I.V fluids. Diagnosis was viral tonsilitis. She's better now, but Thanksgiving was not much of a celebration for them. Felt bad that they are so far away & none of us close to help.
Haven't done this for so long (sorry) Will try to do better.
Hello to everybody & I hope you had a happy Thanksgiving.
Love Sheila & Les

We didn't do so well on the pics this year. Total losers, I know!! We were never all around the table all day except to play a game and by then no one was thinking of pics.

But here are our 3 little Iowa turkeys, Nathan, Madeline, and Andrew, looking only slightly worse for wear.

Aunt Paula, Grandma could not stop going on about your beautiful house and the fabulous decorator you are. Hope you are settling in well. Could you take some pics so we could see too?

She also promised to say hi to the bobcats for me at your place, Aunt Fran and Uncle Jeff. Have you seen much of them? Love the pics of your house we have already seen. Do you feel all settled in now?

Hope everyone's Thanksgiving was great. Aunt Sheila/Uncle Les, I heard you had some guests this year. Did you have a nice day?

Miss you all. The holidays just make me miss you MORE!

Love,

Toni

Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!

Hi All!

Don't have any pics here at my office to post today, but wanted to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving! Wish we were all going to eat at the same (huge) table!

We have had a busy fall here in Iowa. On the heels of the tragic spring and short summer we had, everyone here is bracing themselves for a winter that we are dreading. You can go anywhere, talk to anyone who lives here and people are overwhelmed already with worrying about what this winter will bring (the last one was the worst in many years!).

Okay enough about the weather - not sure where that came from!

The Hostetlers in Colorado will not be with us this year for Thanksgiving. Lorrie's pregnancy is going well. She's due next month - we may have a Christmas baby on our hands! Anyway, we'll spend Thanksgiving Day at Mom and Dad's (Ted & Sally). Carrie, Matt, and the kids will be there as well. No plans except eat, eat, eat (and maybe slip into a food coma for a while)!

What are you all doing? Where will you be? Let's post some pics of everyone at table like we did last year. It's fun to be able to see everyone celebrating.

So much to be thankful for this year again! As for me, top on my list are my family, my job, improved health, and all God's blessings that I tend to take for granted too often. I'm also thankful for my wonderful memories of you all as I was growing up. Those memories now seem to me to be from someone else's life.

Does anyone remember if we ever spent a Thanksgiving at the river??????

Love to all,
Toni

been a while

We have finally wrapped up our summer of pretending to farmers and canning season is officially over...the canners are put away, every last jar (including the additional 5 dozen I had to purchase) is full, my upright freezer is maxed out.

October is our favorite month around here and we try to celebrate it all month long.