Thanksgiving!

We had a fun Thanksgiving this year. All the Salanoa side came!  Minus Helene and Tini.  They were going to come, but last minute had to cancel.  However, everyone else made it.  We were worried out house would be too small, but it all worked out.  Tj, Dora, Yaya, and Adonis came in November 18th late in the evening.  James, Cindy, Emjae, Julie and Samuel came in the 19th in the afternoon.  And mom and Lu came in on the 26th at about 3 in the morning.  Monty had finals that week and the kids and I had school so the real vacation didn't begin till after school on the 20th, but we had a good time.  We did a lot of eating and played a lot of scrabble and Monopoly Go.

Cousins were happy to be together again

Adults were happy to be fed

And Samuel was happy to have a cozy aunty to sleep on.  It was so sweet to watch him just crawl into her lap and within a matter of minutes he was out!

I now know where the boys get their good looks and need to pose

For Thanksgiving we decided to go to the zoo.  We had planned to go to the zoo because we were going to wait to have dinner then Helene and Tini came, and didn't want to change plans.  It proved to be a great day to go to the zoo.  It was practically empty!

It was the first time Yaya had been to a zoo!

TJ enjoying the pengins!

Trey enjoying the aquarium. 

Makai resting with the gorilla

Later resting with our gorilla

Kids are go cute when they are sleeping

We also ate a lot.  Twice we ate out.  I've not sure how the restaurants felt when they saw us all walk in.

Nana and Lu with all the grandkids

Saturday we had our Thanksgiving.  It was perfect. 

Thankgiving 2017.  Thanks for coming everyone.

No one left hungry.

We also went to the botanical gardens one day and took everyone to the Trail Center at winter quarters and looked at all the gingerbreads for the holidays as well. 

Sweet moment!

Samuel saying he didn't want to leave

Till next time!

Fun time was had by all.

TJ and his family left a day after everyone else so we took them to the one other fun thing to do in Omaha in the winter.  The ferris wheel in a Scheels.  A first for Yaya again.   

We got everyone get on.  We may or may not have broken it, but they had to call someone over to look at it after we all rode it. ???  

Memorable events from the trip:  James really wanted Sushi, but Cindy doesn't like it so we never got any.  The night they left we went to get Sushi, but it wasn't good so James got the final laugh.  

TJ was on some diet during the trip so he wouldn't eat bread, but he would eat 2 honey buns every night.  That was kinda funny.  Noble effort.  He did go to the gym a few times during the trip which was more than any of the rest of us went.  

Cindy brought a SCRABBLE bible.  That girl is serious about her scrabble and she usually always wins too.  

James and Monty both left the football game on Thanksgiving with limps.  But the Turkey bowl was loads of fun so they would both do it again.  

We never went to bed before 2am at least. 

Lu wore his headphones the entire trip!  Not sure what he listens to, but he listens to it all the time!

A very memorable Thanksgiving!