Pre-Thanksgiving Thanksgiving, Part I

I’m writing this on Thursday, November 26th at 12:07am… I’ll tell you where we’re at in the present before we travel back a week or two. Currently the entire family is getting over nasty colds. In fact, we were supposed to meet up with Grampa Dave and Grandma Marcia this weekend, but everybody decided it would be best if we all stayed away from each other, given that we’re all so sick! Hope we all feel better soon, and looking forward to seeing you both when we can.

So that’s why this is titled as such, because we had a sort of preliminary T-Day a few weeks ago…. and we do have a lot of people to thank! Grampa Ray, Grandma Barb, Aunt Melanie, Uncle Ben and Cousins Connor and Kaylee all made the trip to come and see us at our humble abode, although you won’t be able to tell, because we only took pictures of the three kids. I’m kidding. Kinda. 😉

The first to arrive were Grandma Barb and Grampa Ray, on November 13th… they took us out for dinner, and Ian showed everybody that the only thing he loves more than ribs, is big piece of cake for dessert! See this image larger.

He dove right in and got as much as we’d let him. See this image larger.

*Ian, you’ve got a little something… on your… yeah right there.* See this image larger.

Anybody remember that movie from the 70’s called “Meteor?” (I’m pretty sure Ian’s eating it in this picture.) See this image larger.