Pre-Thanksgiving Madness

We gathered on Wednesday with all the DeMartini cousins for a sort of Thanksgiving party.  We wanted to be together, we wanted to do something fun, and we wanted to be celebrating Thanksgiving somehow.  So we did several crafts with the children and then had a lovely meal.

It is always so much fun when all the children are together, and it is always chaotic madness.  There are so many of them, they are mostly still very young, and they are all noisy.  All of them.  Pandemonium ensued.  But it was fun.  We colored letters and made a "Give Thanks" table decoration, we assembled cupcake turkeys that hardly looked like turkeys at all, and we made pilgrim hats.  Dinner afterward was very tasty: surf and turf (steak and crab), salad, fruit, rolls.  We ate the sort-of turkey cupcakes for dessert.  It was a delightful afternoon and evening.

Brandt is doing a daring trick on the wooden motorcycle.

Isn't our sign so cute?  I love it!

Blythe and Brandt decorating their turkeys.

 

The end result.

Not so turkey looking.

Practically all the children in their pilgrim hats.  

Luke refused to be in the picture; he was hiding behind a chair.

Lyla (floating in mid-air), Griffin, Crew, Makenna, Ava, Blythe, Brandt, Blake holding Collin

Blythe loves Lyla.  She always wants to hold her.

I'm pretty sure Lyla doesn't feel the same way.

My boys in pilgrim hats.