This year, we spent our Thanksgiving with Eddie's family in Texas. Although writing this blog entry sounds like we did lots of things, Cyndi and I did very little, choosing instead to just sit around and be pampered. Eddie especially enjoyed sleeping late and getting fed by his folks, while his folks or his brothers baby sat the kids. What a life!
   In Grandpa's backyard this year, there was a bumper crop of pecans, and the cousins enjoyed shelling them. Here is Ariana with Nicholas, Treston and Kristian doing just that.

   All the boy cousins, except Adam, have skateboards. This summer, they all worked hard to teach Aaron how to Ollie, which is simply jumping in the air and somehow getting your board to jump with you. Having perfected this, we went to a skatepark, where Aaron starting jumping off three stairs with his cousins. Here is Aaron about to land one of these tricks.

   Another popular past time is, of course, playing video games. The boys brought their Wii, and the cousins brought their X-Box, and it seems everyone has a Nintendo DS. Here is Trevor, Aaron and Adam playing the X-Box.

   A couple days after Thanksgiving, my cousin Paulie and husband Jimmy have a large get together with lots of food. This year, they managed to collect almost all the cousins on my dad's side of the family. The first picture is of the kids of my cousins. I count seventeen, and I know some are missing. The second photo is of my generation of cousins, and our spouses, with only one cousin and spouse missing. Finally, here is a photo of my dad with most of his surviving siblings, Tia Rosa on the left, Tia Licha on the right(Paulie's mom) and my mom. Tio Jimmy was not there.