Wishing all a very Happy Thanksgiving.
We leave early tomorrow for a 1st for us...spending Thanksgiving week in Club Med Ixtapa. Not sure if we'll be eating turkey or burritos, all I know for sure is we'll have a wonderful 3 generation vacation.

I hope everyone has a great holiday...sooooo many blessings to count. :hug:

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!!!!

Marcie - your family trip sounds really great. We have friends who have at various times gone to Mexico for TG and they eat lobster burritos. LOL.

We leave tomorrow to go to Richmond where our youngest grandchild will be baptised tomorrow afternoon. From there we head to Asheville where we have rented a house for the week. Kids and spouses and grandkids will all start arriving on Tuesday and Wednesday. Most of us will be there until Sunday, but we will ALL be there Wednesday and Thursday and Friday morning. All 15 of us in one place at one time. Can't wait!!! Agree with Marcie, so many blessings to count.

Hope everyone has a very special Thanksgiving.

Marcie and JoAnn -- have wonderful trips. We'll spend Thanksgiving at our son's in Dallas -- not a long trip from here.

You girls will have a wonderful holiday! Marcie, have a taco with cranberry sauce for me ;)

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving Marcie! My husband and I have spent many Thanksgivings in Mexico. It's a great time to be there. Turkeys were first domesticated there, who knew?

Happy Thanksgiving to all the other LCTers too.

We're going out, no turkey cooking happening in this little apartment kitchen.

hahahaha....and a Margarita to wash it down. :banana:

Marcie and JoAnn, your family trips will be wonderful. We will be a small group together this year and we've decided to go out and let someone else cook and clean up. :)
Happy Thanksgiving to you all.

You may ust have the right idea Betty!!! :D We will definitely be cooking. I have the turkey, stuffing, gravy and rolls. Son has the rib roast, (can you beleive that?) and daughter in law potatos and brocoli casserole, oldest daughter the apps, relish plate, deviled eggs, cranberry sauce and dessert, youngest daughter the rest of the veggies. I do enjoy all us girls in the kitchen with bloody marys or wine or whatever laughing and working together. Sons in law and Grandad are in charge of kids!!!

Peggy and Karen, hope you both have a wonderful holiday. Karen, love your idea for Marcie, taco with cranberry sauce.

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Our kids are in Portland OR, Hong Kong, Boston and Chicago just having one couple in for dinner - 19 lb turkey Tony likes left overs :rolleyes: mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, stuffing, gravy, creamed onions, rolls, guests bring dessert and veggies, and trying to go light on pre eats so don't get stuffed! Oh yes VINO!!!! Table is set and shopping done - just cooking left (all the work)...JoAnn I love idea of rib roast and turkey nice for large gang

I saw Joanna's table setting, Martha Stewart would be jealous, it looks lovely!!!

Thanks Karen Kimmi noticed name "John" on place card - asked where she was at table? I said right across from John...silly!

Happy thanksgiving to all! We all have a lot to be thankful for...one another for starters...hope it's a healthy one for all of you.

could not say it better Andi.......we are all blessed. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Already setting tables and making the rolls and pie crust. Kudos Joanna! I can just see your beautiful house all decked out!

Yes Joanna, that table is gorgeous....if i get myself together, I'll take a pic! Isn't this fun sharing! I'm doing 2 15# turkeys, one in the oven and one on the big green egg smoked. Get ready for exhaustion. Still fun though!

I love the idea of sharing dinner table pix!

Guess I'm a lucky girl, two dinners, one with family and later with friends. I like Marcie's get-away!
Cheers everyone

My sister's year to cook! We swap years and holidays so we each get a year "off". So 25 of us for dinner at her house. I got the appies and the wine! Happy Thanksgiving to all and safe travels.
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Helen

I'm up to 25 as well, and possibly 27.

A Very Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Older son and wife will be here (he's running the half marathon) and we'll go out for dinner. Next day he's coming over to do projects!

Well we have arrived at our cabin near Asheville. Its a really beautiful house, but its going to be an interesting challenge with 15 of us, as the house sleeps 12 max. Our youngest daughter and family decided to arrive a day early, so this will be an interesting test of how our family copes. I am mostly worried about Josie, as they will be sleeping in the downstairs area, but realized there is no door to close at the top or bottom of the stairs and the TV in the living room can be heard quite well down there. Maybe we won't be watching a lot of TV. LOL. She needs, dark, quiet and no noise. Aaaahhhhaaaa......hopefully she will be so tired at night that she will just collapse, but we all know that is not the way it works, they just get more hiped up and don't sleep even when they are just exhausted.

We will figure it out, yes, yes, yes.

Love your update JoAnn!!! Families coping so familiar!! You will have have a great time and remember when going gets rough "this too shall pass" XXOO how old is Josie??

Joanna - Josie is 2 1/2 if you can believe it. How time flies, it seems like just a few months ago when she was born.

Frank and I will go to the Biltomore Estate this morning for a few hours, then be back by the time Chris and his family arrive around dinner time. Everyone else will get here later this evening........the fun and chaos begin.

Happy Thanksgiving to all. May your day be blessed with happy times and your table full of goodies.

Wish we could have a reunion somewhere !!

Rod

Chaos is reigning here in Asheville!!! Chris and family arrived finally about 7 last night after driving thru a major rain storm. We were just getting dinner on the table when Laura and her family arrived, and although they had stopped to eat, the kids liked what I was having so everyone just crowded in and ate with us. We then sort of organized everyone as best we could and Julianne and family finally arrived around 11:30pm. I think other than Laura's kids, we all finally got to be around 1:00 am. Heard kids up around 7:30 and our day started. Just back from lunch in downtown Asheville, some are still shopping. It has turned quite cold and windy, about 45 degrees, glad I'm not the one who will be out on the deck cooking hamburgers tonight. I will try and get a picture of all the grandkids later and email it to Karen to see if she can get it posted.

Hope everyone is having a great day before Thanksgiving and enjoying the holiday weekend.

JoAnn, my daughter lives in Asheville and has a wonderful pottery store, Claying Around, for the kids. Lots to keep them busy with painting pottery, glass fusion and silver jewlery making. Keep enjoying Asheville, we love it there.

Happy Thanksgiving from Frank and JoAnn. The 7 grand kids.

Oh JoAnn, so cute!

A very happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of you!

JoAnn, the kids are all so cute!

Have a great day!

Aww, cuties, all of them! Best to you for a blessed Thanksgiving!

Really cute kids. We had Thanksgiving lunch at my house, all prepared by my Marine son (home at last) and myself. 11 people here. Including my 93 year old mom.

Rachel, you got a good son~ I don't have a veteran, but we sure had a good time here tonight with multiple generations! I was the cook, with some help from the in-laws, the good kind.

Had 16 for dinner. Everyone brought something. My nephew is in the Air Force and came for the 1st time in years. Been in Japan, korea, Germany & the Mid East. Thank God he is back safe. My daughter & I went to the strip shopping this afternoon. Vegas is VERY busy this weekend.

Gosh, we feel so fortunate to have everyone here in Asheville together, even though it was a rental. We had a total of 15.

But to those of you with sons/daughters in the service, our hats off with gratitude to you and yours. Thank you for your Children's service to help keep all of us safe.