Thanksgiving Weekend

We had a very nice Thanksgiving. On Wednesday, Aunt Rhoda Valentine and her boys, Jonathan and Nathaniel, and Julie Miller came by for a short visit and church on their way from Hobe Sound to Summerfield. Thursday morning, our family and Suzanne went up to Summerfield for Thanksgiving dinner. There were 16 of us for dinner: the 8 of us, Aunt Rhoda and her 2 boys, Julie, Suzanne, Sis. Horsely and Cheryl, and Aunt Esther. We had turkey, ham, mashed potatoes, acorn squash, squash cassarole, broccoli casserole, gravy, cranberry relish and jello salad. For dessert we had pumpkin whoopie pies, oatmeal cupcakes, blackbottom cupcakes and a yellow cake with vanilla/pecan icing. Everything was good. We had a lot of fun visiting. David, Jenny, Suzanne and I spent the night while the rest of our family went home. David and Suzanne got up real early so David could have Suzanne back in St. Pete by 8:00 am for work. He came back up to Summerfield and spent some time playing ball with Jenny, Jonathan and Nathaniel. Aunt Esther and Julie did some shopping but didn't go until about 9:30 am. Around lunch time the rest of the family came back up. David decided to spend the night again and the rest of us headed home about 8:00 pm. Friday Evening 11/24/06 Grace watches David hold Aunt Esther's Christmas Tree up while Andy checks out the base to see what is wrong with it. It is supposed to rotate but for some reason it would only rotate the tree part way and stop. If we would turn the tree to a certain spot it would continue rotating about 3/4 of the way around and then stop again.

Aunt Rhoda and Grace look on as Andy works on the Christmas tree base. He took it completely apart and we regreased the bearings.

Becky and David hold Aunt Esther's tree while Dale looks on.