Thanksgiving 2011

We packed up the minivan and headed for Virginia Beach on Thursday morning. We missed all of the traveler traffic by sticking to Rt. 17 and were at the beach by noon. After unloading the van, we took off for my aunt's house, where we were greeted by Stephanie (my cousin), her husband Kevin, their two kids, Alexandria and Gavin, cousins Kristen and Kevin (both home from college), and Kristen's friend Randall who has family out of state and didn't want to travel. The kids all played together, except for Emily who crawled all over the house/yard and found delight in something we don't have at our house--a staircase.

Gavin hearts babies very much and gave Emily lots of one-on-one attention!

Kevin was the fill-in chef--he deep fried the turkey AND roasted the oysters.

Randall, Steph, Kristen, and Cammy

Emily had the best seat in the house.

And that was at least two hours of my visit--follow her up the stairs, and down the stairs, and up the stairs, and down the stairs....you get the picture.

We had a great laugh when Kevin pulled the turkey out of the fryer--it got a little "sunburn"! Even though the outside was chargrilled, the inside was pretty tasty.

Kids table!

Gavin was the first to conk out, and Steph couldn't help joining in.

The next day, we skipped shopping so that we could visit Mt. Trashmore. It has a big new playground and the kids got some energy out from the sugar rush the day before.