Thanksgiving 2006

Gma and Gpa spent Thanksgiving morning trying to get 12 chairs around the big table and WE DID IT!
Butch has a nice beard. The Whalen boys all look handsome and healthy. The Burka girls and Stacy are more beautiful every day. Rose is so funny when she talks about living alone for three months while Paul is in Ireland. She will quit brushing her teeth and let her nails grow long..she pulled her hair down in her face and changed in front of our eyes while she was talking about it...Joquita brought some amazing food...The pound cake was out of this world. Paul fixed flaming sweet potato casserole. It was so spectacular that alarms went off in the house.

People were trapped around the table after they ate and so we had a long talk before dessert was served. We had fun talking about Christmas..Everybody had an opinion so we voted: drawing names for a $10.00 Christmas gift won. Laura took charge and passed the basket of names and mailed the remaining 6 to Nashville. Laura will send a Christmas menu to everybody later. Rose may bring some personalized stockings for cards or very small items ... this is optional.

We had fun with our grand-dogs. They liked each other until the unfortunate incident of Teddy finding Carson eating out of Teddy's bowl. We kept them separated the rest of the day, but we are hoping they will make friends at Christmas. If not, we have four floors so we can keep a pet on each floor. Lizzy is invited to stay in the balcony with Scott. Teddy is afraid of Rose's cats so there should be no problem.