The Lion House Thanksgiving tradition started years ago when the grandchildren were young. Sometimes, I had Thanksgiving at my house and sometimes the boys went to the in-laws and sometimes they went to two dinners in one day, which is ridiculous.
So I suggested we have Thanksgiving dinner on Friday night at the Lion House, the day after Thanksgiving and not invite the children. My thinking was that the grandchildren could experience Thanksgiving with the other grandparents and we could have a grownup dinner. I know it sounds incongruent to have a family dinner without the family. I know some eyebrows were raised, but it turns out that everyone liked it a lot. We invited a few other people just to mix things up a bit.
After skipping a couple of years--parents died, kids moved away, we once again met at the Lion House last Friday night, only this time we invited the children. Tom rented a million dollar lens and took some pictures. I am placing some of them here, because blogs are eternal.
The Pittsburgh Plummers, Ed, Dede, Rian, Samantha and Hank are painfully missing.
Jonathan and Julie with Liam and Katelyn
Charles and Erica with Mira, Anne, Harrison and Maxwell
Sam and Sarah with Elliot and Louis
Elliot with Louis being Louis
The beautiful Ann-Katrin
The cousins: BR: Harrison, Maxwell, Louis and Anne
The old dames: Janie (my sister) and I
The gorgeous Erica
FR: Mira, Liam, Katelyn and Elliot
The old dames: Janie (my sister) and I
The gorgeous Erica
Wish we had been there! We miss all of you terribly!
ReplyDeleteAwesome pictures. I love that all of you are in party clothes. Or are they church clothes? No. Let's say party clothes. What a good-looking bunch of people.
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