Thanksgiving in Atlanta

 We went to Atlanta on Tuesday before Thanksgiving and had a great time staying at Grammy's-there were cousins everywhere!

 and their musical instruments.  Above is King Kong-the tuba that lives at our house.  Thank goodness there is another one (named Gigantor) who lives at school.  I think a tuba would be a lot to manhandle on the bus-even for Scott.

 Katie is playing the clarinet now and we got them to play the same song together a few times!

 Abby and Maggie were playing Spot It

 Scott was playing an old trumpet of Larry's too

 Ashley and Maggie started out with their blankets arranged to be bird's nests and then decided they were treehouses!

 At the Sudderth Thanksgiving lunch in Norcross at the church where I grew up.  This is the fellowship hall where Greg and I had our wedding reception.

 Uncle Alvie and the triplets

 Uncle Dickey who is 91, below reading scripture-the one remaining Sudderth sibling in attendance today.  We have one other-Aunt Becky who lives in Birmingham and is 97 but can't travel that far any more.

 The kids table-our 3 plus Ian Gregory who wanted to join us and the Killingsworth triplets

 Steven running the video in front of the family picture quilt

 a cousin picture getting arranged by Jeanne-including Tim, Gail, Bob, Kay, Jan, Jeanne, Cheryl, Becki Ann, and

 Back at Grammy's eating again!

 We had a large group of family, friends, and neighbors here!

 Uncle Chris snuck away for reading that turned into a nap in the "jumping closet"

 This year the 9 cousins each bought a gift for one other cousin.  They were very excited about choosing something the cousin they were shopping for would just LOVE.  My boys have never had so much fun shopping at Hobby Lobby!

 It was fast and exciting!  The Gregory family will be in Alabama for Christmas this year so we opened early while we were all together!

 We were blessed with beautiful weather!

 canoe rides and no one got wet!  a miracle if you know some of these boys!

 Happy 65th ( hard to believe knowing that she ran a half marathon Thanksgiving morning!) birthday to Grammy.  The kids made a list of the 65 things they love most about Grammy and here she is reading them with the kids.  We had a great time together as always.

I should have gotten an our generation cousin picture since Melanie (a cousin who used to come with her 3 sisters and parents every year for Thanksgiving or the Elliotts would go to Ohio to their house) came with her mom, Debbie, and children-Emma, Claire, and Joshua.  We had not seen Melanie and Debbie in a while and never had met Mel's kids so it was super fun!!!!

So glad we will get to see most of them again in just a few weeks instead of having to wait a whole year!  Definitely one of the best things about being home!