Amber and Kylee kicking back before the big feast...
Our neighborhood Turkey Bowl that Russ put together last minute:
Can Rhett keep Russ from getting the pass?
Go, Drew, go!
Great smiles from my baby bro and baby sis:
Travis and Melanie
Oh, I am so glad Mom is making the gravy...I don't think mine from a package would have been quite the same as this made from the flavorful turkey drippings!
Great-grandpa overseeing Russ' turkey carving job...
Amber and Melanie striking a pose...Is this the "Blue Steel"?!
Crystal, Melissa and Travis
Melissa working on her gingerbread house --
This is a fun tradition Mom/Grandma started with us several years ago. She even painstakingly bakes all of the gingerbread house pieces and whips up the frosting which hardens into a cement-like substance to keep the houses solid through the Christmas Season (well, at least until we start picking at and eating them!). Everyone brings a treat-decoration to share, and then we go to work...
Now how fair is it that Crystal is a professional cake decorator?!
Her and Travis' house was incredible.
The crew with their completed gingerbread houses (this doesn't show the floor-to-ceiling mess we left in the process of creating such magnificent artwork!).
