Thanksgiving with the Konyn Family

I love Thanksgiving with my family! We always celebrate Thanksgiving with the Konyn Family on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Though it is a lot of work getting it all ready (for 36 of us this time!), all us girls do it together and we enjoy visiting as we prepare the feast.

The day always reminds me of my mom. Probably more so because Thanksgiving six years ago was our first holiday without her. We celebrate at the house she and my dad built and I always think she should be there in the kitchen she designed and was so proud of. But I know she would love seeing us all together enjoying it. She always said she built the house for us all to enjoy and she and Dad (and my brother, Duane, who built it) did a great job of that! It was a great day ~ my only complaint was that it went by too fast!

The head cooks: Amber, Me and Jenn

 Selene & Gabrielle helping in the kitchen, too! Can you believe they are three years apart in age?

Selene, Gabrielle & Searra

 Dishing up!

Chad, Me and our baby at her first Thanksgiving

 

Amber (22 weeks pregnant) and Mary; hard to believe I was pregnant last Thanksgiving!

David and Amber

Pretty daughters with their pretty mom (Searra, Mariah, Jenn & Denisha)

 

Genevieve LOVES her Uncle David

Me with my oldest and youngest

 

Relaxing watching some football

 

Genevieve and her sweet wave

 

I was a little tired at the end of the day!