Visit from the grandchildren

There is nothing quite like a visit from the grandchildren.  Another simple pleasure that money cannot buy.
We celebrated thanksgiving, Canadian style (in October) with a turkey and all the trimmings.  I made the ever popular "Senator Russell's Sweet Potato Casserole", which actually tastes like a cross between sweet potato pie and pecan pie.  My husband loves making the turkey.  Actually he just wants to make sure it tastes the best so he does it and I don't like to deal with it if I can get out of it although I do help him.

 The kids arrive for the day.  We are so blessed that we live so close to each other now that anyone can drive up for the day if that is all the time we have.  They arrived around 11:00 and we had an early Thanksgiving lunch around 2:00. They left around 4 or 5 that afternoon.

 After playing outside with the kids for a couple of hours everyone is ready to eat.  My son carves the turkey.

 It was a beautiful day.  Truly warm and sunny filled with autumn colors.  The kids loved playing outside.  We played hide and seek and a round of bocce ball and of course a trip to the grandparent's house would not be complete without a tractor ride and playing on the swing set and fort.

 It is difficult to play bocce ball when the munchkin keeps walking away with the pallino (the small orange jack) which is the target for the rest of the bocce balls.

 The family has become quite use to play bocce ball now and even our oldest grandson will ask to play it by name.  This was the first time we actually played with the baby.  We had to all be careful and slow up the game due to baby interference but we had fun.  It is called Bocce, the plural of the Italian word boccia, which means "bowl", traditionally played on natural soil and asphalt courts.  Of course we don't play it the way it is suppose to be done but we have a lot of fun.