Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Buon Giorno di Ringraziamento!!!!

In preparation we did a little bit of decorating:

And God gave us a dusting of snow!!! ... though, by the time we had the celebration, it had turned to rain and been washed away. But it was beautiful and fun while it lasted!!!

Of course we prepared a LOT of food!!!

(We can testify to the A LOT part since now, we've been having leftovers for about a week! It's a good thing all the food was good!)

This year we doubled in size:

Angie and Giuliano with their girls Bea and Cate; Giovanni and Rachel with their little baby girl (who has yet to make her appearance); Joe and Laurie with their little Amelia; Paolo and Luiza with their new little 3-mos old Elia; Natalie and her girls Kennedy and Giada (Joe had to work), and then, of course, A&Z!

Thanks to Dad we had the annual Thanksgiving Quiz! It was a tough one this year... Here are Angie and Cate working together on the quiz ( =

Time to carve the Turkey!

Here's Zeno (holding the knife of course!), Joe (the one who knew what he was doing) and Giovanni (spectating and giving moral support).

The carving drew a few spectators!

Here's the girls' table:

Cate, Bea and Kennedy

Our friends Angie and Giuliano

Rachel and Natalie... eating!!! or, at least, preparing to ( =

Angie holding Natali's youngest: Giada

And then, there was the cleanup afterwards.... actually, thanks to paper plates it wasn't that bad! But we were both ready to kick up our feet and take a good rest after all the festivities.

What a GREAT time!!! I think we're going to make it a tradition... now, let's see, how can we fit everyone in next year....? and next year, we'll have the photographer going around a bit more to make sure to take more pictures of everyone during the party! We missed a few this year.