Oakes Thanksgiving

We have just gotten back from spending a few days celebrating Thanksgiving with the Oakes side of the family. We all gathered at TD and Jen's new house in IL. It was a blast, tiring but so much fun. Ellis adored Henry and Alaire was smitten with Baxter (the dog) but I'm sure the girls will be her favorite next time around!
We went to a children's science museum one morning and they all had a blast. We ate lunch first and when Henry found out we were going he started telling Ellis all about. The two of them didn't stop conversing until they were forced to get in their car seats so we could drive there. 

Alaire loved the play house. She kept piling that baby stroller up with corn on the cob and cucumbers.

Ellis was  a fan of just about all of it but this was the only picture I was able to get of him because he was running from one station to the next.

Opa of course continued in his tradition of having some remote control/gadget kind of thing for all of the kids to play with. This time it was a remote control car that the boys were crazy over!!

Dinner was a huge hit with everyone. We ate so much for the first sitting that we didn't even get everything out again. Everyone ended up having pie for the late night "dinner."

The cousins...

Ellis 3, Meira 2, Aria 4, Mayzee 6, Alaire 1, 

Henry 5.

Uncle Jeff, Aunt Jennifer, Aria and Meira

Uncle TD, Aunt Jenny, Mayzee and Henry.

And last but not least, my favorite family photo. If you know any of the Oakes boys at all you know how fitting this photo really is. There are times when we are all together that every single one of these computers is in use.