Family, friends and food, OH MY!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

I had a full house for Thanksgiving this year!

My wonderful husband was in town for the week along with his three teenage boys.

As boys tend to do, they just fought all week.....

They took turns in Kevin's sparring suit called a FIST SUIT....

Then it was Dad's turn to get in the suit..

Then they moved from land to sea and had a rousing good game of NOODLE WARS!!!

On Thanksgiving Day we had some friends over for dinner and the hounds, of course, enjoyed the constant attention.

Luke found a friend as always...

FYI: Our friends here, Jackie and Mike,

will be adopting their first greyhound this weekend!!!!

YAY!!!

We had planned on eating outside on the patio but, alas, the 3 o'clock sun was a shinin' right into the patio and no one wanted to be in the direct line of fire.

(It's a hard life in Miami)

After dinner and dessert, we had a nice round of night swimming.

Complete with heated pool....

(check out the steam coming off the pool..aaahhhh...)

And after all was said and done, Strut ended up with the hambone.

Kevin got a wild hair and decided to bleach his hair blond.

(I guess it is true when they say that husbands and wives

eventually start to look like each other)

Here is me, Jasmine and Luke

enjoying some quiet time by the pool...

Even Sandy got some me time in during the week....

While the boys were here, we took them to the zoo which is all decked out for Christmas.

The Elephants were very active that day

and were enjoying playing in their pool with their ball...

The monkeys put on a good show for us too...

We even got an x-rated show by the Howler Monkey.

A great father and son shot...

...aaawwww...

The Parting Shot:

I love this picture of Luke in front of the Christmas Tree.

I gave it a light antique finish and I think it reflects him well...