Nov. 19 evening - 28 Mesa, AZ.

This week we enjoyed family time with Ev's sister and her family, including Thanksgiving Day.  This was our first Thanksgiving together since 1979 and the last major holiday together was Christmas in 1989.  We ate at a restaurant's patio one night and enjoyed the view after dark.

Saguaro cacti don't grow arms until after they are 100 years old

sunset in the distance from the restaurant

Lexi ("my name is spelled Alexis") is 5.  Her hair is to her waist when it is wet.  Ella is 10 months and almost ready to walk

Linda and Bob's 4 grandkids-Olivia is 13, Quinn 11, Lexi 5 and Ella 10 months

Whenever Lexi and I are together she uses colors , uses stickers or whatever for me to send in the boxes I mail to soldiers (she says shoilders).  She learned more about soldiers when several came to her classroom on Veterans' Day.  She told her mom there was even a woman soldier.  She was so surprised to learn that Linda's daughter-in-law was a soldier.

We had dinner with Tom's brother, Mike, and his girlfriend, Sherry Wednesday.