company for dinner

Here is Margaret's homemade chocolate/vanilla marble bundt cake, and one of the apple pies we made today.....Margaret got to stay home from school today. She got out the cookbook, and wanted to try something new. I was already peeling apples for the pies, and had to peel squash, and potatoes, and clean, and take care of the kids....and she wanted to bake something additional! So, I let her. She did just fine. And, it tasted delicious. Sometimes you just have to give in. Her and I tend to butt heads a bit, but we had a good day together.

Here are Sam and Joe relaxing after our guests left..... Emily, doing a bit of homework....

Here is Charlotte Claire with Martin, a friend of ours, and my niece's husband's brother....

Here is my niece's husband, Thomas, with Evelyn and Suzanne.....can you tell he came from a family of 13?

Susan is having a baby in December, my sister's second grandchild....this baby is being fought over already, among the aunties, and the great-aunt....and the gramma....

Marius, a friend, holds Camille, who isn't too sure about him....

Well, just in our family there were 15 for dinner tonight, as Ben and Emily had classes., and Mariel is still in Canada...then we had 4 guests, so we had to bring in the Little Tikes table for a few of the little ones. It was noisy. The kids were so excited to have company, they were bouncing off the walls. They stayed up extra late, and will no doubt be hard to drag out of bed in the morning, but it was so worth it!!!