Pierce and Max on their flight to OKC on Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving

When Seth, Angela, Pierce and Max landed, they let us know they were hungry, so we met them at Casa Perico for lunch.

Our mesero, Heriberto, to a photo for us.

Seth got out with the boys to toss the football for a while after lunch and I joined them. Then with Jeremy, Cindy, Devon and Zeke came in, later in the afternoon, we went out again.

We went out to dinner and there was a shuffling of kids and Max and Devon rode together and arrived first.

Angela enjoyed seeing what Devon had done with a photo of Pierce using an app on her phone.

These two were beginning to look sleepy.

The "app Pierce" and the real Pierce

Zeke gave in to sleep.

Grandma and Grandpa took a selfie.

Back at our house, Devon wanted to make a mask. I gave her an inside-out paper sack and cut some holes in it and she drew on it and added an unusual special touch--grapes for eyes and teeth.

The monster revealed

And back into costume

Seth and I had gone out for a needle to air up the football earlier and we picked up a couple of jigsaw puzzles, a "seascape" for Pierce and "birds" for Max; we started working on the birds first.

And another monster is born.

If there ever was a zombie apocalypse, the Davis clan would probably not survive; no one seemed to be paying attention to the monsters in our midst.

When we got near the end of the puzzle, the kids took over.

And they finished it.

The grandkids with their creation

To make sure we noticed, they carried it around for all of us to see.

Then they sat down and admired their work.

"Normal" Grandma

Monster Grandma

Some of us played a new game.

Pierce was ready for a little rocking.

Thursday morning, we gathered at our house and caravaned to Heather and Jon's for Thanksgiving dinner.
Nathan, Luke and Joseph

One thing to be thankful for was Heather and Jon's roomy house, since it was gray, cold and misting rain outside.

The weather did not keep the kids from getting outside.

Susan was washing dishes while some of us were going back for more food.

Ruthie tells Mom a secret.

Between the main course(s) and dessert, we got outside for group photos.

After the photos, some of the kids burned off calories playing with the football.

Caleb showed Devon how the "flying carpet" swing worked.

Samuel seemed to have the swing mastered.

Everybody's talking about something

Heather and Seth start cutting the pies

Jon had a new container in which to cook the cheese cake and it seemed to be a hit.

Jon explains how he did it.

Samuel and Caleb give the other kids a demonstration of how the swing works.

And still they all wanted to try it.

Nathan, mid-swing

Caleb instructs the others to stay back.

Samuel explains what can happen if you don't stay out of the way.

Luke's turn

Samuel rides the swing "magic carpet" style.

Zeke takes a turn.

Vicki asked the grandkids to write down what they were thankful for.

Devon enjoys some warm apple cider in one of the porch hammock swings.

Jeremy kept them busy.

Vicki explains a new project to Kathy...

...mukluk puppets!

Catherine treated us to music.

Samuel also played a song.

Then they played a duet.

Despite all the eating that went on earlier in the day, we weren't far into the evening before Jeremy and Seth made a run to Whataburger for a snack.

At the end of the evening, Grandma played Bananagrams with some of the kids.

Friday morning we all went to First Watch for breakfast and they had place mats that inspired art work.

Seth posed for Devon as she tried her hand at a drawing-on-the-right-side-of-the-brain-style portrait.

The rest of the kids made their own artworks.

We asked our waiter to take a group photo for us before we left.

We took all the kids to our house while Jeremy and Cindy went to their hotel to pack, and Seth and Angela packed at our house. We used our time to play some more Hedbanz!

And so ended our 2019 Thanksgiving celebration