Setting the table. This picture shows a partially set table.  Some people were a little hungry and put food on their plates before it was officially time to.  We ate at 6:30 pm and they were ready for the food that's for sure.  Bruce made the cranberry and pumpkin breads this year.  The cranberry bread was perfect!  It looks very festive too.

This centerpiece features pottery Suzanne made in her high school pottery class.  The cover on it fits the little pot perfectly too. Not so long ago, I had filled up a whole box of pottery the girls made in high school.  I set each piece ever so gently down in a box and then when I went to pick the box up, it  slipped from my arms and crashed to the ground.  I set the it aside on a shelf in our garage and haven't looked in the box yet.  I thought I'd let some time pass so it wouldn't be as painful.  Something may have survived, though, don't you think?

For dessert, we had carrot cake decorated by Suzanne and Janine.  This is also their birthday cake as they both have a birthday in November.  The cake was decorated using a video game theme.  They had fun doing and I had fun listening to their plans.

Janine is the character on the left--scary...  At least she's holding a bow and arrow.  Suzanne looks like she's holding a machine gun or something.  I like the dolphin, though.

It's always nice to have help in the kitchen! 

Suzanne and Janine opened their birthday gifts. 

We play games when we get together.  The only fair way to decide what we will play is by drawing for it.  The highest card chooses what we do.  The picture was taken of Janine, but look at my card.