We rolled into Las Cruces on the Saturday night before Thanksgiving to find that our children and grandchildren had arranged an early Thanksgiving celebration just for us, on Sunday. We also discovered that, with their busy lives, our random appearances in their fair city mark the only times all of our extended family gets together, so it was also a family reunion of sorts. Of course, we also took time to visit as many individually as had time for us in our brief stay.

Here’s a photo gallery of some of the folks we cherish and are thankful to be part of our family:

We missed a few, who could not be at the reunion. We also gained a few, notably Ricardo and his dad, Rick, who are part of Kristi’s life now.

We managed a bit of quality time with our son, Jason, a busy restaurateur, by catching him between shifts, for breakfast and dinner.