Here comes Chirstmas

It is the end of another year. Where did the time go? I love this time of year! Here is a weekend recap. Thanksgiving was wonderful Family, friends and food!! Thanks for all that came we loved having you here!

Mom and Lilly making dressing and John showing off Steph's rolls. Thanks Steph!!

Lilly holding baby Haylie. She loves her.

All the boys did the dishes so us girls could do a craft. All the girls did this. I think it turned out cute. Thanks to my friend Erin for letting me use her paper cutter.

Kevin having his Thanksgiving nap behind the couch so no one can find him.

Max is enjoying his pumpkin bars. YUM Shannyn!!!
On Saturday we all went out to John and Shannyn's for some more fun and shopping. Yeah for outlet malls!! We headed out to see Christmas lights, the above photo is of our family picture. most of your family picture look like this now a days.

And for my favorite part of this weekend, Christmas time is here!! And that means I put out my willow tree Nativity that I have been waiting for a whole year to put up. I love Nativities because the represent the reason we have Christmas, the birth of the Savior. It was gift last year from my in laws. Oh how I love it!!! Thank you so much. Here it is all set up and here is Lilly playing with it.

CAMPING

I'm grateful for
17 a healthy body.
18 Prayer
19 My Brother JOHN!!!
20 Visiting teaching
21 A fun ward to go camping with.
22 A washing machine and warm showers
23 MUSIC and SINGING
Here are some pictures of your fun weekend. We loved camping. It was great all we had to do was sleep. The ward did all the food. It was dinner on Friday night and a pancake breakfast on Saturday. Here are the kids loving the dirt.

We slept so well that night, can't you see that everyone is in a great mood.

Max is helping with the tent. His job was to pick up the stakes.

The family of happy campers.

15 A super clean garage
16 Sunday pancake breakfast with sausage of course.

there is more

I'm behind # 10 Lilly and her awesome outfit that she picked out herself

#11 Birthdays
#12 The Temple
#13 The Office the only must watch show every week
#14 the people I work with make it work fun

A little nature walk

We made it on little nature walk Saturday. The weather is beautiful!!! I have 3 days to make up for...
7 My parents they celebrated 33 years on Friday. I'm forever grateful for the lessons I have been taught, for a loving home and safety you have given me.
8 I'm grateful our earth. Just breathtaking.
9 Church. I taught my first RS lesson today. It was really unsure how it would turn out. Thanks for the Spirit. I think it went well.

I was impressed to find out that Lilly is making great progress in school she doing so well in learning the letters and sounds. She is learning other things as well, like this..

blessing 6

I can't stop now blessing 6
Amber!!! I don't know what we would do without her!!! I'm grateful her acts of selflessness and her willingness to help my family.

NOV 4th and 5th

NOV 4 Win or loose I'm grateful for my country, where there was a peaceful change of power. I had no fear of civil unrest, we do live in a blessed land.

NOV 5 My house!

airplanes and gratitude

On Saturday we went to our little airport for an open house event. We walked along the landing strip and got to see, sit in, touch, planes, helicopters and fire trucks. Only bummer is that I didn't plan for the 90 plus weather and Max and Lilly got tired fast. Good thing that the Everett clan came to the rescue. They bought the kids a snow cone the seemed to clam them in the heat.

Can you tell what Lilly is saying here? NO Mom! I don't want to take a picture.

They are planing their trip to Mexico.

Max sitting in the plan holding his football. Oh what a happy boy.

This brings me to the second part of my post. It is now NOVEMBER. I knew it would come way to fast. I wanted to make sure that I made the most of the Thanksgiving holiday and try extra hard to count at least 1 blessing a day. Big or small I just want to show a little more gratitude for the blessings in my life.

Starting November 1. I am so grateful for Ann and Ted Everett. Not for just helping out on Saturday but for the profound influence they have had in my life and Kevin's. Bro Everett was Kevin's scout leader and Sister Everett was in the stake YW. Their examples have shaped our lives for the better

NOV2 Siting in Stake conference it hit me. I have it all! My little Family is the greatest thing that has ever happened it me.

NOV. 3 So grateful for my car. I haven't had any problems (knock on wood).I'm just grateful that I have it.

Any of you 2 readers want to play the grateful game just post one thing that you are grateful for everyday. Hook me up with your links so I can read your list too.