HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!

Do any of you ever feel guilty for being thankful? I know that sounds really strange to think about, but when I think about all of the things that I am thankful for, I start to feel guilty for being so blessed. I feel guilty because there are so many people out there who are hurting; hurting for reasons that I can only imagine what it would be like to go through. Yet, here I sit, in my wonderful home, with my wonderful husband and kids, spent the day with my wonderful family, and all of the other wonderful things that I have been blessed with...health, job, husband's job, healthy kids, great neighbors, I could go on and on. And what did I do to deserve all of this? NOTHING. God loves me so much that He has blessed me with all of these. All I have to do is live for Him to the best of my ability. Now don't get me wrong, that is no easy task. There are days when living for Him is further from my mind than others ( I AM human, ya know), but what an incredible feeling to know that God has my every thought, fear and desire in His hands and is blessing me all the while. Thank you God for all of the blessings in my life. The blessings that are so obvious and the blessings that I may not realize yet are blessings.

Today was spent at my Uncle Mike and Aunt Nona's house with my Grandmother, parents, brother, aunts, uncles, and cousins. We all had way too much to eat but enjoyed the fellowship.

HG riding "Cisco"

Carter riding "Chocolate"

The Dalton's vs. The Preston's

HG and Savannah (her cousin)

Granny and the kids playing

Catching up...

I can't believe that it has been so long since I have posted. I get caught up in reading everyone else's that I forget to post on mine.

We just got back from having dinner with Tim's mom. Today is her birthday. She is 66. She would kill me if she knew that I just posted her age on here.

We are all trying to stay warm. I can't believe how cold it is getting. I have to say that I prefer summer over winter any day. But I had better bundle up and wait until it's over.

We are great, the kids are great. I hope all that are reading this are doing well too. I am posting some pictures of miscellaneous things: the kids acting crazy, Carter at the pumpkin patch, and Bobcat prowl at GES. Until next time...

Fall Fun

My parents kept the kids today while Tim was sleeping and I had to work. I got there to pick them up and they were playing in a pile of leaves in their back yard. The kids were running and jumping in them like they were a bottomless pit. I was thinking about how fun it would be to do that myself, but, holy cow how that would hurt for days on end. Isn't it amazing how our bodies change and we wouldn't even consider doing some of the things that we did when we were kids. I guess that's one of the reason we are given children is to remember how wonderful those days were and to cherish them with our kids.

Halloween

Well, a great time was had by all. Our family tradition is that we all go to my mom and dad's for hot dogs and desert, then on to EVERY single house in the neighborhood. Tim's mom, my grandparents, Scott and Christie and kids and pretty much anyone else who wants to come is there. We eat, feed the spooks, see all the family and cousins and of course get enormouse amounts of candy. Thanks mom and dad for the wonderful memories!!