THANKFUL

Kelsi, Hayley, Karissa

Thanksgiving dinner at the Johnsons.

Jacob, Grandpa Blake, Blake

Mindy, Bryan

Cousins!! :)

"I just want Turkey!"-Sam

Yes, he ate the ENTIRE turkey leg.

Checking out the ads for BLACK FRIDAY.
(Lisa, Julie, Jessica, Mindy, Kristi...
and Grandma, in the back doing dishes!)

Sam's new bike!

Dancing with our 'rockin' Santa!

(Jacob, Sam, new horse, Oreo, Kelsi)

WE ARE THANKFUL FOR...

"Family and the Gospel"-Bryan and Mindy

"Everything!" -Karissa

"Family, including Oreo. And clothing, shelter, and food, including ice cream." -Jacob

"Oreo." -Kelsi

"Jesus."-Sam

It was a GREAT thanksgiving week!--so fun to be with FAMILY. We had a wonderful THANKSGIVING DINNER at my sister, Julie's house. We enjoyed a mini vacation staying at the Johnson's for 4 days! I got to go to the BLACK FRIDAY shopping with my sisters and niece--so much FUN! The kids had a ton of fun with their cousins. And now we're just facing tears because they miss their cousins so much. But we came home with some great memories and souvenirs: a cute craft :) and all of our goods from shopping and Sam got a new bike from Uncle Dave!
Now we're trying to get back into the swing of things...but I'd take the vacation back any day!

We just got our Christmas decor out...and our traditional dancing with our 'rockin' Santa.

Kelsi had her first violin lesson today--from me :) She seems to like it...so far so good.

And we've also relieved a bit of stress...I took back 2 boxes of contacts today--thank goodness Maria was nice and let me...we now have a credit on our eye doctor account. Karissa decided she VERY MUCH DISLIKES contacts. She still has a box to wear occasionally, but at least we were able to take some of them back, and she's no longer under the pressure of having to wear them all the time.

Christmas is just around the corner! It's the most wonderful time of the year!