Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Monday, 14 October 2013

Happy Thanksgiving

I can't believe Thanksgiving has come and gone. We look forward to it all year, and it feels like it's over in the blink of an eye.
 
I am so thankful for so many things. First, my salvation, of course, because without Jesus life is empty. I'm thankful for my wonderful husband and beautiful children, my parents and sisters, my church family, my health...I could go on and on. God has been so good to me. He has given me so many of the desires of my heart.
 
I thought I'd give you a little peak into our day. We had a wonderful day together as a family.

still waking up at breakfast

doing some catching up on "brother" time after a three-week separation


She's becoming my right hand in the kitchen - she loves helping.

Caught!

more awake now

We tried something different this year. We put all of the main dishes in the kitchen buffet style so I could have room to decorate the table.

Family time - the best

Something I'm very thankful for this year - a new mixer from my wonderful husband.


"I'm not looking at the camera, Mommy." I love this little guy. He has grown up so much since last Thanksgiving. He has been my most challenging child, but he is incredibly sweet (when he's in a good mood~wink).

We ended our day with a walk to the park, then over to Timmies for a muffin. I love these times we spend together as a family storing up memories.
 
How was your Thanksgiving? Or if you haven't celebrated it yet what are your plans for making it special?

Saturday, 12 October 2013

Prepping for a Programme and a Winner

I am so sorry that I have not been here this week, but it was for a good cause. Tonight we had a Thanksgiving programme at our church. So I was preparing for that - music, food, decorations, designing and preparing a programme and SEWING. I sewed matching dresses for my two youngest daughters - at their request. It's nice that they still like to match. We did do different buttons on the front of each as a way of telling them apart. Here are a couple of pictures from our night which went so well. I forgot my camera in the rush to get out the door but my husband has a great one in his smart phone. :)
 


And now for the big news - the winner of the giveaway. I should have done this on Thursday. Sorry. First, the changes to my blog - the "About Me" picture, the Facebook and Pinterest buttons personalized to match my blog, the links to other posts and a different comment form. Only one person got them all right and coincidentally also won - Julie Geoffrion. Congratulations! You need to let me know now which one of the books you want. Thank you to all who participated.
 
I hope to get back to a more normal life in the next few days, but first there is Thanksgiving on Monday. Happy Thanksgiving all!
 
How was your week - busy, normal or slow?