November 26, 2012
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Thanksgiving weekend was truly a weekend filled with thanks-giving. As we sat around the table on Thursday, the official day for thanks-giving, we all shared what we were thankful for. A few of the thanks shared were:
Hearing Aids, Family, Friends, a great teacher to work with, in-laws, friends to vent with, vacations to visit family and more. Nathan read the Proclamation of Thanksgiving that George Washington wrote and we ate until we couldn’t eat anymore, at least until the pies were brought out in the afternoon! Joining us for the day were Roger and Mary Drayer, Pete, Heather and boys, Erin and Nathan, and the Lewis family; Cody (who has lived with us over the past few months, and a year ago); his wife, Stephanie and their five little ones, Annie, Ain, Kataya, Soren and Andrew. I told them they are stuck with being friends with us and they didn’t seem to mind, they just moved here from Albuquerque.
Erin and I spent Friday and Saturday sewing and working on Christmas projects. It’s so nice to have a daughter who loves to make things and forces me in a very loving way, to join her. 
I love creating things, especially when I can do it with someone by my side. It seems though that because of the busyness of life my creative side gets pushed aside. I think that is why I love to bake so much, it brings out the creativity side of me.We had a lovely supper Friday evening at Beth and Paul’s and Greg and Kathy joined us. It was good getting caught up with them. Sunday when Erin and Nathan got ready to leave their car wouldn’t start, so Doyle, Nathan and Peter spent all day fixing the car. They left this morning a day late. Because they left a day late they were able to join us on Sunday for our weekly dinner with Pete and Heather and boys. Pete and Heather have dear friends, Wes and Bailey from Arkansas and they came to visit them for a few days so they joined us too. They have five beautiful, bright children; Josiah, Anna, Noah, Isaiah and Elijah and another one due in January. Anna (age 5) asked everyone at lunch to quiz her brothers and herself on the Tolkien books, and so Nathan asked them some hard questions. They were able to answer almost all of them in the first book or two, they haven’t quite memorized all of the books yet.
They are 7, 5, 4, 3 and 18 months old, so they have a few years to get polished on the Tolkien books. Erin was a life-saver on Thanksgiving and Sunday afternoon with all the kids, taking them outside to run and play and inside drawing pictures. The kids all have a new favorite person I’m sure! 
