Happy Thanksgiving!

Very grateful for my little family on this Thanksgiving day! Hope your day was filled with food, pie, family & love!!!

Thankful Notes

For a sweet Thanksgiving present, each grandkid got a special letter filled with compliments about them individually. Plus a cute little turkey treat! These are the sheets of all my kiddos. Thanks so much for your kind words!

Thanksgiving at the Rasmussens

Thanks to Lori & Lou for hosting Thanksgiving dinner. You're the best! We were able to squish 46 lovely people around the table for a spread of fabulous food. Miss you Shauna! Thankful for all these wonderful people!

Victoria & Halle made the most adorable name tags for the dinner table. They found the idea online & FaceTime-d to decide a plan. They designed the shapes, cut them out, wrote all the names in cursive, & stuck them in pine cones they both collected. So cute!

Mrs. Sharbono's Thanksgiving Play

Mrs.Sharbono puts on a Thanksgiving Play every year. Glory's class did a awesome job today! We're thankful everyday for what a wonderful teacher Glory has. We love her! ❤️

Glory had lots of parts. She was a pilgrim girl who sailed on the Mayflower, learned to dance in Holland, and was grateful to God for answering her prayers in spite of living through a blizzard! She always was the cutest Statue of Liberty you ever did see! Love this girl- her smile, her memory & her voice. ❤️

Glory memorized what is written on the Statue of Liberty. She sang a solo part in the Thankful Song. She also helped sing the State Song & America. Love this play!

Glory's Statue of Liberty part:

Glory's solo part in the Thankful Song:

Thanksgiving with the Tubbs & Lynchs

Our friends, the Tubbs invited us to celebrate Thanksgiving with them this year. We had fabulous food! Our girls were the only girls there so Liberty hung out with the adults reading a book. But the little girls brought finger knitting and enjoyed watching the boys play games. The adults laughed and enjoyed each others company. And Brett even got in a little football nap! Fun times! Thanks dear friends for including us in your day!

Headless Turkey Feast

Thanksgivings Past

When I was a novice Scrapbooker, I started a scrapbook for each Holiday. The idea behind it was that we would pull it out during each of the Holiday festivities and remember all the years past. Such a cute idea! Go me! I even scrapbooked every Holiday from our younger years to our first Holidays together- all the way to 2004.
This past week, I have been looking through my old Thanksgiving scrapbook. I realized that the transition period between these amazing scrapbooks I started and when I commenced blogging got jipped. SLACKER!
I decided that I needed to remedy that. I pulled out piles of pictures from each of the missing years. But then what???? Unpack scrapbooking supplies- ie. scissors, paper, stickers, glue? Oh heavens NO! Way too much work! LOL So I scanned in pictures and went to work in my scrapbooking program. I finished up 2005 to 2008. Then discovered I would be way sad if I just ended the Holiday Scrapbooks there. So, I pulled things off my blog and got all caught up (using my journaling from my blog as well)!!! I called around and found a copy place that would print them for me for a really good deal. And magically my Thanksgiving Scrapbook is complete! I'm so excited!!!!
To get you all caught up from 2005 to 2013, here are my Thanksgivings past! Enjoy! ;) [You can click on them to see them larger]

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2013:

Happy Thanksgiving! Love the memories!

It came from a store...

Before we got invited to our friends for Thanksgiving, we toyed around with ordering our Thanksgiving dinner from the Albertsons' Deli. We saw an ad for a complete dinner for around $50. Because we are in this tiny apartment and we are new in town- it just made sense to have something quick and easy.
It will probably never be appropriate again so...
Even after being invited for a REAL dinner- we decided to go ahead and try it! We had our neighbor over tonight and enjoyed our Deli Dinner! Not too bad!

Lay's Turkey Bowl & Pie

Thanksgiving morning, Brett & Justice joined the Lay family (along with others) for a Turkey Bowl Football Game at EVMS. Everybody made it back without a trip to the ER. Yeah!!

After a fabulous Feast with the Coils- In the evening, we rejoined the Lay family for Pie and some games. So yummy and such great friends. Thanks guys! We are grateful for you in our lives!

Grateful Turkey

Since we couldn't get out our Thanksgiving decorations, we decided to make our own. Our resident artist, Victoria made a large turkey for our wall. Then we all cut out tons of feathers. Every day leading up to Thanksgiving, we wrote things we were thankful for on a feather and added them to our wall. It turned out really fun!

Glory even made her own tiny Turkey. So cute!

Thanksgiving with SHAY

We joined my friend SHAY and her family for Thanksgiving Lunch this year. It was extra fun because her dad & step-mom were there. Every time they would say, "Shay....?" I would answer. LOL It got to be pretty funny so they finally just started calling their Shay- "Gertrude". Hilarious!

We had a fabulous dinner! Shay (the original one) made the most amazing Rainbow Jello Salad. It was a masterpiece! Everything was so delicious! The missionaries joined us for lunch as well. And we didn't even kill Elder Burrows with our gravy. Go me! [He's extremely allergic to tons of things!]

 We are grateful to the Coils for having us over. We had a great time!