{Thanksgiving}

We had such a wonderful Thanksgiving!

We were able to travel down to South/North Carolina Thursday morning and spend the weekend visiting with Dad's sister and brother who only live about 40 minutes from each other.
Aunt Bonnie had to work on Thursday and we had to travel down Thursday as well, so they decided to celebrated Thanksgiving on Friday at Uncle Paul's house.
As always, they completely outdid themselves! There was more than enough food and it was all so delicious!


Uncle Paul made 1 smoked turkey and 1 deep fried turkey.
They were both gorgeous and tasted amazing!


Cutting, cutting, cutting.


Aunt Bonnie cooking away


Briana using her new culinary skills to make some very pretty and yummy deviled eggs.


Time to eat!


Evan watching Frosty the snowman.....it was pretty intense!!!


Playing Yahtzee...


...and Scrabble.

  

Aaron, Dad, Cyndal and Uncle Paul playing Corn Hole

Evan and Katrina

  

Evan and Aaron

It got a little chilly in the evening!


Evan and Melissa fishin'


Briana was showing us all kinds of cool stuff she is learning in culinary school.
How to section an orange.


All of her "tools"


A rosebud made out of a tomato - by Briana.


On Saturday, some of us did some gluten free grocery shopping with Aunt Bonnie, and Dad helped Uncle Paul put up his outdoor Christmas lights and decorations.


Chicken Wings for Saturday night

                       

Bloomin' Onions and French Fries to go with the wings.

Dinner on Sunday


Sunday night after church, Aunt Bonnie had an ice cream party.
Aunt Beverly's daughter, Barb, was in from Washington, and they were all
able to come over. It was so nice getting to visit with them.

           

Amber made such a yummy Breakfast Monday morning.

Evan and Kelley fixing a flat tire!

Thank you, Aunt Bonnie, for letting us stay at your house and for all of your hard work in fixing all the food and everything else you did!!
Thanks, Uncle Paul for the yummy food you made!
Thanks, Amber, for the amazing breakfast on Monday! I'm going to need those recipes!
There's nothing better than spending Thanksgiving with family!

We hope everyone has a wonderful day!

"So we thy people and sheep of thy pasture
 will give thee thanks forever:
we will shew forth thy praise
to all generations."
Psalm 79:13

{HIS}

Trust - in HIS timing

Rely - on HIS promises

Wait - for HIS answers

Believe - in HIS miracles

Rejoice - in HIS goodness

Relax - in HIS presence

"Draw nigh to God and

He will draw nigh to you..."

James 4:8

{A Great Party & A Great Visit}

Khara started selling Thirty-One bags, so she came down and did a party for us on Friday, the 9th . It went really well and we had so much fun! It was also great to get to spend some time with her, Timmy and Zoey (we missed you, Tim and Abbey)!

Playing Tinker-Toys

Such pretty, curly hair!!

Zoey loves her books!

Food made that "girl party" all worth it!

"Let me see, Timmy!"

The party went really well! Thanks so much to all who came and bought!!

Telling her daddy goodnight!

"I can hear him in there, but I can't see him in there"

Dad wasn't able to see them at all Friday night, so they came back over first thing Saturday morning.

Pappy and Timmy going to get some coal.

Kaleb brought down some puppies from were he works...Zoey was SO excited about them!

She hummed and said "aw" the whole time she was holding them!!

They sure loved Timmy!!

And loved them too!!!

Zoey wanted to go for a ride!!!

"Me?"

"Mom, I have one to match Pappy!"

:)

It was very close to Zoey's birthday, and we weren't going to be able to see her until after her birthday, so we went ahead and gave her all of her presents.

More hair stuff!

"Are you sure you know what you're doing?"

"Mmmmmmm, this is delicious!"

Khara and Zoey went to Jenna's for the afternoon (Khara was having a Thirty-One party for her too), so Timmy stayed with us for the rest of the day. He was so excited to play in the snow, but it was super warm that day and he didn't have snow clothes. So he would go out and play until he was soaking wet; then wait until we dried his clothes in the dryer and go back out and play. He did this 3 or 4 times!!!

Katrina - jumping onto her sled

"Here, Trina, let me help you"

Making the head for the snowman

"Zoey, the snowman" (Timmy named it)

Timmy thought that my warm neck would be the perfect thing to warm his hands on!

Hot Chocolate!!!

"You better watch out!"

Timmy found Lego heaven!!

Showing Nana how to use his new iPod

Eating some ice cream while watching CARS2!!!!!!

Thank you guys for coming!

We loved getting to spend lots of time with you and can't wait until our next visit!!