Thanksgiving

We truly have a lot to be grateful for this Thanksgiving! We are blessed to have fared the tornado so well. We are blessed with a great church, family, friends and community to support us. We are blessed to be together as a family this holiday. And we are especially blessed to have Maryn, Kreg, Kamryn, Kenzi, Emersyn, Edyn, Casey, Lindsey, Carly and Holland here to celebrate with us!!

Our rental house has a tiny oven, so I didn't think I could make a turkey big enough for all of us, let alone all of the other traditional foods. So we decided to go to Golden Corral and let them cook for us :) It was actually a pretty good meal and there was no work in the kitchen cooking and cleaning! Being with family and not having to work...this was the perfect Thanksgiving!!

Everyone really wanted to help out at our house. So after our black friday shopping, which included the guys and kids buying and setting up a Christmas tree, we headed to our broken house. Luckily the basement has very little damage, just one broken window. So the guys vacuumed and barricaded the area that had glass, turned on a space heater, and voila we had a play room for all of the kids. The adults spent the evening cleaning and packing the upstairs so that I could start inventory of all the damaged belongings.

I'm very grateful for our amazing family who has done so much for us! It was awesome to have Maryn and Casey and their families here to celebrate with us and help us forget about our worries for a bit. The rest of our family has been very supportive and generous from afar as well. We are truly blessed with amazing families!!